Assignment #3 (in small groups of 2 or 3 students): "The Art of Choosing." From the list below choose a) one theatrical performance and b) one major exhibition. In addition, select any other visual or performing arts event (from my list or outside of it, complementing your a & b choices or in contrast to them). Prepare a short group report for presentation to your colleagues (in class and on blog) due Dec. 1. And then write an individual response paper on some specific aspects of this experience due Dec. 7. A planning statement (i.e. what, where, and when do you plan to see/ attend, and your reasons for specific choices) is due 11/10. Performances: The Public Theater: • Suzan-Lori Parks, Father Comes Home from the Wars, dir. by Jo Bonney 10/28 – 11/16 425 Lafayette St. at Astor Place • Young Jean Lee, Straight White Men , dir. by Y. J. Lee Nov. 7 – Dec. 7 [David Byrne & Fatboy Slim. Here Lies Love, dir. by Alex Timbers through 12/30] Lyceum Theatre: • Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced, dir. by Kimberly Senior, opened Oct. 23 149 W. 45th St. nr. Broadway Neil Simon Theatre: • The Last Ship with a score by Sting & a book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey, 250 W. 52nd St., nr. Broadway dir. by Joe Mantello, opened Oct. 25 Pershing Square Signature Center: Signature Theatre: • Katori Hall, Our Lady of Kibeho, dir. by Michael Greif Oct. 28 – Dec. 7 480 W. 42nd St. nr. 10th Ave The New Group: • David Rabe, Sticks and Bones, dir. by Scott Elliott opens Nov. 6 Theatre for a New Audience: • Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Part I & II, dir. by Michael Boyd Nov. 1 - Dec. 21 Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater: • Sarah Ruhl The Oldest Boy, dir. by Rebecca Taichman, opens Nov. 3 Lincoln Center BAM – Harvey Theater En Garde Arts: • BASETRACK Live, created by Edward Bilous & dir.by Seth Bockley Nov. 11 - 15 651 Fulton St., Brooklyn St. Ann's Warehouse: Kneehigh: •Tristan & Yseult adapted and dir. by Emma Rice Nov. 16 - Dec. 14 29 Jay St., DUMBO, Brooklyn

Circle in the Square: • Jez Butterworth, The River, dir. by Ian Rickson (with Hugh Jackman) in previews, opens Nov. 16 1633 Broadway at 50th St. New York Theatre Workshop, • Ayad Akhtar, The Invisible Hand, dir. by Ken Rus Schmoll prev. begin 11/19, opens Dec. 2 79 E. 4th St. at 2nd Ave, LES Metropolitan Opera: • John Adams, Death of Klinghoffer, performances on Nov. 5, 8, 11 & 15 (mat.) Lincoln Center Joyce Theatre: • Complexions Contemporary Ballet, choreography by Dwight Rhoden Nov.18-30 175 8th Ave, between 18 & 19 St.

2 Major current exhibitions: The Asia Society: • Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot (Sept. 5, 2014 through Jan. 4, 2015) 725 Park Ave at 71 St. International Center of Photography:• Sebastião Salgado: Genesis (Sept. 19, 2014 through Jan. 11, 2015) 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd St. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA): • Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor (Oct. 4, 2014 through Jan. 18) 11 W. 53rd St., b. 6th & 5th Ave • Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (Oct. 12, 2014 through Feb. 8, 2015) The Guggenheim Museum: • ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s (Oct. 10, 2014 through Jan. 7, 2015) 1071 5th Ave, at 89th St. • V. S. Gaitonde: Painting as Process, Painting as Life (Oct. 24, 2014 through Febr. 11, 2015) Metropolitan Museum of Art: • Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection (Oct. 20, 2014 through Febr. 16, 2015) 1000 5th Ave, b. 81 – 83 St. The New Museum: • Chris Ofili: Night and Day (Oct. 29, 2014 through Febr. 1, 2015) 235 Bowery, Nolita, Lower Manhattan • El Greco in New York Nov. 4 through Febr. 1, 2015 at Metropolitan Museum of Art [+ mural by Thomas Benton Hart & tapestries by Pieter Coecke] & the Frick Collection (1 E. 70th St. at 5th Av) [+ Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery]

Some helpful reviews On Matisse: Barry Schwabsky, Pictures of Icarus, The Nation, October 10, 2014; Holland Cotter, Wisps From an Old Man's Dreams, NYT, October 10, 2014; Peter Schjeldahl, Shapes of Things, The New Yorker, October 20, 2014; on Cubism: Roberta Smith, It Was Hip to Be Square, NYT, Oct. 17, 2014 Peter Schjeldahl, In With the New, The New Yorker, October 27, 2014; on Nam June Paik: Holland Cotter, Hitchhiker on an Electronic Road, NYT, Sept. 5, 2014 on Gober: Roberta Smith, Reality Skewed and Skewered (Gushing, Too), NYT, Oct. 3, 2014; Peter Schjeldahl, Found Meanings, The New Yorker, October 13, 2014; on Ofili: Roberta Smith, Medium and Message, Both Unsettling, NYT, Oct. 31, 2014; Jason Farago, An Artist Speaking Proudly for Himself, The Guardian, Oct. 30, 2014; on ZERO: conversation with the curator, Valerie Hillings: First Look, Apollo-Magazine, Oct. 7, 2014