Sotheby's NewYork Study Away

6-12 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course is taught at Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York and is open only to AMUS students. The Contemporary Art course emphasizes connections between dominant ideas of the period and visual languages of art. We study the development of the American art market, visit commercial galleries, auction houses, private collections and public institutions to become familiar with their differing characteristics and functions. Issues in aesthetics and art theories are related to works currently on view in New York. Students who enter in spring semester will be given outlines and reading lists for background preparation. The spring semester emphasizes 1980 to the present, emerging media and markets, art law, and research methodologies.