{"id":9379,"date":"2018-11-13T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/?p=9379"},"modified":"2018-11-16T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:49:07","slug":"matt-worsnick-leads-curation-seminar-trip-to-new-york-city-october-25-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2018\/11\/matt-worsnick-leads-curation-seminar-trip-to-new-york-city-october-25-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Worsnick Leads Curation Seminar Trip to New York City October 25-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2018\/10\/bookcoverMoMAexhibition.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9425\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2018\/10\/bookcoverMoMAexhibition.jpg\" alt=\"bookcoverMoMAexhibition\" width=\"280\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><em>From the sculptural interior of the White Mosque in rural Bosnia, to the post-earthquake reconstruction of the city of Skopje based on Kenzo Tange\u2019s Metabolist design, to the new town of New Belgrade, with its expressive large-scale housing blocks and civic buildings, the exhibition examines the unique range of forms and modes of production in Yugoslav architecture and its distinct yet multifaceted character. <\/em>(The Museum of Modern Art\u2019s \u201cToward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Worsnick, assistant professor of the practice of art history, and students in his advanced seminar and exhibit course, &#8220;Exhibiting Historical Art: Architecture at MoMA,&#8221; recently returned from New York City where they viewed MoMA&#8217;s exceptionally designed show, \u201cToward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980,\u201d and met with members of the curatorial team. In their seminar the students are investigating both the curation of the exhibition and its subject matter, which Worsnick describes as &#8220;the philosophically intricate, sometimes surreal, often spectacular architecture produced by the communist state of Yugoslavia during the Cold War.&#8221; As a Mellon Foundation Fellow in MoMA&#8217;s Department of Architecture and Design, Worsnick worked on the exhibition and contributed to a companion volume published to coincide with the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more about the class trip in a <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2018\/11\/lillian-boyle-reflects-on-highlights-of-class-field-trip-to-new-york-city\/\">blog post<\/a> contributed by Lillian Boyle, a Vanderbilt graduate student pursuing a masters degree in the department of history of art.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2018\/11\/curationseminargroup-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9461\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2018\/11\/curationseminargroup-.jpg\" alt=\"curationseminargroup\" width=\"611\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the sculptural interior of the White Mosque in rural Bosnia, to the post-earthquake reconstruction of the city of Skopje based on Kenzo Tange\u2019s Metabolist design, to the new town of New Belgrade, with its expressive large-scale housing blocks and civic buildings, the exhibition examines the unique range of forms and modes of production in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":9461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,1,20,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-hart","category-news","category-studentalumni","category-vanderbilt-university","category-vrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9596,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions\/9596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}