• Date:11/01/2022
  • Meeting Info:  We will be meeting at the Schwartzman building, the New York Public Library on 42nd Street at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street

Class Info

Topic

Field Trip to the New York Public Library, the main research library in New York City. We will be viewing Polonsky Exhibit. We will be viewing the exhibit in person as well as viewing it online using the Bloomberg Connects App.

Objectives

  • Make connections between our past two classes and the use of color in this exhibit
  • Get inspired by the objects, Concepts and Techniques used in the Exhibit
  • Explore the Exhibit on your own using the Bloomberg Connects App.

Discussion/Lecture

For a look at a different sort of virtual exhibit, let’s take a look at the Blue Exhibit which was held at the Nassau County Museum back in 2020 and focused exclusively on the Color Blue.

Blue is, in surveys, the most popular color. And, according to the Radio Lab broadcast on color, it was also not present in the Greek epics to describe the sea–instead, we had the wine-dark sea of the Iliad. That podcast explained it was a later entry to language than other colors.

But today, it is very popular and has many different shades and it is used to represent authority, security, and serenity. Tiffany had long use Tiffany Blue for its branding. The iPhone introduced a Pacific Blue:

Research on Color has shown that Blue has a calming effect on the Viewer so let’s get mellow and go together virtually to the Nassau County Museum of Art.

After we’ve visited Long Island, let’s head to  Fifth Avenue to the Cooper Hewitt:

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Lab/Critique

• If we did not finish seeing all the visual quote projects, we will continue our critique of project today.

To Do

You will need to do add to the blog entry begun in class describing your virtual field trip experience. For further details, see Assignments/Week Eight