These museums regularly feature contemporary art exhibitions of international stature: the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA.org), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA.org, especially its onsite contemporary-art building BCAM), the UCLA Hammer Museum (Hammer.ucla.edu), the Getty Center (Getty.edu), REDCAT (Redcat.org), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (welcometolace.org), LAX ART (LAXART.org), the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA.org), the Museum of Latin American Art (molaa.org), and The Broad Museum (thebroad.org).
2) Choose one of the following theories of art: formalist or postmodernist. Material not yet discussed in class is off limits and will not receive credit.
3) Write an essay in which you evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the theory�as defined by Terry Barrett in Why Is That Art?�for understanding or experiencing that particular work or exhibition. How does the theory help and how might it hinder understanding of that work or exhibition? Make sure you have a clear thesis and support your argument with sound evidence from the relevant chapter in Barrett as well as from the work you�ve chosen.
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