Online Class Offerings
About Our Virtual Classes
ArtsMuse offers virtual classes via Zoom on a variety of art and culture topics. Classes run approximately 90 minutes, depending upon discussion. No art history background is necessary to attend or enjoy. Sections are capped at 25 students to keep things intimate.
Cost: $30 per class. To secure your spot, you must register and pay. Payment can be made using a credit card (Visa or Mastercard) or Pay Pal in the registration section, or directly through Venmo or Apple Pay.
Zoom links are typically sent out the evening before class - or shortly after you register if it’s the day of. *You may register up to 30 minutes before class.
*Register and pay for classes by clicking on specific time/date links below. If that date/time doesn’t work with your schedule, you can always purchase a video. Most previous classes are available on video for purchase. To see what we’ve offered in the past, click on ArtsMuse classes (2020-2025).
Or, if you want me to repeat a topic for your group, in-person or online, let me know. We can make it happen.
JUNE & JULY CLASSES
JUNE
MARCEL DUCHAMP’S (ANTI-)ART HISTORY LESSONS
Tuesday June 9 at 5:30 PM EST - OR - Wednesday June 10 at 7:30 PM EST
An art-world provocateur and father of conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) is probably most famous for one of his “ready-mades” entitled Fountain (1917), a store-bought porcelain urinal, which the Dada artist turned on its side, dated, signed with a made-up name: R. Mutt, and submitted to a supposedly jury-less art show in New York. (Understandably, it was rejected by the organizers). Inspired by MoMA’s current Marcel Duchamp retrospective, our class will consider several of Duchamp’s most radical and irreverent works/gestures in order to explore his enormous impact upon a younger generation of artists emerging in New York and Paris during the 1950s and ‘60s, including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Yves Klein, and others.
JULY
TALKING ABOUT JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER
Tuesday July 14 at 5:30PM EST - OR - Wednesday July 15 at 7:30PM EST
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was a cosmopolitan celebrity, dandy, and ardent proponent of the credo “art for art’s sake.” His provocative personality and experimental aesthetic approach – frequently emphasizing Japanese influences, tonal harmonies, and musical correspondences – elicited strong reactions (pro and con) and even led to an infamous court case/face-off with art critic John Ruskin around the meaning of painting. Today, of course, Whistler is valued as one of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A current Whistler exhibition at London’s Tate Britain provides a wonderful excuse for us to examine the life of this feisty figure, who re-wrote the rules of what it meant to be an artist in the Victorian Age, and to revel in the innovative and beautifully evocative images of modern life the artist produced against the grain of his own time.
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), L.H.O.O.Q., 1919. Pencil on postcard applied to paper, 7.8 in × 4.9 in.