This 90-minute lecture presents a survey of contemporary art, tracing the multitude of media beyond painting, sculpture and photography to video art, installation art, performance art, digital art, feminist art, conceptual art, art&language, sound art, etc.  This plurality of media that fill the contemporary art landscape can be dizzying and confusing to folks desiring to "grasp" contemporary art. This lecture will provide you with a comprehensible overview.

This 90-minute lecture examines how Abstract Expressionism as a distinctive American painting style, was leveraged and used for propoganda by the CIA to promote the idea that America was the world's super power. 
The government funded international exhibitions after WWII as a way of showing off to the world America's greatness and its embrace of ideals like freedom and individuality both evident in the style of Abstract Expressionist painting.

This 90-minute lecture was given on the occasion of Robert Rauschenberg's MOMA retrospective in 2017. The course takes you on a journey through Rauschenberg's creative life looking at the multitude of media with which Rauschenberg engaged in art making as well as his homosexual relationships with Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns. 
Rauschenberg's critical role in the history of post-war art is explored so as to not only pigeonhole him as the bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, but more significantly, seeing him as the artist who blew open the doors for contemporary art and might be seen as responsible for the vast plurailty of media that now make up the contemporary art landscape.