Monday, November 8, 2010

General Announcements:

• Reminder: There is no school for students this coming Thursday, 11/11 (Veterans' Day) and Friday, 11/12 (Professional Development Day).
• All materials left over from Day of the Dead ofrendas need to be taken home ASAP!
• We need tissues! Cold season is upon us and we need nice tissues for sore noses. If every Prism family donated one box of tissues, that would almost certainly get us through the worst of tissue season.

Math:

• Grade 7 & 8:
  Due Tues., 11/9:
  • Work for another 20 min. on the Math League sheet you worked on today. This will include at least 5 problems.

Language Arts:

• Due Tues., 11/9: If the Venn diagram for your essay has not been completed by the end of the second LA class, it is to be completed for homework.

Social Studies:

• Due Tues., 11/9: Revise/edit your 3¶ summary of timeline research. Your revised version should be typed, double-spaced, and 12 pt of Times New Roman or similar font.

Science:

• :

Spanish:

• Grade 7 & 8:
  • Nada

Moment of Zen:

Hidden Art Gallery

When most art galleries put up a new show, the opening is a grand event aimed at helping the artists' work get sold; the show hangs for weeks in a well-lit public location, then is replaced by something new. Not the Underbelly. This unique display space, which puts aside the usual characteristics of an art gallery. Located in an abandoned, unfinished tunnel of the New York subway, it's virtually inaccessible. The space's custodians are trying to keep its whereabouts on the downlow because, well, they aren't really supposed to be there either.

So what's the point? The group wants to challenge the commodification of art, which in the last decade or two has grown to legitimize and, therefore, commercialize street art. They look to reclaim its outrageous, illegal secrecy.

Click above to read more about the development of the idea and the process of creating the art in the space.