On September 28th, Honors Art Seminar students traveled to the Walker Art Center to see the highly-anticipated exhibition And This Will Have Been: Art and Politics in the 80s before. Filled with works by Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat and other artists of the 80s, Upperschool Art Teacher Linda Brooks and Bob Jewett led the group of students through the exhibition.

While traveling throughout the exhibit, the students were asked to discuss and analyze three pieces in the exhibition. In class later on, each student talked about the piece they analyzed and discussed other interpretations of each artwork.

Held in the Target and Friedlman Galleries at the Walker Art Center, the exhibition features pieces and works prominent of the 80s. “Throughout the 1980s, a series of ruptures permanently changed the character of the art world. Art veered between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art-historically aware. Even as Reaganomics dramatically expanded art as a luxury commodity, postmodernism further challenged the very status of representation and shifted artists’ sense of their role in society. This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s surveys these and other developments with more than 100 works, including paintings, sculpture, photography, video, audio, works on paper, and documentary material by some 80 artists,” said Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Helen Molesworth in the exhibition’s online introduction.

Honors Art Seminar students will also be attending the Walker’s After Hours: Alter Ego, the opening reception for Cindy Sherman’s retrospective on November 9th.