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The New School · Art & Art History

9.2% of The New School's Art & Art History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Art & Art History departments, it is 3.8%.

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The New School: 9.2% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison

Where Art & Art History courses fall

1%Far left92–100
24%Left75–91
65%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
136 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

LVIS 3018 · Capitalism & the Crisis of Contemporary Art94

Art & Art History

It has been suggested that, “[i]t is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism.” What role can art play in anti-capitalist struggle today? If the practice of art was once thought of as a realm free from the alienation…

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LVIS 2054 · Black Secret Technology: The Moral Economy of Science and Art92

Art & Art History

This course surveys contemporary art, sonic technologies, performance, the social responsibility of science, and how forms of systematic knowledge emerging in the 19th century forged new categories of difference. The convergence of…

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PLSD 4071 · Senior Seminar: Reverse Utopia/Obverse Dystopia-Overview of the Contemporary Crisis of Urban Visions90

Art & Art History

After the many ‘good’ visions of perfect cities have turned to an evil reality, how can we fail to imagine the reversal of the optimistic views about social directive and revolving modernization? The optimistic illusions of a perfect place…

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Furthest right

None. The New School Art & Art History has 136 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
The New School · Art & Art Historybias_left_share9.2—1,486—
Art & Art Historybias_left_share3.83.5 – 4.214,866—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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