that mfa is worth even less than you thought
for those of us who teach
Deirdre was going through some old stuff from grad school and came across a student’s quiz where they’d been asked to define “art canon”:
‘Art canon’ means one who creates art excessively. It is he who makes artwork that is both stunning and explosive (hence, the word, ‘canon’). It is the artist that makes work that [...]
it is just me?
Simone Leigh, White Teeth, A Piece for Ota Benga (detail)
Now, I’m hardly an apologist for the art market, in fact, I rail against it all the time, but what articles like this fail to acknowledge is: how do artists earn a living? Creativity and alternativity have never been lacking, you ask me. And as we [...]
art *can* hurt you
In the past week and a half or so I’ve been to 3 art thangs—quite rare for me—and part of me was thinking, hmmm, maybe I should turn this into an art blog and critique the stuff I go see and hear. It would go something like this:
01.24.06 Martin Parr–SFAI, sponsored by Photo Alliance. Great [...]
this is when i love art (and this is when I don’t)
Check out Bill Fisher and Richard Lou’s “Missing Stereotypes” project about runaway race-baiter Jennifer Wilbanks @ http://billfisher.dreamhost.com/nohate.html. It’s smart work that was censored courtesy of friends of the Wilbanks family. A comment on their site excerpted from a letter to the Gainseville Times:
I guess racism, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Wow. Yeah, [...]
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- Taking a Break February 4, 2012Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
- A New Mission for Aperture? February 4, 2012[…]
- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 4, 2012Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]