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, [...]