MariaAragon64
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Self taught artist and 'indie' author.
https://www.mariaaragon.com/
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Joined Mar 2020
(She urged prospective female applicants to read the Burns Halperin Report to see how little progress has been made in recognizing female artists.)
“What happened to exploring what kind of artist you want to be?”
Cronin agreed. “The rush to get into the market is bad,” she said, stressing that art school should be a place to find one’s voice. What’s more, she said, female graduates have more than once come to her years later to report that their male counterparts have all achieved success that still eludes the women.
Fawundu decried what she called the “pick me” attitude she sees in students who are dying for access to the David Zwirners of the world, calling the mindset “dangerous.” How about instead bringing something new to the world, she asked? Higher education can put you in a room with people from all over the world who want to change things, to flip the script, she said, but she is distressed to see students instead thinking about what size painting is most salable.
The morning’s panelists threw cold water on that idea. Petrovich pointed out that the artist collective BFAMFAPhD found in a 2014 report that just 10 percent of two million arts graduates nationally make their primary earnings as working artists.
The MFA was once a terminal degree that artists earned in order to gain a teaching job, part of a kind of arms race among artists seeking a secure lifestyle. (More recently, there’s even a fine art PhD.) But these days, the panelists reported, too many MFA applicants see the degree less as a means to teaching than an investment in fame and a money-making career in the care of a major gallery.
Reviews are in for the Turner Prize’s 40th exhibition at Tate Britain, and they run the gamut. The Times’ calls it “once the enfant terrible of art prizes, it now feels dated and desperately struggling to be down with the kids.” Or there's The Guardian’s more measured praise for “several arresting moments, in a show filled with cultural collisions, shifts in register and wildly divergent intentions. Business as usual, then.” [The Times, The Guardian]
On Saturday, Tibetan groups protested outside Paris museums, accusing them of “erasing Tibetan culture.” The protests follow an editorial in Le Monde by researchers who allege the Musée Guimet and the Musée du Quai Branly are caving to Chinese pressure to remove the name “Tibet” from museum texts, and replace it with terms such as “the autonomous region of Xizang,” a Chinese designation of Tibet recently enforced by a 2023 law, or the “Himalayan World.” [ Le Journal des Arts]
Playing with pigments, trying to shake an idea loose....a Faerie face.
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Over the past week, men have been draping baby slings on famous male statues across London and Edinburgh to raise awareness of the U.K.'s paternity leave policies and advocate for more paid time off for new fathers.
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Cards Against MuskRAT:
"How did this happen? Elon Musk's SpaceX was building some space thing nearby, and he figured he could just dump his shit all over our gorgeous plot of land without asking. After we caught him, SpaceX gave us a 12-hour ultimatum to accept a lowball offer for less than half our land's value. We said, "Go fuck yourself, Elon Musk. We'll see you in court."
MariaAragon64
- Artist
- Author
Self taught artist and 'indie' author.
https://www.mariaaragon.com/
My novels are available via Lulu.com and Amazon.com in hardback, paperback and kindle.
Joined Mar 2020