Feb 5, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese Proverb I think often about the teachers I have had; those that seemingly had little impact on my life and those that, to this day, have never faded from memory. The teachers that...
Jan 29, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
When the right questions are asked about the conditions for producing art, of which the production of great art is a subtopic, there will no doubt have to be some discussion of the situational concomitants of intelligence and talent generally, not merely of artistic...
Dec 11, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
I was attracted to art that was as transformative as possible; indeed, I thought this was what art was. You took life and turned it, by some charismatic, secret process, into something else: related to life, but stronger, more intense and, preferably, weirder. Julian...
Dec 4, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
No longer do we accept the ‘sublimation model’ according to which ‘the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high. Rosalind E. Krauss, October 56,...
Nov 27, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
The experience of art itself is a social function. Richard Serra Richard Serra is an artist whose career spans multiple media and approaches to artmaking. He is perhaps most well known to a particular public as the architect of the infamous Tilted Arc project in New...
Nov 20, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
How do we learn? Further, how do we learn to be artists and educators to others that desire art as a way of life? The cultural moment we live in right now should be making us all take a step back. It should be making us all ask more of ourselves and our colleagues,...
