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The Legacy of Artists at LA’s Otis College, Which Turns 100 This Year

by Lorissa Rinehart October 8, 2019October 10, 2019

In its early years, Otis’s success rested on the intersectionality of its students who also came from a diversity of creative fields.

Posted inBooks

The Art School Roots of Pop Music’s Legends

Avatar photo by Aida Amoako May 22, 2019January 11, 2021

In How Art Made Pop and Pop Became Art, Mike Roberts charts the extraordinary reciprocal relationship between art schools and pop musicians.

Posted inBooks

Learning To Be a Painter at 64

by Ilene Dube May 30, 2018

After retiring as a professor of American history from Princeton University, Nell Painter embarked on a new chapter of her life: to become a practicing artist.

Prentis Hall (photo courtesy Columbia University)
Posted inNews

Columbia University MFAs Share Stories of Dysfunctional Studios and Overworked Faculty

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Benjamin Sutton and Zachary Small May 11, 2018May 11, 2018

Current students and recent graduates of the revered program reflect on a series of internal crises that have come to light.

Posted inComics

Critiques You’ll Hear in Art School

by Jack Sjogren February 22, 2018February 21, 2018

Most of the feedback you get in art school is helpful, but not all of it.

The main building of the Memphis College of Art (all photos courtesy Memphis College of Art)
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After 81 Years, Memphis College of Art Will Shutter Due to Debt and Falling Enrollment

by Shelby Black November 15, 2017December 22, 2017

While many remain optimistic that the school could remain open, it would take a miraculous $30 million endowment donation to make this possible.

Posted inArt

How the Art World, and Art Schools, Are Ripe for Sexual Abuse

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco November 14, 2017December 20, 2017

The art world is structured in a way that enables abuses, and the problem is especially acute at art schools.

Posted inArt

The Time Edward Albee Almost Bought My Painting

Avatar photo by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech July 5, 2017July 3, 2017

As a clichéd Gen X art student, I was too arrogant for my own good.

Posted inArt

A Viral Video Sums Up Art School

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino May 11, 2017

A video taken at CalArts and posted on Twitter yesterday beautifully distills art-world indifference.

Posted inArt

More Than a Year After the Dissolution of the Corcoran, Its Art School Still Struggles in a New Home

by Elena Goukassian December 17, 2015December 18, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC — Maeve McCool vividly remembers when she first learned that the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the conjoining Corcoran College of Art and Design would be no more.

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Photographer Alec Soth’s Winnebago Workshop Takes Arts Education on the Road

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 3, 2015November 17, 2015

“Moving through the world brings the world alive,” Alec Soth told Hyperallergic. “I considered myself a photographer for about a decade before I seriously started traveling. Once I hit the road, everything changed. I found I could more deeply connect with the people and places I encountered.”

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In Mexico City, a New Design School Campus Signals a Shift for a Scruffy Neighborhood

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton October 21, 2015October 22, 2015

MEXICO CITY — The opening of a design school campus is hardly news in the US — nor is their mass closing, for that matter — but in Mexico, where institutions devoted to training students for careers in media and the arts are few and far between, it’s a big deal.

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