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This Weeks Must-See Art Events: The Art World Mobilizes for 2017

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on January 3, 2017

For everyone who has complained that the art world is too apolitical in the past month or so, take note of how 2017 is kicking off. We have a week of feminist exhibitions, the start of a month-long project about Trump’s America Saturday at Petzel Gallery, and shows that tackle topics from water contamination to the holocaust and the attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

Welcome to the art world in the Trump era. If the list of participants at Petzel’s event is any indication, the big guns are coming out.

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Should I Get An MFA? The 2016 Edition

by Rea McNamara on January 21, 2016

Back in 2011 AFC asked the question, “Should I get an MFA?” At the time we leaned towards “No”. There were a number of reasons cited, the most pressing being that we believed it was too expensive and most artists could get the equivalent experience in the real world.

Five years later, has much changed?

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Wednesday Links: Even the Grim Reaper Can’t Evade Arms Dealer Security Forever

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on September 23, 2015

The grim reaper is chased around the grounds of an arms fair.

A protester dressed as the Grim Reaper was forcibly removed from the DSEI Arms Fair, the largest of its kind. To enter, he scaled a 12 foot fence while carrying a scythe. All this lead to our favorite headline of the week: Security Guards Chase ‘Death’ Around World’s Biggest Arms Fair Before Forcibly Removing Him. [Mirror]
Fanny packs are back. This from Jaimie Lowe over at the New York Times Magazine, who has made an impressive argument for their enduring qualities. It’s more than just another pocket, it’s a place to put all your mental baggage. It’s an anchor. It’s a great place to store pop-tarts and condoms. [The New York Times Magazine]
Another report from the Times’s Scott Reyburn that reads like it’s about ten years old. Reyburn has learned that public funding for museums is shrinking and wealthy people with collections are opening up museums. It’s old news that oddly pits the Broad collection against that of Damien Hirst’s. [The New York Times]
Le Freeport, the uber-dystopian concrete art bunker by the Luxembourg airport designed to exploit tax loopholes, is predictably weird and controversial. [The Wall Street Journal]
Cheech Marin, of “Cheech & Chong” fame, has an extensive collection of art by Mexican-Americans. Who knew he was a collector? The touring exhibition Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection just opened in South Texas. [Corpus Christi Caller Times]
Finally, maxi pads for dolls. [The Toronto Star]
No tourist’s trip to Philadelphia is complete without an Instagram of Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture. Now, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is displaying Indiana’s 1998 translation “AMOR”. No, this wasn’t a curatorial jab at the anti-immigration discourse flaring up in the presidential primaries (disappointingly). It’s to welcome the Pope to Philly. [ABC6 Philadelphia]
The Enemy has just released its third edition and OMG, there is some great reading in here: an unpublished interview with Chris Burden from 1980 with David Robbins. BFAMFAPhD examine their own findings in Artists Report Back asking, “When the 1.3 trillion dollar student debt bubble bursts, will the government bail out indebted students, as they previously bailed out banks? We fear that they won’t. What will we do in this next crisis?” [The Enemy]
Artnet has released its Global Chinese Art Market Report. The report only covers last year, so we won’t learn how the stock market crash has affected sales. Still, the downturn had already started and that’s evident here. The sell through rate for Chinese art and antiques has plummeted since 2011 (or as they say in the business world, the market is going through a “cooling period”). [Artnet]
Corinna Kirsch suggests that online artists are more inclined to mime out happiness. In her guide, she identifies several artists doing just that. [Art21]

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Liveblogging “Artist as Debtor”: a Conference on Artists Under Capitalism

by The AFC Staff on January 23, 2015

Now liveblogging “Artist as Debtor”, a conference on a now all-too-familiar topic of art school debt.

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Dueling Reports: Is the Post-Art School Job Crisis Bullshit?

by Whitney Kimball on October 22, 2014

Does art school lead us to the fulfilling creative life we all hoped, or is it the most expensive possible qualification for a dishwashing job?

Such are the very different pictures of life after art school, painted by two opposing reports: one by the collective of arts alums BFAMFAPhD’s “Artists Report Back”, and another by the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) “Making It Work”. In the introductory letter, SNAAP Research Director Steven J. Tepper wonders “how we can serve our students and graduates better as they transition from school to work?” BFAMFAPhD asks: “If we are not supporting ourselves as working artists, what jobs do we work?”

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This Weeks Must-See Art Events: The Art World Mobilizes for 2017

Should I Get An MFA? The 2016 Edition

Wednesday Links: Even the Grim Reaper Can’t Evade Arms Dealer Security Forever

Liveblogging “Artist as Debtor”: a Conference on Artists Under Capitalism

Dueling Reports: Is the Post-Art School Job Crisis Bullshit?

BFAMFAPhD: New York City Artists are Predominantly White

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