The MFA in visual arts program at Columbia is by reputation one of the best in the country, and it’s almost certainly the most expensive, with annual tuition of $63,961. Yet the art studio building suffers from burst pipes, flood damage on the floors, crumbling ceilings and walls, and poor heat, and the star faculty members that lure students turn out not to be there. 51 of the current 54 students in the program have demanded their tuition fees back – and the university provost agrees that the program is a “disgrace” (though he won’t refund the money).
Tag: 04.30.18
Menil Collection’s New Drawing Institute Has Solid Opening Date
“The Menil Drawing Institute, which has looked so enticingly ready for months from Richmond Avenue, will open Nov. 3 with an exhibition of works on paper by Jasper Johns that has been almost as highly anticipated. The now-official date falls more than a year after the Menil Collection initially planned to open the world’s first building dedicated to modern and contemporary works on paper.”
‘One Of The Most Innovative, Influential Magazine Art Directors Of The 20th Century’, Art Paul Of ‘Playboy’, Dead At 93
“During [his] tenure as art director, Playboy won hundreds of awards for illustration and graphic design and influenced the visual appearance of scores of other magazines and newspapers. … In addition to designing the look of the magazine” – including the bunny logo, one of the most recognized corporate logos on earth – “Mr. Paul hired artists to create original paintings and illustrations. He commissioned work from Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, LeRoy Neiman, James Rosenquist and Shel Silverstein, telling them their work should reflect the spirit of the article and should stand alone, without need of a caption.”
Tarantino, Streep, Gyllenhaal, Other Stars Say Weinstein Co. Owes Them Millions, Object To Bankruptcy Sale
Director Quentin Tarantino, whose relationship with the Weinstein brothers goes back more than 20 years, claims that he’s owed well over $4 million in royalties for his four most recent movies; numerous major film actors say they were never paid promised back-end profits from their Weinstein-produced titles. All are objecting to the bankruptcy sale of the company, fearing that the transaction will leave them unpaid.
Hundreds Of YouTube Channels Discovered Promoting Academic Cheating
Popular YouTubers, some as young as 12, are being paid to personally endorse the service. In some of the videos YouTubers say if you cannot be bothered to do the work, EduBirdie has a “super smart nerd” who will do it for you. The adverts appear in videos on YouTube channels covering a range of subjects, including pranks, dating, gaming, music and fashion.
Why Did Famed Gibson Guitars Go Bankrupt?
Faced with the prospect of paying off $500 million in debt—while tech giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon enter the speaker market—Gibson was forced to file for Chapter 11. Luckily, this doesn’t mean rockers won’t be able to replace the Gibson Les Pauls they smash on stage. The company reached a deal with its debtors that will let it continue to make its iconic guitars, as well as the other musical instruments it sells under brands including Baldwin pianos, Wurlitzer, Dobro, Epiphone, KRK, and Cerwin Vega.
The Great Shame: How Universities Exploit Academics For Their Labor
“Volunteer adjuncts” — it is a term so absurdly reprehensible it sounds like the stuff of parody. Despite what graduate students may gain over the course of their studies, they owe nothing whatsoever to their university. After all, there’s no reciprocity to be found when health insurance is still, for many in academia, considered a plush amenity.
Are Comic Book Heroes Killing The Movies?
I don’t want to sound like an old stodgy codger (even though I am an old stodgy codger) but it seems to me that this lack of narrative finality really hampers the genre. Like video games they can be stimulating and exciting, but only at the expense of denying the emotional engagement other forms of art offer.
14 Jazz Musicians Release a Code Of Conduct For The Performing Arts
In early 2018, We Have Voice began painstakingly crafting the Code of Conduct via meetings, email and Google Hangout sessions, with members collaborating from the far-flung locations where they live and work. The code’s “SAFE(R) spaces” is a term that espouses intersectionality, an acknowledgment that the definition of “safe” shifts according to race, class, and gender and their interdependent systems. If this sounds grimly pietistic, the We Have Voice Collective itself practices intersectionality as joyful action. Encompassing a range of ages, ethnicities (Caucasians are a distinct minority), cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations and career trajectories, the group has fostered a distinct esprit de corps.
Canadian Tax Agency Reclassifies Artists As Hobbyists, Disallowing Deductions
“It is the determination of this audit that the taxpayer operates as a personal endeavour (a hobby), not a business,” Canadian Revenue Agency said in its Jan. 26, 2018, reassessment letter to Steve Higgins. “Most of the income generated is from grants, honorariums and awards, and not the sales of artwork. Therefore, all income and expenses related to the business has been removed.”