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The Utopia of Art

Composition as construction of an alternate reality

July 5, 2015 • by Zachary Sunderman

[A]nd so there was, during “4’33”,” the marking down, the scribbling of pens and pencils, and the whispering of teenage ADHD cases, and the occasional cough (which cough has to have been the most consistent instrumental timbre across all the myriad performances of “4’33””), and then gradually there was consternation among the ...

Art is the Social Condition: A Proposal for the Marriage of Art and Sociology

June 2, 2015 • by Dominique Suberville

Somewhere at the beginning of the course on the Social Condition, Jeffrey Goldfarb asked us: what is politics? This question aligned with several key issues as our class attempted to explore the meaning of the social condition. Granted, months later, its definition continues to be a shape-shifter, but we’ve turned the question into a ...

How I Got Over

December 5, 2014 • by Vince Carducci

Like most people in the arts, for many years I supported my artistic activities, along with the rest of my life, by holding down a day job. Corporate communications and advertising primarily in financial services were not such a bad gig, actually, and, in fact, were what I trained to ...

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