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Article: Art schools: a group crit: a range of issues confront today's booming art schools and university art departments: What skills should young artists acquire? Should they be shielded from the art market or connected to it? Who needs a studio PhD degree? Here, 13 educators, artists and scholars offer their divergent views.
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- Art in America
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- May 1, 2007
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Thankfully, some might say, there are not great numbers of artworks about art school. So, it's a surprising coincidence that two compelling works on the subject appeared in the same year, 1995. Educational Complex, by Mike Kelley, is a scale model of every school the artist ever attended, plus his childhood home. These largely modernist structures, including buildings at the University of Michigan, where Kelley got his BFA in 1976, and Cal Arts, where he earned his MFA in 1978, are linked in an unwieldy tabletop display that suggests a kind of institutional digestive tract. To create the models, Kelley relied on his memory, leaving empty and undefined the areas and spaces ...