Saturday, May 16, 2015

Entire USC First-Year MFA Class is Dropping Out

Entire USC First-Year MFA Class is Dropping Out

"We are a group of seven artists who made the decision to attend USC Roski School of Art and Design’s MFA program based on the faculty, curriculum, program structure, and funding packages. We are a group of seven artists who have been forced by the school’s dismantling of each of these elements to dissolve our MFA candidacies. In short, due to the university’s unethical treatment of its students, we, the entire incoming class of 2014, are dropping out of school and dropping back into our expanded communities at large."

Read more here: 
http://www.artandeducation.net/school_watch/entire-usc-mfa-1st-year-class-is-dropping-out/

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Monday, May 11, 2015

Chris Burden RIP

Burden, the protean Conceptual artist who rose from doing controversial performances in the 1970s to become one of the most compelling and widely admired sculptors of his generation, died Sunday at his home in Topanga Canyon. He was 69.
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