Tutor: Dan Graham
Lesson: Art Schools at Their Best and Worst
BEST
Visiting artists: Lectures and studio visits
Class trips.
Availability of video, film and audio equipment with technicians
Practical training in areas such as graphic design.
Good libraries
WORST
The emphasis, since the 1980s, on making art as a specialist professional ‘career’ rather than as a passionate experiment.
The obsession with the artist as a future ‘art star’.
The obsession with making an academic rationale for art, a good example being the overuse of the world ‘problematize’.
Teaching only the contemporary art that is found in the art magazines in the library.