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Coot Deever, PhD
Post #1591 • February 18, 2013, 4:26 PM
Carol Diehl goes to the CAA conference so you don't have to.
I walked past a booth flaking a "low residency PhD," which tempted me for a moment, thinking how much fun it could be to go from no degree to a PhD and study theory and philosophy in an organized way, but immediately scotched the idea when I attempted another panel that opened with an incomprehensible presentation by a chaired Harvard professor, a specialist in African and African-American art who, among other flubs, could not correctly pronounce "Basquiat" or "Cote d’Ivoire" ("Bas-kee-yay" and "Coot Deever"—eek!).
The CAA job mill was humming, as usual, with interviewees scurrying about or sitting on the floor at the Hilton making last-minute touch-ups to their resumes, but—you read it here—I give the art school bubble another 10 years, maybe only five. With the move from professorships to low-paying adjunct positions, it’s unlikely students will put up with high tuition rates when the only jobs they can expect at graduation pay next-to-nothing and offer neither benefits nor security. At least there will be no need to complain anymore about the academization of art—the academies will simply kill themselves.
The College Art Association: ruining Valentine's Day since 1911.
Personally, I went to the Portland Museum of Art to see the Lois Dodd exhibition. I approve. More on that soon.