The Boom is Over. Long Live the Art!

Great NY Times article on a Recession's effect on art in New York over the years and in general.  I especially liked the points about graduate programs reshaping their curriculums for the times...

  
"...Why not make studio training an interdisciplinary experience, crossing over into sociology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, poetry and theology? Why not build into your graduate program a work-study semester that takes students out of the art world entirely and places them in hospitals, schools and prisons, sometimes in-extremis environments, i.e. real life? My guess is that if you did, American art would look very different than it does today."

-Holland Cotter