LIKE ANANTELOPE THROUGH A PYTHON…
DEBATE IN AND AROUND ART EDUCATION IN THIS country and therefore its impact on our culture and support for retaining art schools, particularly in Sydney, is important and needs input from all those who truly care for a serious ongoing vibrant culture in the visual arts.
This essay’s heading of “like an antelope through a python” are words I_have never forgotten. They’re from an article written or maybe typed by Robert Hughes (who else?) in 1985.
The article in magazine, titled ‘Careerism And Hype Amidst An Image Haze’, gave me the first inkling that American universities had made a shift to add another string to the academic bow, and as a graduate from two art schools here and in England, I was bemused and_somewhat taken aback at the implications
