Thin Red Pocket Lining: A Note on the Value of University Art Schools

As it rushes headlong towards the stock exchange, lining its tattered pockets by devilishly offering students the educational stock of the deepest desire, university art schools shed its role under modernity of defining and transmitting cultural value. Mammon replaces machismo in the squeezing of art. And yet....?

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Upping the Ante: SALA'99.Leter to the Editor

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