Experiments in art : digital : life

A new series of paintings. These two include Rory McIlroy + Michelle Wie.

An article by Ivan Moreno in the Associated Press (Denver):

“Colorado artists want to give a futuristic makeover to the rustic sheep wagons used by immigrant workers across the West.

Immigrants from Peru, Chile, Mexico and Nepal who come to the U.S. sometimes live in worn-out one-room trailers in desolate landscapes, including in Wyoming, California, and Utah. The working conditions caught the attention of Colorado lawmakers this year, but no legislation materialized…”

Read the full article here.

“…Never has the American art world functioned so efficiently as a full-service marketing industry on the corporate model…” [full text here]

From February of 2009, but still relevant none the less. Worth a read.

The last paragraph in particular might even give one hope.

This time about the “indentured servitude” that student loans are piling onto Americans, and its effects on both the (idea of) middle class and the “American Dream.”

See a great article with multiple links here.

It’s my personal belief that student loans are creating an over-educated, under-employed/employable class of citizens in this country – particularly in the arts, but in other disciplines as well. The upside, I suppose, is that such conditions generally make fertile ground for true revolution.