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Open Enrollment | “Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds”
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Open Enrollment | “Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds”
In the Deer Forest “Hi, my name is Peter. Do you want to find out why?” With these words, I became acquainted with Katja Tukiainen. In the back room at …
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Open Enrollment | Nine Months Later, a Master’s Degree
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Open Enrollment | Nine Months Later, a Master’s Degree
Last Friday, my invitation to graduation arrived in the mail. It seemed rather premature as I am but a fraction of the way through researching and writing my final dissertation, …
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Open Enrollment | He’s Not Here Right Now
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Open Enrollment | He’s Not Here Right Now
Hi Everyone! My name is Olivia and I’m Jeffrey’s imaginary studio assistant. Unfortunately, Jeffrey isn’t here right now because he’s running around the city preparing for his thesis exhibition, but …
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Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
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Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
I was waiting in line to buy a movie ticket when I heard the news: Jani Leinonen had been incarcerated. Conversations with my Finnish friends in the previous weeks had …
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Open Enrollment | Work after work after work…
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Open Enrollment | Work after work after work…
On Friday, April 8th, two members from Temporary Services, Brett Bloom and Salem Collo-Julin, gave a presentation on their practice at Outpost for Contemporary Art here in Los Angeles. The …
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Open Enrollment | On the Precipice of Reality: This and That
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Open Enrollment | On the Precipice of Reality: This and That
For this month’s post, I’ve mulled and pondered, thought and reflected, yet I could not come up with any sort of brilliant topic for my penultimate post. So I thought …
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Open Enrollment | Los Angeles: Nice Meeting You Again and Again
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Open Enrollment | Los Angeles: Nice Meeting You Again and Again
This week began with Dean Rochelle Steiner of the USC Roski School of Fine Arts signing off on my thesis and me paying the publishing and binding fee. My thesis …
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Open Enrollment | BFA and MFA Shows: The New Collector’s Market?
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Open Enrollment | BFA and MFA Shows: The New Collector’s Market?
Last Friday, I got off the subway and felt the crisp, eight o’clock Chicago evening air and saw something I was not expecting: a line around The School of the …
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Open Enrollment | I Do Art, Here’s My Card: A Trip to SXSW
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Open Enrollment | I Do Art, Here’s My Card: A Trip to SXSW
I have a pretty set routine that very delicately balances work and school, sandwiching meals and sleep somewhere in the nooks and crannies of my schedule. So my friends and …
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Open Enrollment | What up, Internet? Saxophonist Throws Mad Wrenches in Capitalism’s Machinations
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Open Enrollment | What up, Internet? Saxophonist Throws Mad Wrenches in Capitalism’s Machinations
I’m happy to report that I’m alive. I made it through my first conference presentation as part of The Now Museum Graduate Student Symposium last Sunday at the New Museum. …
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Open Enrollment | On Hierarchies: Thoughts after Sarah Thornton
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Open Enrollment | On Hierarchies: Thoughts after Sarah Thornton
Sarah Thornton, the author of Seven Days in the Art World — a book that made me book laugh, giggle, and weep — spoke last night at the Museum of …
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The What? The CUNY Graduate Center? Is that, like, part of NYU?
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The What? The CUNY Graduate Center? Is that, like, part of NYU?
I’ve really been enjoying reading the posts from my fellow Open Enrollment bloggers over the last month, but Stefan’s post on his current experience at the Courtauld in London caught …
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Open Enrollment: Letters to a Young Art Historian?
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Open Enrollment: Letters to a Young Art Historian?
November 2009, I was in the middle of a dark blue funk, something along the lines of a post-collegiate quarter-life crisis. Working a menial, low-paying job in museum retail and …
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Open Enrollment: From My Institution to Yours
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Open Enrollment: From My Institution to Yours
In the spring of every year, the Master of Public Art Studies: Art/Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program at the University of Southern California, one of two graduate programs …
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Open Enrollment: The Considerable Goodness of Being Led Astray
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Open Enrollment: The Considerable Goodness of Being Led Astray
I found my way into graduate school because I believed it would be something I would enjoy. On nights like this, when I look at my calendar and realize that …
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Introducing Open Enrollment’s Newest Writers
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Introducing Open Enrollment’s Newest Writers
We are pleased to announce Open Enrollment’s incoming class for the Spring 2011 semester. Our newest correspondents will write from their outposts in Helsinki, London, Los Angeles, and NYC, where …
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