PROPOSITIONS

are vizKult initiatives. They are not stable in form or goal, they just exist for the sake of stirring up ideas in a lucid way. The following are PROPOSITIONS are being developed.

ALT/ART SCHOOLS / DISCUSSION GROUPS

for self education. Mostly free. Currently listing only schools in New York. If you have a group you want to list, email us. Descriptions coming soon.

ART EDUCATION CO$T

Art is a big business that starts the moment you begin to think about wanting to be an artist, these institutions will convince you that, yes, you can be an artist, with the right education. Cost below for a MFA Fine Arts for 2010-2011.
Columbia University, MFA Fine Arts
$89,784 total / $22,446 per semester. This is tuition only, there are also other fees for facilities, etc which add up to an additional $1,664 per semester, bring a 2 yr MFA to $96,400, making education at Columbia University the most over priced MFA.
Pratt, MFA Fine Arts
$75,780 total / $18,945 per semester. Pratt doesn't even list the tuition and fees up front. You have to download this pdf, and when you do, it doesn't directly list the per credit cost to obtain Pratt's 60 credit MFA in Fine Arts. I was surprised to find Pratt to be more expensive than SVA given the location in Brooklyn.
Parsons, MFA Fine Arts
$72,240 total / $18,060 per semester. Parsons and Pratt are neck and neck for second place in overprices MFA programs. I spoke to one Parsons student that said it was worth it because you get good visiting artist, but that's not the case, if your school has a art student union you can usually invite any artists to visit your school. These are Parsons MFA Fine Arts tuition for 2009-2010 school year, I bet it's gone up a couple thousand for next semester, You'd think they would update the info by now?
School of Visual Arts , MFA Fine Arts
$63,000 total / $15,750 per semester. SVA doesn't list the fees for Fine Arts, but you can get an idea how much more tuition will be here.
CUNY Schools:
Brookyln College, MFA
City College, MFA
Hunter College, MFA
Queens College, MFA

$14,720 / $3,680 per semester NY state residents. Out of state is $575 per credit/MFA is 48 credits, so about $27,600 Out of state for the entire degree- still 1/3 of the cost of the other schools. This is a realistic option in the sense that you can work, take out a few loans and pay for your tuition, averaging $1,050 per month.

But still, research the three big factors: location, faculty, studio, and post-graduation assistance, i.e. network for alumni..

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts
City College MFA Fine Arts
Hunter College MFA Fine Arts
Queens College MFA Fine Arts
Hunter College tuition calculator
CUNY MFA Yahoo Group

RESOURCES

for artist. Including mailing list, listings of art and artist opportunities. the list should be longer, I know, but how many lists can one human follow?
Art & Education (International)
Website and email newsletter. "Art&Education announcements distributes information about some of the world’s most important contemporary art exhibitions, publications, and symposia taking place within educational contexts, as well as academic employment positions available in the visual arts."
E-flux (International)
Website and email newsletter. "Art&Education announcements distributes information about some of the world’s most important contemporary art exhibitions, publications, and symposia taking place within educational contexts, as well as academic employment positions available in the visual arts."
DKS List (New York)
Douglas Kelley Show List. Bare bones weekly listing of shows in NYC, edited and by area. There is also a mailing list you can subscribe to.
Platform for Pedagogy (New York)
Platform for Pedagogy is an initiative to advance a culture of cross-disciplinary public lecture attendance and to develop the lecture as form. Platform Mailer is a weekly events e-mail promoting public lectures in and around New York City
Art Cat (New York)
The opinionated Guide to New York Art. These people also offer a calendar that you can feed into your iPhone or Google Cal, or iCal.
Nurture Art (US/International?)
NURTUREart Non-Profit Inc. is dedicated to nurturing new contemporary art by providing exhibition opportunities and resources for both emerging artists and curators... They also have two calendars you can plug into your iPhone, iCal or Google Cal one for Artist Opportunities, the other for Artist Residency Deadlines...
Foucault Virilio Bataille

VIZKULT SOCIETY

explores visual culture through the lens of Georges Bataille, Paul Virilio, and Michel Foucault.
coming soon...
 

ART & CRIME

plays an important role in the art world, because everybody wants a piece of culture. Looting, black market, theft, vandalism, etc...
Interpol Stolen Works of Art
From Interpol website: "In order to combat the theft of cultural property, the relevant organizations and the public need to be made more aware of the problem. This is the primary objective of these web pages."
Art Crimes
A more sensationalist approach to art crimes.
Wikipedia Looted Art
Wikipedia gives decent coverage of the Looted Art Scene.

FLOTSAM & JETSAM

from the bureaux blog...

Chinatown’s Mobile Panopticon

Chinatown Panopticon, April 5, 2010

Where did all the counterfeit Gucci sellers go? Where ever the panoticon can’t see, that’s where. Down the alleys and back behind the main streets. Passing by Chinatown NYC a couple of months back I saw this mobile observance tower, it’s hard to tell if anyone is really in there with the dark windows. It works magic in the area but doesn’t really stop the counterfeit dealers and buyers. I still see them doing business all the time to either Europeans on a tight American vacation or Americans  from outside of New York looking to look good on the cheap. It’s the cult of vision that has common folks like us breaking the law. What’s wrong with a little corporate image blood letting anyhow? The only thing they are losing is the control over who wears their brand.

Source: Bureaux. 26 August 2010, 3:14 pm