A master’s with moxie

We like the sound of this: a new master of arts program at CalArts in aesthetics and politics. And knowing CalArts, they don’t mean a program on designing campaign posters. They mean: Who controls the narrative? Who decides what’s good art that deserves money? How can we develop innovative strategies for public conversation?

They mean, and I quote from their announcement, a program that "aims to become a pole of attraction for students, artists, and scholars interested in the type of theorizing--a characteristic of continental thought--that contextualizes aesthetic and political phenomena within a dynamic space in which social meanings are generated, renewed and contested." Wow.

Susan Salter Reynolds