May 26, 2000

Art Schools Teach Too Much 'Gimmickry,' With Not Enough Real Education

To the Editor:

The art-school system is long overdue for reform; in fact, its agenda has been so far off base for so long that reform is far too mild a term ("An Education in Risk-Taking," April 21). It needs a complete overhaul, from top to bottom. The worship of all things purporting to be avant-garde has denied several generations of aspiring artists and would-be artists the kind of training they sought, and had every right to expect to find, in an art

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