blissblogger
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someone in the maya thread, sorry forget who, said something that suggested that the art school pop tradition in the UK wasn't as strong as it was, that art schools had changed -- i've no basis on which to know but i wondered if this was true -
certainly a huge proportion of the UK bands i liked in the 80s had some links to art school but by the 90s i don't get the sense particularly that they were coming out of that area so much
have art schools got more businesslike and less like freeform spaces for fucking about? or is it just that artists are more inclined to stick to an art path? (the boom of Brit Art making art seem cooler than music?).
in new york though the No Wave thing of painters picking up plectrums seems to be quite strong at the moment -- gang gang dance is full of artists, and the singer liz bougatsis is actually a painter of some reknown i believe
ariel pink is also a product of Cal Arts
certainly a huge proportion of the UK bands i liked in the 80s had some links to art school but by the 90s i don't get the sense particularly that they were coming out of that area so much
have art schools got more businesslike and less like freeform spaces for fucking about? or is it just that artists are more inclined to stick to an art path? (the boom of Brit Art making art seem cooler than music?).
in new york though the No Wave thing of painters picking up plectrums seems to be quite strong at the moment -- gang gang dance is full of artists, and the singer liz bougatsis is actually a painter of some reknown i believe
ariel pink is also a product of Cal Arts