Conflicts Between perceptions and reality in Death of The Artist

This week a lot of our reading of Death of the artist dealt with the unfortunate misconceptions of those not in the arts regarding what it is actually like to be an artist these days. As an up-and-coming filmmaker, I have seen plenty of faux motivational posts on Instagram or interviews with old film directors […]

Death of the Artist, rich kids, and why we shouldn’t think of art so highly.

By Cole Paul After reading part one of the book “The Death of the Artist” I found myself fully realizing something that I feel has been in the back of my mind for the past couple of years now. This is the realization that as individuals and as a society, we put art on much […]