Questionable Role Models

In her delightfully provocative article entitled Artmaking As Irrevent Research, the Dean of Columbia University's School of the Arts, Carol Becker, makes some fascinating points: Artists will use any form, any discipline, and take ideas from anyone to further their goal of answering the questions they have posed for themselves or calling attention to concerns they feel should be addressed by the society. In this sense, much of their work is inevitably interdisciplinary -- a perfect 21st century...