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WORTH REPEATING:

by mafoloko d. | May 29, 2006 at 08:05 pm

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“The financial stakes for young artists living in New York, especially with MFA debt, is higher than it’s ever been... That reality causes two things: a greater necessity for delusions of grandeur—this all-or-nothing attitude, which is probably good for art. But the other side is it makes artists shit their pants, allowing more calculated, conservative and market-oriented elements to sneak into their practice, which is obviously bad for art....”

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at 20:39 on May 29th, 2006

"I used to pay $250 a month for a 3,000-square-foot basement in '71," says Catuccio. "Now the rent is a scary $10,000. How can any artist afford it? It's a capitalist, rapacious world now."
--Joe Catuccio (back in 2001)

"But the capitalists on Greene Street aren’t complaining. Keiko Fukuzaki owns a custom-made swimwear shop on Greene Street. She brags of customers like Cindy Crawford and Oprah Winfrey"

source: www.nyc24.org/2001/issue01/story06/page3.html