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> In a message dated 2/20/2005 11:47:51 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>     She should have studied something more useful, like
>     NUTRITION!!!!!  Ruth
>
> Ruth,
>
> Just imagine what she'd be feeding people if she'd become a
> nutritionist instead of an artist.
>
> We're better off as it is.
>
> Ralph

What goes on, and I know this from my duration hiding in Williamsburg
(where this artist is located) and my absolute love of these characters
is that after they get finished hocking themselves up the ying-yang to
get a Masters in ART (and we can wonder where HS guidance counselors fit
in here) if they have any wherewithal whatsoever they move to the most
trendy HOT spot they can find and then they need to struggle/hustle as
cooks or waitresses or carpenters or welders or used bookstore clerks
and then to hustle to DISTINGUISH themselves in the ART press... it
being particularly kool to reserve a closet of your apartment as a
GALLERY where you advertise to show other people's work and you get to
go GAGA when a dufus (one level above an intern) slips a two sentence
review of your gallery (closet now with colored light bulb and sections
of the walls eaten out) into the Village Voice. I say this knowing full
well that behind and down under and further back on the historical time
line there are really damned interesting artists that have been
inhabitating that particular snatch of Brooklyn. The bowels of the
contemporary art  scene is always full of fun.

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