{"id":11746,"date":"2015-08-28T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-2005-i-already-knew-about-this-narrow-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-28T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:07:39","slug":"in-2005-i-already-knew-about-this-narrow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-2005-i-already-knew-about-this-narrow-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 2005, I already knew about this narrow MFA-to-market pipeline. I was in an anti-art fair at Parker\u2019s Box in Williamsburg, wh ere I met a performance artist. He confided that he was the only person in his MFA cohort at Columbia who didn\u2019t sell work in a recent open studio. He was the only one who wasn\u2019t making paintings. I don\u2019t know what happened to him and I haven\u2019t heard much about his career. I wonder if he wasn\u2019t good enough or if he chose the wrong programme or, more worryingly, if the narrow tracks of selectivity already determine the kind of art that makes it into galleries and museums. They tend to lead to the same places.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/theartnewspaper.com\/comment\/154969\/\">Artistic success in America means wearing the right old school tie<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005, I already knew about this narrow MFA-to-market pipeline. I was in an anti-art fair at Parker\u2019s Box in Williamsburg, wh ere I met a performance artist. He confided that he was the only person in his MFA cohort at Columbia who didn\u2019t sell work in a recent open studio. He was the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-33s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}