What makes a great art school? The question corkscrews deeper into the stuff of life than you might think.

If the goal of an art school is to produce great art, you could simply reverse-engineer the question and ask: Where did the best artists go to school? Bingo! There are your best art schools.

But, of course, many great artists never bothered to go to art school. Or if they did, they flunked out; or else they went, only to learn what they didn’t want to be, or do. Creativity is crazy like that. It makes no sense.

Read More