Wag, wag, goes the dog. From painter Aaron Karp’s description of his work at Eva Cohon Gallery on West Superior: “I used to be able to finish a painting after the fifth or sixth layer [of paint], but as a result of being on this grant the duration has become ridiculously prolonged. I often wonder after about the sixteenth layer…”
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“I have attended too many community meetings where everybody seems to know everything but nothing conclusive is ever derived from discussions,” laments Andrew Eperi in Afrique (October). “Africans, I have found, will argue all subjects, armed with all possible known theories. This is what Eurocentric education has taught us. So we accumuate lots of degrees, hang the certificates all over our walls, even store some in boxes and seek out forums through which we can expound our theories with no direction or focus, like misguided laser beams.” Boy, I’m sure glad I’ve never known a white person who did this.
Report from foundationland: assets down, spending up. Total assets of the 173 member foundations of the Donors Forum of Chicago in 1991: $6.254 billion. In 1992: $6.248 billion. Total grants they all made in 1991: $404 million. In 1992: $433 million.
