{"id":1126,"date":"2009-04-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/kurt-andersen-vs-art-center.html"},"modified":"2009-04-11T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T18:00:00","slug":"kurt-andersen-vs-art-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/kurt-andersen-vs-art-center.html","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Andersen vs. Art Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SeDsDvl6NGI\/AAAAAAAAANk\/PZ-mWYYqAbY\/s1600-h\/KA.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SeDsDvl6NGI\/AAAAAAAAANk\/PZ-mWYYqAbY\/s320\/KA.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>THE writer, public radio host (of the eclectic culture show &#8220;studio 360&#8221;) and SPY magazine co-founder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtandersen.com\/\">kurt andersen<\/a> has been at pasadena&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artcenter.edu\/\">art center college of design<\/a> over the last few months. his title &#8212; this gives him the appropriate degree of embarrassment &#8212; is &#8220;visionary in residence.&#8221; (art center is a very cool design school, in a stunning hillside\/modernist setting, that has experienced some turmoil recently.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-ca-visionary12-2009apr12,0,3847236.story\">HERE<\/a> is my piece on andersen and his time in socal in sunday&#8217;s LAT. i found him about as i expected &#8212; smart, cool, somewhat midwestern. in high school and early college i was a spy fanatic so was a kick to meet one of the guys behind it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>also really enjoyed his piece &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1887728,00.html\">the end of excess<\/a>: is this crisis good for america?&#8221;\u00a0this is a long, thoughtful and somewhat speculative cover story of the kind american magazines almost never run: it makes absolutely clear that we can no longer dismiss time magazine, where it appeared, as mere middlebrow fluff. (as the whole culture has sunk, middlebrow has become increasingly valuable.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>his piece takes as its premise that the &#8217;80s &#8212; with its worship of unregulated capitalism, material pleasures, celebrity and so on &#8212; never ended, until last fall. he asks, what was that long weekend about and what comes next?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtandersen.com\/\">kurtandersen.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE writer, public radio host (of the eclectic culture show &#8220;studio 360&#8221;) and SPY magazine co-founder kurt andersen has been at pasadena&#8217;s art center college of design over the last few months. his title &#8212; this gives him the appropriate degree of embarrassment &#8212; is &#8220;visionary in residence.&#8221; (art center is a very cool design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165,121,520,71,129,521],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-80s","7":"category-art-center","8":"category-kurt-andersen","9":"category-pasadena","10":"category-public-radio","11":"category-spy-magazine","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}