Arts Visual Art Intern Needed
posted by on November 13 at 14:53 PM
Here’s the text of the classified ad.
Wanted: Stranger Visual Art InternThree months of Shangri-La with my wry and well-outfitted viz-art intern, Jamey Braden, are about to come to an end.
The good news for any incoming intern is that she’ll train you, and she is worth knowing. The job involves putting together the art calendar every week, and occasionally Slogging about what you see out there, art-wise. It’s probably an 8-hour weekly commitment that lasts about three months, and you should be able to come into the Capitol Hill office to work.
My ideal candidate is someone who wants to be an art critic eventually—and while the internship is unpaid, most of my interns write at least one published review, if not more, by the end of their time—but minimally, I have to have somebody who knows the basics about contemporary art and the local scene (who’ll notice if a big gallery is missing from the listings, for instance).
What else? Attention to detail, naturally. Sense of humor, I beg you. No flakes. Send me a note and a resume if you’re interested: jgraves@thestranger.com. And tell me, if you could transport yourself to any art show in the world right this second, which one would it be, and why.
Here’s a depiction of the work:
Yessir, that looks like the sort of work that will keep a man honest.
As with the "Unpaid Intern" I assume there's no pay here. Dan, how does The Stranger justify this exploitation?
In this art work, we see the American peasant, downtrodden by his Royalist masters in the White House, reduced to using a hoe to scrape a bare living from the soil. You can sense that this former sk8rboi once lived in a country free from fear, but as the burning hay - detritus of the Beltway-financed ethanol industry that enslaves him - depicts, his hunched and weary shoulders have forced him into a serfdom for his oil baron masters.
Yet he looks up, in the distance, to the promise of the rebellion soon to come.
The small hill, with a lone scraggly tree upon it, represents the former forest wealth of the Pacific Northwest, now despoiled to feed the baronial estates of the Cheney-Bush insiders, and the footwear of the soon-to-rebel serf shows his connection with the land, both in it's organic feel and it's umber tones.
A slight menace is felt, akin to that before the Troubles in Ireland exploded upon the world, and the forecoming struggle for freedom vibrates in the shades and shadows of the piece.
... how did i do?
Well I do not need the job but I do like your question about what show someone would like to be seeing right now anywhere in the world.
I would say "Stan Douglas. Past Imperfect"
in Stockholm.
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