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>“I’m not sure when it went out but I can tell you, in 1974, it wasn’t in.”
Hot press Arches paper, nude bodies, 4B pencils: the "real dump" that Richard Prince recounts in his blog, birdtalk 
, looked the same in 2010 as when the art star moved to New York City in 1974. I know this because in 2010, I had just moved to the city, and, like Prince, I'd come, not from Maine, but the longstanding tradition of drawing the figure wherein
> The place belonged to some women and part of what was in the hat went toward their rent. It wasn’t crazy or wild or new or different or groundbreaking or what was next. It’s where things started...
In 2023, figure drawing still hasn't made a comeback. It is as out of fashion as it was in 1974. But the studio with tin ceiling and exposed pipe and the feeling of a Quaker meeting with no beer, no talking, everyone doing their own private thing, is still going strong. So are the groups back home, and everywhere elsewhere, passing around the hat to pay the models so they can turn their drawings around and talk and share. Like AA, Prince observes, only with beer.
$20 to walk in
$70 for five sessions
$130 for ten sessions
$300 for twenty-five sessions
$500 for fifty sessions
Between the twin meltdowns of crypto in May and November, and now, the biggest banking failure since 2008, painting tail on a sliding scale is the only kind of work that doesn't feel difficult or impossible under the current paradigm. Connecting a hip to a thigh is hard, but it's the kind of hard that never changes. Sort of like being Square:In art, value is as subjective as commercial utility but Squaresville always stays the same.
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