<p>See this article in the WSJ</p>
<p>Where Theory and Practice Make Perfect </p>
<p>Great American universities study art, they analyze and critique it, but do they take the creation of it seriously?</p>
<p>Several of our great universities are beginning to rethink their aloof attitude toward the making of art, but the University of Chicago may be ahead of the game. It has recently spent millions of dollars on recruiting top artists for its faculty and on a bricks-and-mortar project to support the integration of art into the curriculum. One coup was to attract artist and former Yale professor Jessica Stockholder. Although Yale’s School of Art was founded in 1869, and it has since added schools of drama, music and architecture, “those are graduate professional schools,” Ms. Stockholder explained to me. “They aren’t integrated into the liberal-arts curriculum in the humanities alongside philosophy, art, history and literature.”</p>
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<p>[Robert</a> Zimmer | Where Theory and Practice Make Perfect | Cultural Conversation by Joel Henning - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444375104577591094203754320.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5]Robert”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444375104577591094203754320.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5)</p>