Art School Not-So-Confidential

So what’s it really like in art school, and who, aside from art school students, cares? Trendy new films aside, are art school teachers really as flaky and married to ideology as they’re always portrayed? Are students really so vicious and unfeeling as to barbecue their colleagues in open session? Not often, says Christopher Hutsel, though he has some stories of his own. But the main distinguishing features of an art school may be the segregation of the design students from the budding artists. And then, of course, there are the comic strippers. No one gets them.