Hey Art World: You Eat Your Young (And Your Middle-Aged, And Your Elderly, Too)

Chris Kasper planned for a union for arts workers. Then he got his MFA and moved to New York. “When I would score jobs, I would just feel grateful to be working (no matter how insane or abusive the person or organization I was working for) at a rate of 15 to 20 bucks an hour. The people I worked next to were all in the same boat I was.”