The San Francisco Art Institute, as portrayed in "An Education in Risk-Taking," is a factory of self-indulgence. Calling it "art" doesn't elevate the student's behavior, but it does reduce the value of "art" as a term.
Could Zoë Ingalls find no dissenters at the SFAI who think that liberated expression and self-justification were being persued ad absurdum? If not, then the critical-thinking skills that the SFAI wants to instill in its students are not nearly critical enough.
