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Artforum International, September, 2001 by ISRAEL, NICO
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Like other hard c and r words--culture, curator, critic--career, to my ears, has an ugly ring to it. This seems especially the case when the word is conjoined with such adjectives as artistic or academic, which ideally would resist career's implication of relentless, purposive momentum. There is solace to be had in the knowledge that, in its verb form at least, career is synonymous with its etymological cousin, careen--"to hurtle with an unsteady motion, to sway from side to side, to lurch." Careering can be perilous, not least of ...
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