The watchdog, the dilettante, the research, the blog and the drunk uncle culture that binds them; everyone is right, and everyone is wrong: A trainwreck, this this week's cool breeze of AC.

A taxpayer watchdog group has gotten a hold of the BS that are the artist's statements funding 1 million dollars in artist's projects, naturally, they are upset.
http://watchdog.org/74635/minnesota-artists-travel-the-world-at-taxpayer-expense/

Jehra Patrick and Melissa Loop sort of kind of don't want to but really do and so end up doing, dignifying the article with a response, because obviously artists are doing their god given work and he who dare question obviously is philistine, this the lord's work.
http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2013/04/03/trouble-in-paradise-a-conversation-with-painter-melissa-loop/

Luckily Melissa Loop's blog is there to depict the research.
http://myheartisanomad.blogspot.com/

It's impossible to pick out highlights, you simply have to sort through the BBQ smelling wreckage yourself.

Remember in the end, it's all for this painting: