Bill Arning

NYU, MIT, TUFTS

Tufts University, Attended 2003 - 2007, Class of 2007, Master's Degree, Art History
New York University, Attended 1978 - 1983, Class of 1983, Bachelor's Degree, Art History

Curator

MIT

arts, music, my dog Hanna, sobriety, Mannerism, wandering around museums, learning

Chronophobia by Pam Lee, Running With Scissors and Dry by Augusten Buroughs, The Big Book, Source by Mark Doty, Painting As Model by Yve-Allain Bois, all the Boyd McDonald "Straight-to'hell" Anthologies

Everything by Douglas Sirk, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-luc Godard, Francois Ozon, Todd Haynes

Hidden Cameras, Final Fantasy, Belle and Sebastion, Beirut, Magnetic Fields, Roxy Music, Supergrass, Idlewild, Placebo, Pulp, Le Tigre, Sleater Kinney, Pansy Division, Daft Punk, Dixie Chicks, Billy Bragg, John Cage, David Tudor, Bob Mould, Grandaddy, Polyphonic Spree, Joanna Newsom, Futureheads, Jane Birken

The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Big Love, weather channel, news, animal planet

Still learning and working on myself, and find that my
only way of learning about myself in through my relations
with others. Taking graduate classes while working full time leaves little play time but I couldn't be happier.
I used to be a musician and there is now a website about the old band, The Student Teachers, its at www.thestudentteachers.com, I am very happy it is there. The past never goes away, it just goes on the net

I like meeting smart people with diverse and obsessive
cultural interests and evolved political sensitivities. I
like meeting people
who have explored areas that I have not and want to share
their passion with me - be that Japanese Noise music,
Iranian Cinema or Bruckner's symphonies. I am like a
symbiotic vampire, renewing my passion sets by leaching the
passions of others, and letting them learn from me
reciprocally . This to me a recipe for many promised years
of future joys.