As the only member of my southern San Diego bordertown’s Class of ’78 who was a card-carrying member of the Patti Smith fan club, I waited for Patti’s vanishingly rare appearance in America’s Finest City with the giddiness of an Opus …. Nonetheless, the magazine’s plucky spirit, its faith in the neo-Dada gesture at a moment when most art schools have enthusiastically embraced the Koonsian logic of branding, marketing , and self-promotion (any day now, they’ll cast aside …

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