Art is a quest for inspiration and meaning.
A group of aspiring artists goes to New York and learns that art is a business, too. A board a chartered bus idling outside the List Art Center on a raw, dark November morning, visual arts professor Richard Fishman is shouting into his cellular phone. Cowlicked, unshaven, and nearly comatose, they settle down for the four-hour journey to Manhattan. Someone pops in a videotape of The Godfather , and those who aren't already unconscious nod off to the sound of gunfire. For these aspiring artists are about to learn firsthand that the art world is a complicated, often crass place, and that being an artist means more than splashing paint on canvases and creating sculptures from scrap metal.