Former NEA chairman Bill Ivey says it’s time to rethink about how we think abou the business of arts in America. “Look at record companies — they’re almost all for-profit. Museums are almost all nonprofit. Theatre is unusual because some institutions are in one world and some are in another, and that makes you wonder about the value of nonprofit status. Some parts of the arts system — like design, architecture, and, for the most part, book publishing and fashion — lack much of a nonprofit presence yet are vigorous parts of the cultural landscape, which they retain without getting grants. So it would be interesting to back up and look at the system without the old assumptions.”