“Without public access, a culture becomes dead, an inert shell that serves as a shill for profit, while too rarefied and remote to thrive. The quaestores of modern times use health, religion, and access to sports and art just like those of the Middle Ages used salvation: to exploit people by pricing what they value too high.”
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Art As Something To Say Or Art As Entertainments?
“People naturally default to thinking of the arts as one of the things we choose to do with our free time and our money, depending on our taste. Looked at this way, an arts experience is no different from eating out or going to a ball game. The current debate about whether artists should speak to policy or politics from the stage is framed to reinforce the default thinking about the arts as entertainment.”
And Another Daily Newspaper Cuts Its Last Full-time Arts Writer
This time the Austin Statesman. “In an email exchange this week, Statesman Editor Debbie Hiott confirmed that, beginning in 2017, the local daily will no longer ‘have a dedicated reporter covering only the visual and performing arts.’ She attributed the move to a familiar culprit: the long, steady drop-off of advertising income that’s had mainstream newspapers across the country cutting back staff and coverage until they’re practically on life support.”
It Wasn’t Just The Invention Of Artificial Light That Changed The Arts – It Was Artificial Darkness As Well
After all, theaters and concert halls weren’t darkened before the 19th century, and photography depended on darkness (and not only to develop film). What’s more, once artificial light was available, darkness itself could become an artistic tool.
What Lessons Should Artists Learn From The Trump Election?
“History and our own recent experience suggest that some soul-searching assessment of the limits of our own gestures, and some clear-eyed analysis of what rhetoric is effective and what is not, is going to be very, very important in the years to come. It will not be enough to languish in mythological beliefs about art’s value as a humanistic salve, or even to fly the flag for “political art” as a genre. We have to debate strategy. Otherwise, we will delude ourselves with endless anti-Trump symbolic theater, applauding our own virtues and confirming our own righteousness within our prescribed sphere, but not advancing one step in the battle of ideas.”
Another Big City Newspaper Decimates Its Arts Coverage
It’s the Edmonton Journal: “Theatre writer Liz Nicholls and music writer Sandra Sperounes and have both taken buyouts and will leave the paper on Dec. 2. The owners PostMedia announced in October it was going to cut staff across the board by 20%, voluntary buyouts first, layoffs if there aren’t enough volunteers.”
How To Calculate Return On Investment In Arts Marketing
Carol Jones, consultant at Britain’s The Audience Agency, offers what she sees as a simple formula for measuring and assessing success.
1000 Prominent Canadian Artists Petition Government To “Fix” The Business Of Creativity
They argue that despite their creativity and innovation, many of them are being squeezed out of a marketplace that monetizes digital distribution without fairly paying content creators: “The middle-class artist is being eliminated from the Canadian economy. Full-time creativity is becoming a thing of the past,” the letter says. “The carefully designed laws and regulations of the 1990s were intended to ensure that both Canadian creators and technological innovators would benefit from digital developments. We hoped that new technology would enrich the cultural experiences for artists and consumers alike. Unfortunately, this has not happened,” the letter continues.
Canadian Data: Arts Attendance Shrank Over 20 Years – Is Accessibility The Problem?
“Of the eight areas the index tracks, culture and leisure was the one that showed the most steady decline over the past 20 years: Participation was hit hard by the recession in 2008 and while it has recovered somewhat, it remains well below what it was in the 1990s. So, the report certainly reinforces the perception that arts audiences are shrinking – but it also provides a social and economic context for these losses that could be useful for those who want to turn the situation around.”
‘.art’ Is Becoming A Real Internet Address
The domain name is officially launching early in 2017, though a few websites with the address are already online. The 60+ early adopters of the address include some of the most prominent museums in the world (Guggenheim, Tate, Centre Pompidou, LACMA, …). So far, there’s only one organization from beyond the visual arts world, though more may come.