art is essential
I base my whole career on this premise. Here is a collection of reasons why.
art is essential
Creative Infrastructure Is the New Public Good
We build roads, bridges, and broadband — but who’s funding museums, media, and meaning?
Cultural infrastructure is what keeps society inspired, informed, and humane. It’s not charity. It’s civilization.
Founders, investors, and artists who understand this are designing the blueprint for the next economy —... See more
We build roads, bridges, and broadband — but who’s funding museums, media, and meaning?
Cultural infrastructure is what keeps society inspired, informed, and humane. It’s not charity. It’s civilization.
Founders, investors, and artists who understand this are designing the blueprint for the next economy —... See more
Nina Orm (@ninaorm)
Research shows that for each dollar spent at a local movie theater, an additional $1.50 is spent in surrounding businesses—restaurants, bars, transportation. Theaters are not just retail outlets. They are, as Cinema United’s Michael O’Leary put it, “cultural and economic anchors of communities of all sizes.”
When those anchors disappear, communities... See more
When those anchors disappear, communities... See more
The Paramount Doctrine's Irony
The real “Culture Warriors” are filmmakers and movie stars and novelists and pop icons and playwrights and painters and illustrators and composers and comedians and dancers and sculptors and architects and much, much more.
They’re studying story structure or practicing scales or grinding away at the barre or slaving inside a studio or rehearsing... See more
They’re studying story structure or practicing scales or grinding away at the barre or slaving inside a studio or rehearsing... See more
THIS is How You Fight a Culture War.
The reason we’re alive is to express ourselves in the world. And creating art may be the most effective and beautiful method of doing so. Art goes beyond language, beyond lives. It’s a universal way to send messages between each other and through time.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Bringing people together: Almost without exception, the projects studied have made a significant contribution to bringing people together. At a simple level, more than nine out of ten respondents made new friends as a result of their involvement. This is such an ordinary outcome of participating in the arts that it can easily be underestimated:
... See moreFrançois Matarasso • Use or ornament? The social impact of participation in the arts
The public money has dried up, in other words, but so has a whole lot of the private money. You might not have noticed the ramifications quite yet, but you will. It’s in the increasingly ardent pleas from your local NPR station, of course, but it’s also just absence: the film festival or day camp or curated exhibition or concert series that just... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • No Really, How Do We Fund the Art We Care About *Right Now*?
Terrence McNally says it best, via Tateh, “Without art, what is our existence but chaos?”
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HOW COME FROM AWAY CAME HOME
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