art is essential
I base my whole career on this premise. Here is a collection of reasons why.
art is essential
In a world fast being shaped by collapse and complexity, artists are not a luxury. They are a necessity. They don’t just interpret culture — they recreate it. They hold space for grief, birth, possibility, and spark the kinds of insights that can’t be beta-tested but must be lived.
It’s time to stop grasping for certainty by asking what is... See more
It’s time to stop grasping for certainty by asking what is... See more
Annalise Lewis • What if Artists Were Your Strategic Weapon in the Boardroom?
It’s not that Irish people have more historical trauma to mine, she said, or that Americans love Irish shit. It’s that her civilization believes art matters — and funds it accordingly, as part of public infrastructure. They believe art makes life navigable. Its actual value is beyond measure, and like a lot of invaluable things, its survival hinges... See more
This is How We Fall Out of Love with the World
That idea stuck with me. If art shapes how we perceive, connect, and innovate—why isn’t it considered essential in the same way food, clothing, and shelter are?
Art as A Necessity: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Human Survival
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:
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