art is essential
I base my whole career on this premise. Here is a collection of reasons why.
art is essential
an provide a major economic boost for a town
Time spent thinking about art is time spent wondering what it really feels like to be you.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
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
Not to sound like a raging humanist, but I believe we need more funding for the arts and humanities, not less. Taste, judgement, creativity, all of these attributes don't get refined by doing the same thing, reading the same thing, and listening to the same thing as everybody else all the time.
This is just a thought I had after I saw Kameron... See more
This is just a thought I had after I saw Kameron... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
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?
When we defund the arts, we aren’t cutting “extras.” We’re cutting out access to empathy, critical thinking, joy, identity, and freedom of expression. We are narrowing our children’s worldviews and telling future generations that beauty and voice don’t matter.
This erosion isn’t accidental—it’s often political. Silencing art is a time-tested tool of... See more
This erosion isn’t accidental—it’s often political. Silencing art is a time-tested tool of... See more
Art as A Necessity: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Human Survival
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.
as much as art needs money, money also needs art. The popes and kings of the world are indebted to artists for preserving their legacies via portraits and tombs and all kinds of art. Art and business have always needed each other and worked together over the years. The world we live in today is the result of such a timeless marriage.