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Sylvie
To spot weird signals, you need to go down rabbit holes. Follow your intuition. And remember, pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastination. Sometimes, it’s simply your mind telling you to follow your curiosity. Weirdness can present itself at any given moment, through any medium.
Sublime • How to have a POV
It’s tempting to think of art as outside of our practical needs: art does not hold up walls or keep us warm; it derives its value from our perceptions of it. It exists to prove we are capable of appreciating things beyond their practicality. We can see again how it is directly opposed to the inherent efficiency of money: if art were so crass as to
... See moreDavid Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
Arts organizations are routinely evaluated by budgets, attendance, or financial efficiency - while the real public value of the work lives in belonging, empathy, learning, civic connection, and well-being.
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I like to think of gardening metaphors, like growing trust. You have to water it—not too much, not too little. And things will always grow in different directions and with different outcomes than you’re expecting, but that’s okay.
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
The book also signals a way out of a prominent contemporary narrative in which women—usually white women—are portrayed as intellectually and creatively stifled by childbearing, and motherhood is characterized as an inherent threat to individual possibility. This narrative isn’t wrong; during the past nineteen months, I’ve had less time to work,... See more
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Yet artists have never lost their power to create transcendent things. Every society’s art that we can still access vibrates intensely through the human experience. We are still creating things that can fundamentally alter people’s lives, shake the core of their understanding, rewrite their entire personhood.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
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