The Irvine Foundation has just released a short report that seeks to capture the critical issues facing the arts in California. While the report is specific to the state, the tensions and dynamics it defines might as well be about any state in the Union. Irvine is also interested in gathering comments, and has created […]
Archives for October 2006
Is culture overbuilt?
I’m traveling today for a think-tank/roundtable/confab thing-y exploring the state of America’s professional cultural infrastructure, and whether or not it has grown beyond the scope of all combined sources of potential revenue and resources. Perhaps not a happy topic, but certainly a persistent one over the past few years (in fact, almost exactly two years, […]