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Is culture overbuilt?
  Posted: October 2, 2006
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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, in my case).

The goal of this particular convening is to define how we might ask that question in a more productive way: What would we measure if we wanted to know? What evidence would we gather? And what, exactly, do we mean by ''overbuilt'' in the first place?

Not sure what will come of it, but I'm looking forward to the conversation. More to come in time...