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Washington DC’s Mayor Wants Her City To Be An Arts Mecca. The City’s Artists Aren’t Happy

ISSUES Posted: May 23, 2019 3:03 pm

The mayor has instrumentalized culture as an economic driver of the capital’s fortunes ever since taking office in 2014 and embarking on the creation of her Cultural Plan one year later. Deference to what she has described as “the cultural economy” has earned Bowser few fans from the arts community, which has characterized the mayor’s proposals as siphoning funds away from the fine arts and into the pockets of small businesses. – Hyperallergic

ISSUES Published: 05.22.19

Read the story in Hyperallergic Published: 05.22.19

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