{"id":1232,"date":"2008-11-12T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/11\/shacking_up\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T16:56:05","slug":"shacking_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/shacking_up.php","title":{"rendered":"Shacking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Chicago Tribune<\/i> critic Chris Jones <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/arts\/chi-theater-space-1109nov09,0,7670250.story\">explores an increasingly common consideration for facility-dependent arts groups<\/a> in a down economy: sharing space instead of building or owning their own. Says Jones:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Given the economic downturn, sharing of space may turn out to the new<br \/>\nparadigm for Chicago cultural institutions. But even though the<br \/>\nbenefits of splitting costs, pooling resources and putting arts venues<br \/>\nto maximum productive use are obvious, sharing performance space is a<br \/>\nlot trickier than it seems. Especially if it takes place on<br \/>\nless-than-equal terms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jones goes on to describe some of the tensions of shared space, especially when one group actually runs the building and the other is only a tenant. Co-promotion of events in the venue can be limited and awkward. Prime dates and real estate can be withheld by the host. And audiences can become confused about who&#8217;s producing when the work is presented by a small organization within the space affiliated with a larger one.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s not as if there&#8217;s much choice in the matter. Capital campaigns for new facilities have stalled all over the country. Boards and executives are casting a more conservative eye on their operating budgets, wary of the increased fixed expenses of owning or operating exclusive space. <\/p>\n<p>Effective cultural management (or any management, for that matter) requires thoughtful, responsive, and even brutal allocation of available resources toward the defined goal. In hard times, that also means chopping resource-grabbers that don&#8217;t advance that goal as effectively when compared to others. The balance between building and programming is often ground zero for these difficult choices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones explores an increasingly common consideration for facility-dependent arts groups in a down economy: sharing space instead of building or owning their own. Says Jones: Given the economic downturn, sharing of space may turn out to the new paradigm for Chicago cultural institutions. But even though the benefits of splitting costs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}