{"id":1262,"date":"2009-02-13T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/02\/of_art_and_innovation\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T17:00:04","slug":"of_art_and_innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/of_art_and_innovation.php","title":{"rendered":"Of art and innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve grown a bit weary of our lofty but vague advocacy of the arts. In our rhetoric and our strategy, we&#8217;ve become interchangeable with any other industry in search of public money, favorable legislation, or civic priority. Which is why I particularly like the specifics and evidence of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/imagine-that\/200902\/a-missing-piece-in-the-economic-stimulus-hobbling-arts-hobbles-innovation\">this article on artistic endeavor and scientific innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ll admit it&#8217;s selective in its evidence (to be fair, I suppose they could list essential innovations that had <i>nothing<\/i> to do with the arts or artists), at least it backs up its argument with some specifics. I&#8217;m off to find the authors&#8217; study on Nobel laureates in the sciences, which discovered this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They are twenty-five<br \/>\ntimes as likely as the average scientist to sing, dance, or act;<br \/>\nseventeen times as likely to be a visual artist; twelve times more<br \/>\nlikely to write poetry and literature; eight times more likely to do<br \/>\nwoodworking or some other craft; four times as likely to be a musician;<br \/>\nand twice as likely to be a photographer. Many connect their art to<br \/>\ntheir scientific ability with some riff on Nobel prizewinning physicist<br \/>\nMax Planck words: &#8220;The creative scientist needs an <i>artistic<\/i> imagination.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to get voraciously curious about where artistic experience and insight <i>really<\/i> connect to our world &#8212; our economy, our technology, our society, our history, and our daily lives. If we dive in with rigor, we&#8217;re bound to discover that the arts aren&#8217;t generically beneficial, but rather provide specific and unique impacts unavailable from elsewhere. That makes the life of the advocate a bit more difficult, but also (eventually) more resilient.<\/p>\n<p><i>[ Thanks again to George, my new fount of useful links! ]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve grown a bit weary of our lofty but vague advocacy of the arts. In our rhetoric and our strategy, we&#8217;ve become interchangeable with any other industry in search of public money, favorable legislation, or civic priority. Which is why I particularly like the specifics and evidence of this article on artistic endeavor and scientific [&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-1262","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\/1262","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=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}