{"id":1313,"date":"2009-06-16T14:45:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/06\/the_fewer_the_older\/"},"modified":"2009-06-16T14:45:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:45:24","slug":"the_fewer_the_older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_fewer_the_older.php","title":{"rendered":"The fewer, the older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A preview of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.gov\/news\/news09\/SPPA-highlights.html\">2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts results<\/a> have just been posted by the National Endowment for the Arts, and the news is a bit sobering. This is the mother ship of longitudinal surveys on arts participation in the United States &#8212; conducted in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau every 10 years or so since 1982. Among the happy findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attendance at the most popular types of arts events &#8212; such as art museums and craft\/visual arts festivals &#8212; saw notable declines. Even those most inclined to attend arts events in past years &#8212; college-educated adults &#8212; are participating less than before.<\/li>\n<li>Between 1982 and 2008, attendance at performing arts such as classical music, jazz, opera, ballet, musical theater, and dramatic plays has seen double-digit rates of decline.<\/li>\n<li>Fewer adults are creating and performing art. Only the share of adults doing photography has increased.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Much of the decline could be linked to a bad economy (NEA research suggests that annual consumer spending on the performing arts drops 0.8 percent for every 1 percent decline in Gross Domestic Product). But there are also indicators of more systemic shifts.<\/p>\n<p>The real meat and analysis of the SPPA report will arrive in the fall. But this early preview gives us a taste of the difficult news to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preview of the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts results have just been posted by the National Endowment for the Arts, and the news is a bit sobering. This is the mother ship of longitudinal surveys on arts participation in the United States &#8212; conducted in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau [&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-1313","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\/1313","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=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}