{"id":1387,"date":"2010-01-25T00:49:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T08:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2010\/01\/rumination_on_expressive_life\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T00:49:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T08:49:51","slug":"rumination_on_expressive_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/rumination_on_expressive_life.php","title":{"rendered":"Rumination on &#8221;expressive life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be blogging elsewhere on ArtsJournal this week, as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/expressive\/\">&#8221;Expressive Life&#8221; week-long blog discussion<\/a> convened by Bill Ivey and featuring a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/expressive\/\">ragtag bunch of big thinkers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Since his work as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Bill had been increasingly frustrated with the public and policy discourse about arts and culture. He eventually decided that the phrase and frame itself, &#8221;arts and culture,&#8221; was partially to blame. The two anchors of that phrase were both impossible to define and easy to dismiss by those who defined their future.<\/p>\n<p>So his concept of &#8221;expressive life&#8221; was born, intending to restart the conversation with a clean slate and a bigger circle of human activity in the mix &#8212; from the most extraordinary artist to community arts to fashion to handicraft to political speech to songs around the family piano.<\/p>\n<p>But does the phrase have potential? Is it only semantic shuffling? Does it change the game or just rename the players? That&#8217;s the focus of the roundtable happening all this week. Hope you join the conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be blogging elsewhere on ArtsJournal this week, as part of the &#8221;Expressive Life&#8221; week-long blog discussion convened by Bill Ivey and featuring a ragtag bunch of big thinkers. Since his work as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Bill had been increasingly frustrated with the public and policy discourse about arts and [&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-1387","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\/1387","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=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}