{"id":347,"date":"2003-07-31T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T18:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2003\/07\/the_art_of_gobbledegook\/"},"modified":"2003-07-31T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2003-07-31T18:22:50","slug":"the_art_of_gobbledegook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_art_of_gobbledegook.php","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Gobbledegook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friend and arts manager Mark Nerenhausen in Florida sent a link to this article in <i>The Guardian<\/i> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/news\/story\/0,11711,1007920,00.html\">leadership shake-up at the Royal Shakespeare Company<\/a> subtitled &#8220;Debate over business in art rages as Foy quits.&#8221; The article points to a classic struggle among boards and administrators&#8230;do we hire an artist or a businessperson to run the show?<\/p>\n<p>\nA favorite quote from the article:<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"blogquote\">\nSome theatre insiders acknowledged Mr Foy&#8217;s talent but felt the moment was right to call time on the management &#8220;gobbledegook&#8221; of business involvement in the arts.\n<\/div>\n<p>The story exposes once more this common assumption that business thinking and artistic mission are mutually exclusive qualities. While this may be true in specific instances, it <i>cannot<\/i> be a universal truth. An exceptional arts manager uses the tools and, yes, the &#8216;gobbledegook&#8217; of business to serve an artistic mission. Whether that manager self-identifies as an artistic thinker or a business thinker is irrelevant, as long as he or she is actually both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend and arts manager Mark Nerenhausen in Florida sent a link to this article in The Guardian about the leadership shake-up at the Royal Shakespeare Company subtitled &#8220;Debate over business in art rages as Foy quits.&#8221; The article points to a classic struggle among boards and administrators&#8230;do we hire an artist or a businessperson to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-347","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\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}