{"id":2514,"date":"2014-12-01T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T01:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2014-12-01T17:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T01:40:39","slug":"artists-and-the-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/12\/artists-and-the-cost-of-living.html","title":{"rendered":"Artists and the Cost of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WE see it again and again: A marginal — rough, industrial or just boring — neighborhood attracts artists and musicians and generates an “edgy” reputation. For a few years, good things happen. But after a while — and, often, a benign explosion of coffee shops and bike paths and cheese stores — the artists and musicians and fellow travelers are driven out by high rents. Hollywood players and hedge-fund guys move in. And a creative community — a music scene, a consortium of visual artists, and so on — disperses.<\/p>\n

Today I discussed how this process works — and what the stakes are — in Los Angeles.\u00a0Host Warren Olney, of “Which Way LA?”, spoke to me and three others, including artist Julia Meltzer of Clockshop. The program goes up on KCRW at 7 p.m. (Pacific time) tonight; it’s already up, here<\/a>, online.<\/p>\n

The subject made me think of two other posts I’ve put put up in recent months —\u00a0this<\/a> one,\u00a0about visual artists in New York, and this<\/a> one about San Francisco’s music scene being crushed by skyrocketing rents.<\/p>\n

I should also mention an upcoming documentary film — Miracle\u00a0on 42d St.<\/em><\/a> — about subsidized housing for artists in New York, and which includes narration by Samuel L. Jackson, Larry David, An\"Los_Angeles_downtown_sunset_cityscape\"<\/a>gela Lansbury and others who lived in or knew the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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