{"id":4121,"date":"2018-11-02T14:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2018-11-02T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:17:56","slug":"the-arts-in-los-angeles-10-years-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2018\/11\/the-arts-in-los-angeles-10-years-after.html","title":{"rendered":"The Arts in Los Angeles, 10 Years After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar]<\/p>\n<p>SOME of you may know me as the author of a reasonably gloomy book on the arts, the recession, digital technology, and our fraught cultural future. When I was approached recently by the Los Angeles Times to take a look at how cultural institutions, large and small, and individual artists had experienced the 2008 crash, the belated recovery, the ensuing housing crisis, and the rest, I could not really turn it down, party because I was genuinely curious to look with more depth than I had in several years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/350px-Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall_LA_CA_jjron_22.03.2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/350px-Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall_LA_CA_jjron_22.03.2012-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/350px-Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall_LA_CA_jjron_22.03.2012-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/350px-Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall_LA_CA_jjron_22.03.2012.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What I found is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/la-et-cm-2008-collapse-la-arts-institutions-20181102-story.html\">HERE<\/a>. In numerous ways, Los Angeles has weathered this better than a lot of other US cities. But as you&#8217;ll see, the picture is certainly complex. I worked harder on just about anything I&#8217;ve done over the last two years &#8212; not just on the reporting and research, but getting the balance and proportion right in the writing.<\/p>\n<p>The trick here is that even if we&#8217;re all Angelenos, everyone&#8217;s story is somehow different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar] SOME of you may know me as the author of a reasonably gloomy book on the arts, the recession, digital technology, and our fraught cultural future. When I was approached recently by the Los Angeles Times to take a look at how cultural institutions, large and small, and individual artists had experienced the 2008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[39,30,29],"tags":[774,947],"class_list":{"0":"post-4121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-creative-class","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"category-west-coast","10":"tag-great-recession","11":"tag-los-angeles-times","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}