{"id":767,"date":"2012-04-26T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/04\/creative-class-on-studio-360.html"},"modified":"2012-04-26T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:36:00","slug":"creative-class-on-studio-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/04\/creative-class-on-studio-360.html","title":{"rendered":"Creative Class on Studio 360"},"content":{"rendered":"

MY latest Salon story<\/a> on the plight of the creative class has gotten more attention than anything I’ve written this year — thanks to those who read and passed around this story.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“No Sympathy For the Creative Class,” as it’s called, looked at the distance between our assumptions about artists, musicians, writers, etc. and the reality of a life in the arts, especially during times that are hitting the creative class especially hard.\u00a0\u00a0In any case, it seemed to strike a nerve.<\/p>\n

So I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be on Studio 360<\/a> with Kurt Andersen over the weekend. (Times vary.) This is one of the nation’s finest arts\/culture shows, and it was a real pleasure to discuss these topics, however grim, with the SPY magazine co-founder.<\/p>\n

Kurt is an excellent interlocutor, and our conversation was lively. But I admit to being a bit tongue-tied when he asked me about solutions to our current plight. Part of what’s happening is structural, grounded in technological changes, and cannot be easily reversed. Part of it may budge with changes in thinking and doing.<\/p>\n

The simple answer, which I should have given Kurt, is that so far I have concentrated on the root causes and human, tangible effects of this new world we find ourselves in. As for a path out of the current crisis, to a less punishing world for creativity and culture, stay tuned. Ask me in six months.<\/p>\n

I’m also going to start posting small items that relate to my argument. Here’s a story<\/a> from UK’s The Guardian whose title is quite direct: “Other professionals don’t work for free. So why are writers expected to?” As someone who broke into journalism by writing for nothing, because I was told this was an important exercise in “dues paying,” and who continues to get offers to work for free,\u00a0this hits me particularly hard. I welcome comments on it.<\/p>\n

Thanks again for following these issues, folks, and see you on Studio 360. <\/p>\n

UPDATE: HERE<\/a> is the link to my interview, which broadcasts nationally over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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