{"id":1784,"date":"2015-01-02T16:21:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T00:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2015-01-02T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T00:21:43","slug":"enjoying-the-benefits-of-old-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2015\/01\/enjoying-the-benefits-of-old-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying the benefits of old money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/baltimore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/baltimore-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"nice orchestra you have there\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/baltimore-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/baltimore.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t disagree with the assessment by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2015\/01\/cheap_high_culture_in_baltimore_buffalo_detroit_and_other_midsize_cities.html\">Alec MacGillis<\/a> at <em>Slate<\/em> that that rust-belt cities offer fine high culture opportunities at low prices: riches from the turn of the last century provided capital (physical, human, institutional) that created great organizations, that can, at least for the time being, survive on endowment funds and relatively low amounts of &#8216;earned income&#8217;. But my reaction is somewhat similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2014\/12\/should-nonprofit-museums-have-free-admission-because-they-are-tax-exempt\/\">one I had<\/a> reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/la-et-cm-ca-knight-art-essay-20141221-column.html\">Christopher Knight<\/a>&#8216;s recent piece arguing that museums ought to be &#8216;free&#8217; &#8211; i.e. that the heavy costs of housing, maintaining, restoring, researching, acquiring and presenting art ought to be borne not by the people who actually come to the museum and view the art, but by someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Elite art is overwhelmingly consumed by, well, the elites, in terms of higher education and income, and yet somehow the expense of maintaining these organizations is seen as something to be borne by taxpayers at large, or from donors past and present. I generally resist the calls often found in social media and blogs about the need for &#8216;new business models&#8217; in the arts, but if the sentiment I am seeing is the <em>current<\/em> business model, then yes, eventually something new will be required. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can&#8217;t go on forever selling $3 beers and $15 tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t disagree with the assessment by Alec MacGillis at Slate that that rust-belt cities offer fine high culture opportunities at low prices: riches from the turn of the last century provided capital (physical, human, institutional) that created great organizations, that can, at least for the time being, survive on endowment funds and relatively low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1787,"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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-issues","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/baltimore.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dIW5-sM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}