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It isn't, and only someone who mostly consumes art but doesn't create it says otherwise. The possible exceptions being artists already regally compensated and u
by zeruch 5y ago
It isn't, and only someone who mostly consumes art but doesn't create it says otherwise. The possible exceptions being artists already regally compensated and upset they aren't making more (e.g. Don Henley)
Take any city of cosmopolitan reputation, and take away their public arts programs and presence, and I guarantee in a generation, they will wither out, as the prestige/tourist status and even business status will decline.
Take a city like San Jose where I live; smaller neighbors Oakland and SF have vibrant ecosystems between creatives and public works that fosters their reputations as places worth seeing. SJ has a small but active community that largely has to scrap for their own, such that its largely overlooked to the point that most of its best talent only gets known after it leaves for cities that will recognize them and provide tools an opptys for them (e.g. Cellista, Peanut Butter Wolf, etc). And even SF is pricing out creatives, such that many are booking for Oakland or out of state to continue.
The arts are poorly funded, and in the few places they do better, tends to be in old bunkers where socialites can 'invest'/launder their money and get a surname placed on a building.
- pronlover723 5y agoApparently you've defined "the arts" as things people don't want to pay for and hence you think the government should pay for them. I define the arts as things artist make. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+art+of+spiderman https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+art+of+spiderman https://www.amazon.com/Art-Matrix-Newmarket-Pictorial-Moviebook/dp/1557044058/ https://www.amazon.com/Art-Matrix-Newmarket-Pictorial-Movieb... https://www.amazon.com/Art-Ratatouille-Karen-Paik/dp/0811858340/ https://www.amazon.com/Art-Ratatouille-Karen-Paik/dp/0811858... https://www.amazon.com/Art-Sleeves-Album-Covers-Artists/dp/0847868877/ https://www.amazon.com/Art-Sleeves-Album-Covers-Artists/dp/0... https://www.amazon.com/Magazine-Power-Photography-Katherine-Bussard/dp/0300250886/ https://www.amazon.com/Magazine-Power-Photography-Katherine-... > only someone who mostly consumes art but doesn't create it says otherwise. I've created art that has collectively sold to 20-30 million people. Have several titles to my name and have hundreds of artist friends making $70k-$150k + royalties across various industries. I can look at the credits list of any movie or video game and see hundreds, sometimes thousands more. Also have friends doing patreon, etsy, and youtube making a living making art. "The Arts" are doing just fine.
- CRConrad 5y ago> I define the arts as things artist make. And "artist" as "anyone who manages to sell some shit that doesn't fit into any other category", judging from your links? Your reasoning feels just as wrong as the GP's.
- zeruch 5y ago""The Arts" are doing just fine. " No, you are doing fine. You are not the entirety of the space, but thanks for playing.