(Cross-posted from the NEA’s Art Works blog. The version that appears there was edited for length; this is the original.)
I’ve been waiting for a while to respond to the controversy that erupted after Rocco Landesman’s comments on supply and demand in the arts at Arena Stage in January. (A good round-up of the situation by [...]
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So Rocco really stepped in it. The NEA Chairman is under siege because he dared to suggest that perhaps there’s an oversupply of arts organizations relative to the (well-documented) dwindling demand. He’s not the first to bring this up, but it surprised a lot of folks that he used his bully pulpit to express an [...]
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Tags: NEA, Rocco Landesman, supply and demand
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