Articles by Paul Nagle
Downtown Strategies
More and more, arts and culture have instrumental functions to perform in economic development and community building, above and beyond the intrinsic spiritual value they provide. We cannot allow the discussion of arts funding and infrastructure needs (housing, insurance, performance and exhibition space, etc.) to be treated as peripheral to conversations about arts-led urban revitalizations. Policymakers in charge of the Lower Manhattan...
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Fashioning a Cultural Policy versus a Cultural Fashion Policy
Why have the worthy National Endowment goals of access and democratization, pluralism, excellence and a leveraging imprimatur all become merely processes of validating “taste?†It seems that no matter who controls the social discourse, culture is always in the process of being used as a weapon of domination. As the social pendulum swings, the Weimar whores and drag queens, with their pale sunken cheeks and their eyes smeared with...
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