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Sally has gone horseback riding. Discuss.
A friendly reminder (via Von Bark) for any of us who forget to read Bookninja: read Bookninja. This recent thread about Margaret Atwood's Globe & Mail essays on arts funding might be the most sophisticated arts funding debate I've ever seen. Even the internet-obligatory just-looking-out-for-me-and-mine dude has some thorough and complex insights. My favourite bits, however, are embedded in George Murray's response. Excerpt...
Artists have always been supported by the tribe/lord/town/government. Art is not a business. It can’t be run that way. It’s not a free market of supply and demand. And despite history’s filtering, it’s not Darwinian on the macro level of present day. If it was, it would all be cartoons, dogs playing poker, corporate sculptures, Brittany Spears and John Grisham novels. And we would all be working in art sweatshops for a few cents an hour and another part of you would be crying for our liberation from oppression.note: L.M. and I re-posted both of Atwood's essays in the comment thread here.