So, Canada, did we get our $300,000,000.00 worth tonight? As Rick Mercer just mentioned on the CBC, the only national leader that emerged with any strength from this election was Gilles Duceppe, and he's the leader of a separatist party.
(I could have used that money to make art for at least the next 3 months and buy oodles of blow for all my friends. But not for Ordinary Canadians. It's cheap meth for you, and stay away from my glittering galas.)
Me at glittering gala. I am so lovely. So elite. So unattainable.
I just discovered a couple of days ago that the fine print on our twenty dollar bill says, "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?"
since we're chosing our gala outfits, here's mine:
b/t/w someone loves Christie Blatchford, a fun thread to follow.
augh. I'd been doing my best not to spend energy on that particular piece of Blatchford babble.
its kind of a legit question, though.
Do you mean the question: "Does art matter?" I don't think that column by Blatchford has enough bearing on the way arts are actually funded to formulate a legitimate question about gov't and the arts. But, Anthony, I'm curious what you mean.
Been in the states too long - $300,000,000.00 for an election seems like a good deal, not matter how pointless. Maybe it's just that I have have huge number fatigue after the last few weeks of financial news.
Sally, you'll notice that "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?" does leave room for "Yes we could, now go buy some ice cream with this money and quit complaining"
my kingdom for an edit button. Or even just preview. Oh well. I no grammer or spell with wellness.
i mean, the question:
why should government pay for the arts, or why should biz pay for the arts, or even why should artists pay for the arts...
the question(s) that result in the intersection between commerce, government, and the creative fields, have been approached but not seriously engaged with this election, but then they rarely are.
Anthony, you might enjoy this lecture by John Holden on "The Value of Culture." He's from England, but of course they have an intersection between commerce, government, and the creative fields too.
For current funding cuts and election-specific chawing over arts funding I'd recommend browsing through simpleposie's links from the past few weeks. She's been super thorough about keeping tabs on it all.
Barbara Jenkins has a good essay from 2005 available online Toronto's Cultural Renaissance.
Anna Hudson wrote a great essay about how these issues screw up museum mandates: "New! Improved! The rhetoric of relevancy in a construction boom," MUSE XXIV/3 (2006), 38-41. It's not online unfortunately.
Joester, I have to say I kind of agree with the statement on the $20 dollar bill. I make a funny face and you laugh. I make a sad face, and you still laugh. But at least you get the point of the performance. It's a bit circular, really. In order to be conscious beings we need to know other people. Knowing other people means making culture.
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- L.M. 10-15-2008 5:38 am
I just discovered a couple of days ago that the fine print on our twenty dollar bill says, "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?"
- M.Jean 10-15-2008 1:38 pm
since we're chosing our gala outfits, here's mine:
- sally mckay 10-15-2008 3:13 pm
b/t/w someone loves Christie Blatchford, a fun thread to follow.
- L.M. 10-15-2008 4:23 pm
augh. I'd been doing my best not to spend energy on that particular piece of Blatchford babble.
- sally mckay 10-15-2008 5:02 pm
its kind of a legit question, though.
- anthony (guest) 10-16-2008 1:09 am
Do you mean the question: "Does art matter?" I don't think that column by Blatchford has enough bearing on the way arts are actually funded to formulate a legitimate question about gov't and the arts. But, Anthony, I'm curious what you mean.
- sally mckay 10-16-2008 4:31 am
Been in the states too long - $300,000,000.00 for an election seems like a good deal, not matter how pointless. Maybe it's just that I have have huge number fatigue after the last few weeks of financial news.
Sally, you'll notice that "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?" does leave room for "Yes we could, now go buy some ice cream with this money and quit complaining"
- joester (guest) 10-16-2008 7:02 pm
my kingdom for an edit button. Or even just preview. Oh well. I no grammer or spell with wellness.
- joester (guest) 10-16-2008 7:04 pm
i mean, the question:
why should government pay for the arts, or why should biz pay for the arts, or even why should artists pay for the arts...
the question(s) that result in the intersection between commerce, government, and the creative fields, have been approached but not seriously engaged with this election, but then they rarely are.
- anthony (guest) 10-16-2008 8:33 pm
Anthony, you might enjoy this lecture by John Holden on "The Value of Culture." He's from England, but of course they have an intersection between commerce, government, and the creative fields too.
For current funding cuts and election-specific chawing over arts funding I'd recommend browsing through simpleposie's links from the past few weeks. She's been super thorough about keeping tabs on it all.
Barbara Jenkins has a good essay from 2005 available online Toronto's Cultural Renaissance.
Anna Hudson wrote a great essay about how these issues screw up museum mandates: "New! Improved! The rhetoric of relevancy in a construction boom," MUSE XXIV/3 (2006), 38-41. It's not online unfortunately.
- sally mckay 10-17-2008 5:27 pm
Joester, I have to say I kind of agree with the statement on the $20 dollar bill. I make a funny face and you laugh. I make a sad face, and you still laugh. But at least you get the point of the performance. It's a bit circular, really. In order to be conscious beings we need to know other people. Knowing other people means making culture.
- sally mckay 10-17-2008 6:06 pm