From Bohemia to Bureaucracy
This New York Times article spotlights an interesting fella, Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Can he convince the Bush Adminstration that the arts matter? Can the NEA make any kind of difference at all in the wake of a burgeoning corporate media monopoly? From the article:
He does reserve one cheer for the cultural marketplace — he’s not a Republican for nothing. “If you create a system where the marketplace doesn’t operate in the arts,” he says, “it breeds a kind of institutional stagnation, which you see in a lot of European countries.” But he knows the perils: “If you put the marketplace entirely in charge of the arts, you see them very endangered” — as they are now.
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