Bill Glahn – who you need to be reading, by the way – on the Minnesota Orchestra debacle as a bellwether for how Big Art gets funded:<\/p>\n
I suspect we will see more of the Minnesota Orchestra-type of dispute in the next few years. Since the financial crisis of 2008, the business models of a whole range of industries are no longer viable. Until we collectively figure out what\u2019s next, the irresistible forces of \u201cwe can\u2019t go on spending like this\u201d will be crashing up against the immovable objects of \u201cwe don\u2019t want to give up what\u2019s been ours for decades.\u201d A new model will eventually emerge to bring the fine arts to patrons. In the meantime, the adjustment period will be painful for everyone involved.<\/p>\n
If there is any good news, it\u2019s that the institutions and industries that go through the adjustment first will be best positioned later on. Those that cling to the failing system loner will end up in liquidation, rather than reorganization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If you support art (if not necessarily Big Art), it’s an interesting time, in the full Taoist sense of the term.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For starters, the biggest institution supporting Big Art – Big Academia – is also on the bring of an epochal shakeout.\u00a0 The era of Big Institutions Who Do Things For Your Own Good as a whole seems to be fizzling, slowly – up to and including that biggest Institution That Does Things For Our Own Good, Big Government.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I can’t imagine it means good things for Big Public Media – one of the other key patrons of Big Art – either.<\/p>\n
So what will the epic restructuring of Big Art mean for art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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