Now here's a provocative comment: "Investing in the arts and culture produces more significant economic returns than just about any investment President Obama is making in "shovel ready" projects. Or many other "bailouts" we might see around the country and across the globe."
This is from an article by Russell Bishop in today's Huffington Post. Please read it! And then think about it, and talk about it ---
There ARE economic arguments for supporting the arts. Should we be using them? Or are we, by using them, copping out? Those who want the economic arguments used say that we should use the arguments that can best be heard by the people (elected leaders, for instance) who can make change.
Others, though, say we need to stick with making the case that the arts are, plain and simply, crucial for all of us because they are the arts. Because they open us up to creation, and possibility, and imagination, and puzzlement, and beauty, and (even) ugliness.
Do you take a side here? Which one? Can we have both?
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