Thursday, April 03, 2008
Business-like arts a failure, says entrepreneur
smh.com: "FILLING the boards of arts companies with business appointees has been a dismal failure that has stifled creativity."
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I resent the assumption by our society that "business people" are innately better and smarter than artists. This reminds me very much of when Ting Chang told us in Critical Histories that she knew that as simple CFA students, we couldn't possibly be expected to handle a lecture class.
Artists are smart and can handle more than a paintbrush if they're worth anything.
The "problem" with arts organizations is that very often time and money can't be as neatly budgeted and tracked. Heavy management and business structures tend to stifle the creative end, forcing them to meet unrealistic and limiting goals for their resources. We saw this problem with Disney Imagineering. Big business men ran the show, and the artists fought to keep their heads, and projects, above water.
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