Comments on: Art is for everyone! The people are at your door! http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/10/art-is-for-everyone-the-people-are-at-your-door/ Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anu http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/10/art-is-for-everyone-the-people-are-at-your-door/comment-page-1/#comment-114058 Anu Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:22:30 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=33843#comment-114058 The Center for Responsive Philanthropy just published a study demonstrating the disproportionate funding of cultural institutions that serve an affluent audience vs community-based organizations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/arts-funding-report_n_1003065.html

Tax-exempt funds support culture as a leisure and social activity for the wealthy, and private art schools profit while students take on debt and jobs for artists vanish. The problems in the art world are not restricted to the commercial sector, I’m afraid.

]]> By: Frank Lostaunau http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/10/art-is-for-everyone-the-people-are-at-your-door/comment-page-1/#comment-114046 Frank Lostaunau Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:17:19 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=33843#comment-114046 How about a sit out? Nobody visit the museum for a week. Encourage anybody about to enter to stay outside and participate in a workshop about what it means to make a museum more “democratic”.

“Art is for everyone!” yeah right…

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