So the WAGE survey results are out and I’m looking forward to seeing the details. As a stop gap – a blog post about it, taster below: “The fact is that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) devotes less than 2% of its meager budget to direct grants to individual artists. State arts agencies spend only 3% of their grant dollars on individual artists. The bulk of philanthropy in the arts goes to only 2% of the nation’s arts institutions, who are among those with the largest budgets. And we know that many of those institutions don’t pay the artists whose work they show. Everybody keeps shifting the responsibility of sustaining artists (the real lifeblood of the arts) to some other group; meanwhile, the money keeps finding its way into the coffers of the few who hold the most power and the purse strings.” http://t.co/1M3hZhpG
I also can’t let this link get away as it has made me laugh so much today.
http://artstarstv.com/post/21143426887/curator-por…
A blog post in which we see the amazing press pictures of Documenta’s curator – her ego perhaps getting a little large….
Morning!
I am alive, but with some ill health, moving house and being without internet at home for 3 weeks now, I have been a bit AWOL to say the least. Sorry about that.
Gonna start the blogging lightly and use other people’s materials today :D
First up – a great blog post by Alistair Gentry on Market Project about real residencies versus art holidays parading themselves as residencies. This has been worrying me for some time and when I saw this opportunity the other week I was astonished – a whole new breed of these it seems.
The ‘opportunity’:
http://curatorcharlie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/artis…
The blog post:
http://www.marketproject.org.uk/the-customer-is-al…
Second – W.A.G.E. are presenting the results of their huge 2010 survey of artists in New York this week. Promises to be a very revealing and interesting document. I wish I WISH I could go to New York for the open forum on Friday!
A taster quote for now:
“58% of artists who exhibited at a New York non-profit organization between 2005 and 2010 received no form of payment, compensation or reimbursement – including the coverage of any expenses.”
2010 W.A.G.E. Artists Survey
