Who Pays for the Arts?

Re:Who Pays for the Arts? by wpietri on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:29PM (#41732830)

That strikes me as likely to do more harm than good, and research is a good example. We already have major problems with research quality because publication quantity has risen as important metric. I can't think of a metric for art quality that wouldn't introduce all sorts of terrible incentives and disincentives.

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Re:Who Pays for the Arts? by fragmede on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:39PM (#41733557)

So the alternative is nothing? If someone's receiving funding to create art, asking them to show that they've done something with that money and that they're not just buying booze/drugs and throwing parties for them and their friends with the money that the government is giving them to create art doesn't seem like asking too much.

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Re:Who Pays for the Arts? by HappMacDonald on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:58PM (#41733762)

Given my understanding of the modern state of Art, they would simply pivot to making the parties be the artform.

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Re:Who Pays for the Arts? by fragmede on Saturday October 05, 2024 @07:23PM (#41753608)

Well, as long as I'm invited :)

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Re:Who Pays for the Arts? by wpietri on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:22PM (#41734574)

That seems like a false dichotomy to me. Aren't there more ways to run things than a binary "user narrow numeric KPIs" vs "people doing absolutely anything"?

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