Re:Cities and Ambition (2008)
by k0mplex on Sunday January 19, 2014 @01:01AM
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Paul is describing an 80's New York. Paul doesn't use the word culture once in the essay. The word art only appears in reference to Europe and Paris. The strongest signal from New York is now much more about art, culture, and taste than about money.
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Re:Cities and Ambition (2008)
by michaelochurch on Sunday January 19, 2014 @10:31AM
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New York is all about money if you don't have it.
Actually, it's about real estate and legacy. Until you own a genuinely nice place (those start around $4 million) it's about real estate. After that, it's about preschool and grade school and making sure your kids have the connections to make something of themselves. Once those are shored up, it's about taste and the arts. Not before then, though, and most people don't get that far.
New York has been about art and culture for a very long time. That's because the artists are, economically speaking, a courtier class, and the best way for them to thrive (and therefore the best way to surround yourself with fellow full time working artists) is the locate yourself near the people with money.