Advocacy
The eighth iteration of “Which Side?” was a wild success, mixing musical genres from reggae to old-school Boston punk and punctuated by two moving (and brief) speakers.
So now, along with hand-made candles, jewelry, and home goods, Etsy customers can sport tees, caps and download stickers with Alligator Alcatraz names and images.
“A play is political if its subject is taboo and its story mirrors, exposes, and critiques the suppression and repression that interferes with the treatment of a cultural disease. A political play is a problem that is ignored, denied, maligned. A political play is, by definition, unpopular.”
Abolishing cultural infrastructure and the deregulation of emerging technologies are two sides of the same anti-intellectual coin.
It is time for some fierce pushback from the artistic community and lovers of the arts to Generative AI Leaders.
Cultural Commentary: Death by Incorporation — Why Do Bean-Counters Run Arts Boards?
When corporate thinking dominates cultural institutions, the art often pays the price.
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