Paul Davis wrote:
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 6:49 AM, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Snobbery in action. I think Europe has an advantage over America when it
comes to art. There's a lot more interest in and support for art all over
Europe than there is here. I think part of it is that in America a number of
art forms now appear to be supported solely via government or other grants
doled out by small groups of people who quite gave up caring what anyone
else thinks. They've become their own little "cool in-groups." (See comments
above about teen herds?)
I think (based on my experience living in Berlin 18 months ago, and
growing up in the UK, but having lived in the US for 21 years) that
you have this backwards.
Non-commercial art is *vastly* more subsidized by grants in Europe
than in the US, and there is a really strong belief that its part of
the role of government, or even more broadly, society as a whole, to
support "stuff that doesn't necessarily sell". The audiences are
small, but committed. In the US, this sort of thing seems to be
entirely audience-supported, which is to say not very supported at
all.
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Paul,
As a european musician I agree with you that music, classical especially
but also jazz and folk and many other types of music and art (dance,
stage, etc) are subsidised but there is a reason. We have a different
view, governmentally, on culture. I don't think - but I'm ignorant in
this aspect - that the US government ( or state government) give money
for cultural aspects. Here ( in the Netherlands) we have a Ministry of
Culture so politicians determine what is culture (music, art, dance,
etc.) (even worse civil servants are responsible for the implementation)
and squander money as they deem fit and in our country everything is
done by "committees" who get subsidised and who not. So if you are not a
favourite of (someone in) the committee than you're out of luck. In
short, it is an in crowd method of dispersing favours (like the former
kings did) only loosely related to quality.
(but I an a cynic).
Joep
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