The lesson of the Trump victory for the art world
November 13, 2016 Trump for president. Who would have thought so. More people than you think. The dichotomy in the US is stronger than we wanted to acknowledge. Alie Hochschild wrote a wonderful book about it:. Strangers in Their own country a divide between the high...The art of funding the arts
October 22 2016 The combination of art and money is and remains interesting. In earlier times, an artist had a client and was paid per job, if he was employed by a rich man, a patron, he produced works in paid employment. The best art works produced this way we can...The Art of Impact, a program without impact?
The Art of Impact: the Dutch two-year program of € 7 million subsidizing art projects with social impact in two rounds. At the first round, there were 428 applications and 36 projects were approved, in the second round 50 projects from the 290 applications received...The challenge for crowdfunding in the cultural sector
Thursday, February 11 I was one of the panelists at the crowdfunding cafe Crowdfundinghub. A lot of discussion about the possibilities of crowdfunding in the cultural and creative sector. Afterwards I want to share a few thoughts. Crowdfunding is a rapidly growing...David Byrne against Spotify
David Byrne (ex-Talking Heads) speaks out against Spotify. Why? Revenues go mostly to record labels and almost nothing to artists. So he has taken most of his work off Spotify. Also Adele has her doubts when launching her new album. David goes further to say that if...