This happens with every economic downturn

A journalist is schocked, shocked! to see the art that his tax dollars pay for. At least this article is local. But a few thoughts:

1. I would hope a professional writer--especially one working hard to question the public value of art--would write better copy than this.

2. At the right of the story, I see that the Most Popular story of the day is "son shoots father in the head," followed by "family terrorized during home invasion," "family mourns boy's death, mom's coma," "deputies in gun battle with suspect," and "suspected street race kills two women." So you see the audience he has to deal with. Maybe Houston art just isn't violent enough for our tastes?

2 comments:

Tim Vaughan said...

I have no comment on his idea of "appropriate" art, but the corruption thing sounds pretty bad. I mean, we've already got to deal with corruption in our businesses, our politicians and our school districts. Now it's in our art as well? It's hard to swallow.

Tim Vaughan said...

By the way, there's an error in the link. it tries to add an extra "http//" to the url. So if you want to look at this, just fix it manually.