Is corporate sponsorship killing the arts?
At this event I felt like someone from another planet, who had a completely different value system, to the assembled panel and, audience. There were about 6 people on the panel, consisting of a cross section of the “art” world, artist, media, lecturer, arts’ council. Here again the War hadn’t’ happened. The audience and panel alike, ignored and seemed to be ignorant of two facts, as they discussed the ups and downs of corporate sponsorship. One is, the president of the United States, far from being democratically elected, was put in power by corporations, and the other was, the recent slaughter in Iraq, was perpetrated at the behest of corporations. Can the discerning artist be ignorant of how corporations work? If so, he or she should try a search on the internet. Type in “corporations, arts” and in a short time the artist, will have some serious concerns and reservations, concerning, the aims of art’s sponsorship, by corporations – “…Among Neuron’s woes surrounding its collapse las
