- The down side of being uber-talented: the sparkle and fade of a child prodigy violinist Patricia Travers who disappeared 60 years ago and recently died.
- Award winning gospel music family accused of selling fraudulent crude oil bonds to their church members. Just wrap your head around that one.
- We all know Detroit housing is cheap and artists need cheap rent, but can it live up to this Huffington Post prediction about being the next big arts metropolis by 2025? Laurie Lyons covers The Armory Show and more.
- What makes a novelist abandon his latest work for non-fiction? Economic meltdown. Author John Lancaster “wanted to write a book about finance and economics for a literate public that felt alienated.” To get a taste of what he’s got rattling around in his mind and in his new book,
To illustrate just how big this unresolved debt threat has become, Lanchester (along with others) estimated that the total cost of the financial system bailout in the United States is bigger, in inflation-adjusted terms, than the combined cost of the Louisiana Purchase (in 1803, by President Thomas Jefferson), the New Deal (the 1930s), the Marshall Plan (1948-52), the Korean War (1950-53), the Vietnam War (1961-75), the savings and loan crisis (the 1980s), the invasion of Iraq (2003) and the entire NASA program, including the moon landings.
- Burning Man message board adds a topic devoted to Art and Economics, if you like that sort of thing.
Tags: Art, Detroit, Economics, Fiscal Viability in the Arts
