Posts Tagged ‘arts’
A national research strategy.
What Canada needs right now is to determine its research priorities and invest heavily in the kinds of research for which we will become known as world leaders. We cannot afford to be all things to all people, or to fall back on the "curiosity-driven" model of research, where you simply support your best researchers and let them go wherever their [...]
Why Are Artists Poor? 2
Hans Abbing's book Why Are Artists Poor? should be assigned reading for every art student because it talks about the place of art and the artist in society in practical ways, from the viewpoint of the economist, somewhat objective, from ten stories up as Abbing puts it. Abbing, who is both a visual artist and an economist, gives us a view we in [...]
