{"id":1811,"date":"2009-02-11T17:31:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T15:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2009-02-11T17:31:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T15:31:45","slug":"bill-ivey-and-the-obama-arts-transition-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/bill-ivey-and-the-obama-arts-transition-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Ivey and the Obama Arts Transition Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Rosenbaum aka CultureGrrl spoke to Bill Ivey this week (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturegrrl\/2009\/02\/arts_politico_interview_with_b.html\">Art Politico: My Interview with Bill Ivey, Leader of President Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Arts Transition Team &#8211; CultureGrrl<\/a>) Money Quote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There are some advantages for artists and arts organizations to position themselves as unique, especially entitled, especially important. But I think there are also advantages to seeing artists and art organizations as regular parts of the economy. Artists are important workers. Arts organizations are important small and medium-sized businesses. I think if we consider them that way, particularly in this environment, we may get more benefit than if we play the exceptionalism card.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturegrrl\/2009\/02\/arts_politico_interview_with_b.html\">read more<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Rosenbaum aka CultureGrrl spoke to Bill Ivey this week (Art Politico: My Interview with Bill Ivey, Leader of President Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Arts Transition Team &#8211; CultureGrrl) Money Quote: There are some advantages for artists and arts organizations to position themselves as unique, especially entitled, especially important. But I think there are also advantages to seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-news-and-politics","category-re-blog-tidbits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-td","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":753,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/artthrob-and-the-south-african-arts-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":1811,"position":0},"title":"Artthrob and the south african arts media","author":"nathaniel","date":"06 September 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I think it may have been yesterday that I posted the available job at artthrob. 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