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The contribution of cultural heritage
In terms of economic policy, cultural heritage has generally been considered as a cost to society; a financial burden tolerated, principally, as a moral duty. Museums, ancient monuments, historic buildings, parks, gardens and cultural landscapes have been maintained at public cost – as places that have not, with a few […]
A real difficult century
I recently read an article (on The Huffington Post, April, 6, 2015) about the imminent retirement of a local government arts council executive in the United States. The article pointed out the many challenges that this executive faced over the past decade. It made me realize how difficult the 21st […]
“Don’t sell your family silver”?
The director of the Münster art museum here dreads the idea of losing some of his town’s biggest cultural attractions. He worries about a Henry Moore sculpture that has been on exhibition for almost 40 years, knowing it could vanish along with Renaissance panels and Eduardo Chillida benches in a […]
The Social responsability of Art
For the past few years, like a lot of other people, I’ve been preoccupied — sometimes to the point of obsession, lost sleep, free-floating dread and active despair — by the economic state of the world. I spend more time than is healthy pondering the global labor market, the minimum […]