Could crowdfunding make up the shortfall in artistic budgets or help more emerging artists?
The place is not unlike any student flat the world over, with its mishmash of furniture, piles of washing-up, brightly painted walls and the odd political poster, plus budget artistic touches such as the seashells that hang from the bathroom ceiling.
Has there been a tenure of an arts leader that has been characterized with as much change -- including changes of artistic leadership, rapid budget expansion and construction of a huge new facility -- yet with as little drama as Sharon's?
It was a bad week for Dutch new media artists as budget cuts hit, but a good week for digital maps as they become an artistic medium.
The armory plans to more than triple its budget for artistic productions, to $5 million by 2013, Mr. Poots's first season.
Dennis Rude, owner of Cathedral Stone Company in Hanover, Md., said that although weathering gives limestone a crust that is harder to cut, there is no reason that the blocks could not be carved now -- should budget and artistic sensibilities permit.
Though exceptions exist New Line's Lord of the Rings franchise won several Oscars a few years back nominations are typically awarded to the smaller budget, often artistic films, aptly dubbed Oscar bait, from the studio's specialty divisions (Paramount's Vantage or 20th Century Fox's Fox Searchlight, among others).
San Francisco was, he told me, "the capital of a new generation of pornography —bigger budget, more artistic and visible.
Donation-based ministries would fund some Christian movies, but with no theatrical release and little video store presence to make them lucrative, these movies would often play out as infomercials for the ministries themselves, with very little budget for artistic amenities.
