New York in Danger of Losing Its Artists, Study Finds

12.03.07 – Annie Karni reports in the New York Sun that a new study of visual artists between the ages of sixty-two and ninety-seven paints a dire picture of the life of older working artist in New York: A large percentage of aging artists are more educated than the general public but earn a median income of thirty thousand dollars. They are able to live and work in the city only because of rent-controlled or rent-stabilized apartments, and many have made no preparations for their artwork after their death and have no estate plans or wills. The findings of the report were conducted by the Research Center for Arts and Culture at Columbia University’s Teachers College. “New York is at risk if we lose that creative community,” said Theodore Berger, a former executive director of the New York Foundation for the Arts and the current project director of Urban Arts Initiative. “We risk becoming what Paris has become: filled with wonderful institutions, but with no living, breathing community.”

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~ by Stampfli & Turci on December 5, 2007.