Volunteers fired

[Doctor Phibes]

Imagine for a moment if you will what would happen if a white woman noticed that all her volunteers were black, and fired them due to a lack of diversity in the workforce.

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[mark]

Why are so many people in positions of power, so freaking stupid?

[taiwan_girl]

Goofy.

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in Volunteers fired:

Goofy.

Diverse!

[Axtremus]

Forget the Art institute. Redeploy the resources towards reducing crime, reducing homelessness, improving basic services, etc. And by "resources," I also include the volunteers. Art museum is luxury. Chicago (and many big cities) needs the basics more.

[Jolly]

@axtremus said in Volunteers fired:

Forget the Art institute. Redeploy the resources towards reducing crime, reducing homelessness, improving basic services, etc. And by "resources," I also include the volunteers. Art museum is luxury. Chicago (and many big cities) needs the basics more.

Absolutely.

Arm the old ladies...

[kluurs]

It seems like a short-sighted strategy as those folks and others like them are a source of planned giving. Obviously, it is also a bad PR move. "Engagement" has become one of the new buzzwords for organizations - but many organizations screw up the concept.

[Aqua Letifer]

@axtremus said in Volunteers fired:

Art museum is luxury.

So is English, it appears.

[Jolly]

Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.

Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.

[Mik]

@jolly said in Volunteers fired:

Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.

Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.

And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in Volunteers fired:

Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.

I'd say it's far more important than that. There's a direct connection between how advanced a society is, and its advancement in the arts.

When we went to the moon, Slaughterhouse Five was published; Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, True Grit, the Wild Bunch, and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service were in theatres; and Space Oddity, the Who’s Tommy, and In the Court of the Crimson King hit the record stores.

Look at what we had in the past couple years. Who were the poet laureates? Which new books were most celebrated? Which movies were most seen? Which songs were played the most on Spotify?

We need art history now more than ever. We need to remember what we're capable of.

[Aqua Letifer]

@mik said in Volunteers fired:

@jolly said in Volunteers fired:

Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.

Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.

And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.

Shit just look at his movie recommendations. That's what you get when you have that mentality.

[Copper]

@aqua-letifer said in Volunteers fired:

We need art history now more than ever.

Yes, we do.

[Jolly]

@mik said in Volunteers fired:

@jolly said in Volunteers fired:

Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.

Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.

And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.

It doesn't make sense. Ax is a pretty accomplished pianist. There has to be some there, there. How can you make music without soul, beauty, pain and passion?

[Mik]

Very true. His music is lovely. Yet what he often advocates is, in my view, a very soulless world. Could be just playing devil's advocate.

[Jolly]

Yes, he does like to watch the butterflies after he shakes the glass jar...

[Horace]

Most of his posts are at least half kidding.

[Doctor Phibes]

Yeah, Ax spends most of his time here joking around, and people take it seriously, which is actually funnier.

[Axtremus]

@mik said in Volunteers fired:

@jolly said in Volunteers fired:

Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.

Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.

And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.

Pfffttt ... to think that you folks are generally more enthusiastic about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts than I am.

[Doctor Phibes]

@axtremus said in Volunteers fired:

Pfffttt ... to think that you folks are generally more enthusiastic about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts that I am.

It turns out that the best way to get conservatives to fight for the arts is to lay-off a bunch of unpaid white people.