It's great the city claims to want to help artists out. Who doesn't want to help an artist out? But is it really that amazing when part of the plan is to decorate the Brooklyn Army and St. George Ferry terminals? Crain's reports that the Bloomberg administration is putting resources into local arts support:
"The new programs will give visual artists a chance to display their work in various city-owned properties, including the Brooklyn Army Terminal and St. George Ferry Terminal; provide free outdoor performance space in the city's parks; train 50 out-of-work entrepreneurial professionals to apply their skill sets to the nonprofit cultural world; help artists develop business plans and provide them with low-cost studio space; and provide $25,000 grants to each of two neighborhood “arts clusters” to help organizations draw audiences."
The low-cost studio space is probably the most important item on the list (the re-training sounds a bit dubious), but we're interested to see what sort of "art" is going to be hung to please the tourists...
