Not Comics: Robert Boyd On Non-Code Art Spaces

The veteran arts writer Robert Boyd has a few thoughts on the kind of art spaces of the type that in Oakland was the scene of a fire and multiple, tragic deaths. I like Boyd's measured approach. I don't have anything significant to add to the debate, although I wish spaces were made available for art-making and related activities. I wish art were more important at a societal level.

My lingering old-man grumpiness in reading these articles probably comes from the conflation of the necessity of space for artists and the assumption that this must include parties. I'm not even averse to the idea -- I like parties, and I know how social cohesion reinforced through a social calendar can enervate an arts scene -- I just think that particular conflation could be pulled apart a bit more for greater clarity in how to move forward. I know that makes me sound 1000 years old. Nothing diminishes the heartbreak and tragedy of those deaths.

Update: Boyd wrote in to remind me that a lot of art inherently requires social gathering, which is of course true. It's not a very articulate point I'm struggling to make, and may even be a dumbassed one.
 
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