Can The Arts
Save Atlantic City?
By Gary Wien
The cliché has always been that
low rents attract artists to downtrodden areas that nobody else
wants and the artists wind up
playing a major role in the area’s
revival. Their reward is generally
to be priced out of those communities just when things get
New Jersey Stage
going. It’s a story that plays out
year after year in towns and cities across the country. Each time
it does, artists are left to wonder
why art can play such an important role in the local economy
yet artists are rarely, if ever, part
of actual community planning.
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