Poltergeist Theatre Project’s “The Julie Cycle” creators and actors Britt Lauer (left) and Chris Steele on in San Francisco. When the city announced last month that it planned to launch a pilot program to give 100 artists $1,000 monthly payments for six months, my hope for all the performers I write about and love was tinged with worry. I frequently see a couple of bad-faith arguments in response to the idea of state support of the arts, and I didn’t want them to hijack the conversation about a promising idea: Bad-faith argument No. 1: Artists’ work isn’t real work, […]
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