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...York in the global economy, they immediately think of Wall Street. But that's not the whole story. In 2005 the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank, issued a study of the city's cultural sector, which it defined broadly to include art, design, music, theater and dance, as well as TV and film production, architecture, publishing, fashion and even advertising. It found that taken together those professions were second only to financial services as an economic force, employing 309,000 people, or more than 8% of the New York City work force...
...Seagull at night and still make the rent shooting a TV spot during the day. Meanwhile, a critical mass of institutions of higher education - the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Parsons School of Design, the Julliard School of Music, the School of American Ballet - are constantly training new cadres...
...that nothing can resist the gilded wrecking ball of the developers. But the struggle to find some way out will determine whether New York remains a city where you can see Seurat, Pinter and Wagner all in one week, or become a place where the only music that counts is the jingle of coins...
...people mingle. The importance of "proximity" to sustaining the arts economy of New York is one of the main premises of a recent book, The Warhol Economy, by Elizabeth Currid, a young social scientist. Currid spent months interviewing people in the creative professions, with a heavy emphasis on fashion, music and other pop-oriented fields. She concludes that "cultural producers rely heavily on their social lives to advance their careers, obtain jobs and generate value for their goods...
...popular and political mind, pop culture and conservative Christianity are separated like church and state. Britney, The Da Vinci Code and MTV are here; homeschooling, Left Behind and praise music are there. What God hath put asunder, let not man attempt to join...