Another article of interest comes from The Independent this time. It tells of the case of a county council arts officer having to censor the work of the artist she’s exhibiting so that it does not offend the council staff who provided the funds and the space for the exhibition.
Aside from the fact that the issue may not have been best handled, it also brought home to me the position arts managers can find themselves in , having to perform a type of balancing act in order to keep all the various stakeholders happy. It reminded me of the documentary on the Glor centre that we watched in our very first management class. The managers in both cases had to walk a fine line to accommodate various people who all contribute to the arts process – be they council or board members, employees, managers, artists, or the general public themselves.
It must be quite difficult to preserve artistic integrity in trying to negotiate all these relationships.
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