Culture
Artists Are Starving While Museum Directors Cash $2 Million — The Culture Industry Is Eating Itself Alive
The U.S. arts funding crisis has escalated beyond simple budget cuts into a structural collapse of the entire cultural ecosystem. From the attempted abolition of the NEA to museums slashing exhibition budgets and forcing artists to self-fund their own shows, a system that funnels money to the top while starving the people who actually make art is killing culture from the inside out.