{"id":4540,"date":"2020-08-29T06:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T06:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2020-08-29T06:14:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T06:14:37","slug":"amy-kurzweil-no-money-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/?p=4540","title":{"rendered":"Amy Kurzweil &#8211; No Money for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amy Kurzweil - No Money for the Arts\" width=\"1104\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3UfsY3IzmNY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the Music Real E120, Nicki chats with Award winning Author and Cartoonist Amy Kurzweil. Amy is the author of the graphic memoir&nbsp;<em>Flying Couch<\/em>&nbsp;named a 2016&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;Editor\u2019s Choice and a&nbsp;<em>Kirkus<\/em>&nbsp;Best Memoir of 2016. Her comics appear regularly in the&nbsp;<em>New Yorker<\/em>. Amy\u2019s cartoon \u2013 No Money For The Arts \u2013 was published in the New Yorker on 8 July perfectly articulated the very real challenge that now face millions of people around the world who work in the Arts with its headline: <em>\u201cI\u2019m sorry. Now that everyone\u2019s home reading, watching movies, educating themselves, and reflecting on the meaning of life, there\u2019s just no money for the arts.\u201d <\/em>We talk about her Lockdown experience in the US, the evolution of art as a virtual expression and expression post COVID, possible survival tips from her Grandmother\u2019s story in her book the Flying Couch and review the possibilities for the US in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with Amy Kurzweil:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amykurzweil.com\/\">http:\/\/amykurzweil.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmyKurzweilComix\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmyKurzweilComix\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amykurzweil\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/amykurzweil<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/cartoons\/daily-cartoon\/wednesday-july-8th-arts-funding\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/cartoons\/daily-cartoon\/wednesday-july-8th-arts-funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Music Real E120, Nicki chats with Award winning Author and Cartoonist Amy Kurzweil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[308,245,309],"class_list":["post-4540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episodes","tag-amy-kurzweil","tag-media","tag-no-money-for-the-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themusicreal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}