Re: Arts Notes [Nov. 15-22]

Treat art like a business? Excuse me, but this is what young artists are being trained to do as part and parcel of being an artist.

Whereas becoming an artist a few years ago meant learning history, technique, and mediums, it now means networking, competition, business proposals, and commodification. Artists have been bought off by the Canada Council and other arts councils for so long they no longer have any integrity as a community.

> Lenore Herb / Vancouver