A Survey Shows Pain of Recession for Artists – NYTimes.com

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A Survey Shows Pain of Recession for Artists

A major new survey of American artists and how they are weathering the economic downturn has found that slightly more than half experienced a drop in income from 2008 to 2009.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/arts/design/24study.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Many of the findings — that working artists tend to work day jobs to support themselves; that more than a third don’t have adequate health insurance; that musicians and architects tend to do better than writers and painters — simply provide statistical support for what artists themselves have long known.