Closing Image: May 15, 2019
The NEA released Artists and Other Cultural Workers: A Statistical Portrait, summarizing data it tracks on 11 distinct artist occupations.
Day: May 15, 2019
Hot Sheet Index: May 15, 2019
The Hot Sheet Index reviewed the percentage of artists and other workers who are self-employed. There are more self-employed artists.
Links of Interest: May 15, 2019
Traditional Publishing Large educational publishers McGraw-Hill and Cengage to merge. The resulting company will become the second largest provider of textbooks and higher-education learning materials in the United States. Both companies are private-equity owned and heavily in debt. Read Jim Milliot in Publishers Weekly. For industry insider commentary, read Michael Cairns’s blog post,
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