National Arts Month – Are You Celebrating Yet?

Here it is the last week of October, and this is the first we here at ArtsJournal have heard of the thing. “Apparently the celebration has been held every year since 1993. Organizers believed a monthlong national celebration would give fellow Americans the opportunity to explore new facets of the arts and humanities in their lives. Presumably they had thoroughly explored the old ones. More than likely, though, they saw the arts as decorative adjuncts to life. Interesting — informative, even — but not essential.”