United States Artists cash give away

If your name is on this list - you are 50k richer to make more art!

LAtimes...Three of the 10 awards in the visual arts category went to Angelenos (four went to New Yorkers). Fifty arts fellows -- including an L.A. poet and a musician in San Diego County -- were named nationwide; they work in eight different genres -- dance, music, theater, architecture and design, literature, media and crafts and traditional arts. Each fellow will receive a a $50,000 prize from the United States Artists advocacy group in ceremonies today in Chicago. The L.A. visual artists being honored are Michael Asher, Andrea Bowers and Rodney McMillian...

at least someone's making $$

Olafur Eliasson’s New York City Waterfalls...NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg has wasted no time in spreading the news that the project was a phenomenal economic success, trumpeting that it made the city an estimated $69 million, above the initial projection of $55 million...artnetnews