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Artsy ... Reaching out about truevaluemetrics.org ... and a bit of dialog about the value of art

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Peter Burgess

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Reaching out about truevaluemetrics.org
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theo.b@artsymail.com Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:00 AM
To: peterbnyc@gmail.com

Hi - my name is Theo, and I work at Artsy. While researching Yayoi Kusama, I found your page: http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBadmin/DBtxt001.php?vv1=txt00001900. I wanted to briefly tell you about Artsy's Yayoi Kusama page, and about our mission.

We strive to make all of the world’s art accessible to anyone online. Our Yayoi Kusama page, for example, provides visitors with Kusama's bio, over 95 of his works, exclusive articles, as well as up-to-date Kusama exhibition listings. The page even includes related artist & category tags, allowing viewers to continue exploring art beyond our Kusama page.

I’m contacting certain website & blog owners, and asking them to help us achieve our mission by adding a link to Artsy’s Yayoi Kusama page. In addition to spreading the word about our page, I believe your site visitors would enjoy this content.

If you are able to add a link to Artsy’s Kusama page, please let me know, as I’d love to share it with my team.

Best,

Theo

'I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.' -Yayoi Kusama

Peter Burgess Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:53 AM
To: theo.b@artsymail.com
Cc: Joe Mondello , John Kiehl

Dear Theo

On the TrueValueMetrics.org page you located, I have added a link to the Artsy Yayoi Kusama page ... and then done a certain amount of exploring through the artsy material as well.

I love your mission ... and it highlights something of what I am trying to do. There is, I argue, a value to the arts and culture that is not captured in the metrics that are being used to measure the progress and performance of the 'system' of which we are a part. Money and wealth are the dominant measures in our socio-enviro-economic system ... but these measures totally fail to capture the joy and happiness that flows through our lives, and makes lives worth living.

Metrics are important. As Peter Drucker is reported to have said ...'You manage what you measure'. We measure everything relative to money ... and if something does not get transacted in money, it is left out. Accordingly I am working to design an accounting system and metrics that go beyond money and profit to bring into account all the important things that have impact on quality of life and the impact there is on our fragile finite environment.

The value of art ... the value of music ... the value of dance ... the value of friends ... all of these are HUGE, but not part of the system of measurement that we use to assess the progress and performance of the system. These things survive because they are important but it is a struggle. Better metrics would help to make art a culture more central to the mainstream of the socio-enviro-economic system and make for a more flourishing world.

Imagine a world ... New York for example, with no music, no art, no dramatic art ... it would be a horrible concrete shell ... and the 'value' of New York would be tiny rather than huge!

Thank you ... I love what 'artsy' is doing

Peter
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