The Inaugural Curb Lecture sponsored by Vanderbilt’s Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy featured Leonard Garment, president of the National Jazz Museum planned for Harlem, who demystified the business of the arts and called for a new model of collaboration between non-profit arts organizations and the entertainment industry. Garment says non-profit and commercial arts sectors view themselves as competitors and are consumed with “placing blame and finger-pointing.” He cited successful examples of “imaginative collaboration” and urged that arts policy must change to discourage this competitive relationship. Garment, author of Crazy Rhythm and In Search of Deep Throat, noted jazz saxophonist and former legal counsel and assistant to President Richard Nixon following the resignation of John Dean, spoke at 4:10 p.m. on Sept. 12 in Vanderbilt’s Featheringill Hall.
According to Center Director Bill Ivey, former chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts, “Garment is one of the most versatile and thoughtful cultural observers in the nation, and his remarks promise to be lively.” The Curb Center is the first university-based policy program to fully explore the sources of cultural policy in the United States.
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