What's an Arts District without any art? Mostly condo buildings named after composers, restaurants with a $200 seafood tower, and Madam Butterfly as muzak. And what's a literary community without any literature? It's spending tens of thousands of dollars on an MFA so you can teach creativity workshops online. Jessa and Nico assess the wreckage left by Philadelphia's shocking University of the Arts closure, the rise of the creativity coach, and the monoculture of elite overproduction.

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The Artistic Age of Decline