{"id":440459,"date":"2026-08-22T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440459\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:44:08","slug":"deficits-and-expenses-threaten-the-survival-of-san-diegos-cultural-scene-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440459\/","title":{"rendered":"Deficits and expenses threaten the survival of San Diego\u2019s cultural scene \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cSan Diego Museum of Art lays off nearly a dozen staff\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/08\/07\/san-diego-museum-of-art-lays-offs-nearly-a-dozen-amid-funding-crunch-rising-costs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 9<\/a>): It is unfortunate to read about the San Diego Museum of Art\u2019s decision to lay off staff. <\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t speak to any individual organization\u2019s finances or managerial decisions, but what I can say from my own research on our local arts and culture sector is that whenever arts organizations cut staff, everyone loses: community programs shrink, institutional knowledge is lost, and San Diegans are out of work. <\/p>\n<p>When this happens in organizations of every size across the sector, it is no longer a story about any one museum\u2019s decisions and becomes a story about how we fund arts and culture in the San Diego region. And when nearly 4 in 10 of our arts organizations run deficits year after year, what the sector needs isn\u2019t better coping. It needs a stable, dependable funding foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Victoria Plettner-Saunders, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cSan Diego Museum of Art lays off nearly a dozen staff\u201d (Aug. 9): It is unfortunate to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-440459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}