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The public ArtPrize 10 cast fewer votes for than There were ever before. 253,161 in ArtPrize 10, which votes cast 75,000 fewer was almos last year. Therevotes compared t to lic votes cast were 327,814 pubin last year’s art competition 19-day .
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“Voting is an engagement important but it’s not tactic, tactic. Wha the only this year is t happened a broader storypart of a voter num , and bers always fluctuate.”
WHILE VISIT OR ATTE significantl y. Photo by NDANCE remained Johnny Quirin strong at some venues, public voting for In 2009, ArtPrize 10 Jori Benn slipped Prize, there the first year of Artett space was cast and 1,262were 334,219 votes Less entrie given to fewer artists “The numb entries. Fewer entrie er Donald tributed to s in these venues con-. of entrie which s may have tributed to fewer votes the Gerald Holloway, curator con- voting serves as a multips overall, overa Elizabeth at votes cast, the low number lier for , fluctuates Payne, Grand ll.” Museum, R. Ford Presidential said Art of year Benne Jori Muse said there Rapid over Bennett, ArtPrize execu tt said. “With um’s year,” mana s pieces were 24 art showc fewer entrie this year ger, said communications were appro tive director. There than last, the museu s played which was ased at the museu pated a shift m we antici nine lower disthis year ximately 1,260 entrie entrie than last m, - tained when in vote totals comp year more than s (some con- tries. the museum hosted tries for ArtPr ared to 1,346 en-s of the most highly . Many one artwo compared attended Artize Nine, Prize venue cent declin rk), visito He said there were 32 ena 6 perOver the to 16 entries last year. rs, which 140,021 Place, the s — including DeVo ues — 168 e. The number of ven19-day also repres a decline in — remained ented Amway — Ford Museum, GRAMs welcomed 109,13 event, GRAM attend the same. ance had year. , which 5 total visito year over more tightly rated shows this year where cu- than in was roughly 13,000 rs, “Over the years, less ask more count 2017, when the visitors questions museum ed 122,269 about the always visitors. voting
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As Italy hover nancial crisis, s on the edge of a fiits potential local observers say could spill impacts on Europ West Mic over into the U.S. a e
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uted to Italy’s troubled econo Earlier my. elections and list coalit this year, a new popuencroachin ion gover European power that nmen Commission g on the pledged tax t took deficits ’s limit for creased pensio of no cuts, inof a country’s more than 3 perce a “universal ns and welfare, and CNBC article GDP, according tont which wouldbasic income” — all a . of Italy’s curren lion and 125 cost between 65 biltio is 12.7 perce t debt-to-GDP ed in the billion euros if enactracountry’s nt, CNBC with according 2019 reports, to Italian newspbudget, trillio a deficit of more than Post. $2.4 aper Il gover n, according to the Italian BLM quar nmen “They ’re ond only t. The country with politic trying to come shows morterly survey up to publicto Greece when is secal solutions nomic proble it comes to ecocountries, debt among eurozone and presidee CEOs “They promi ms,” Long said. accord
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