Category: Arts Advocacy

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, New York City’s richest man and biggest philanthropist, is quietly pulling the plug on an unusual program that has poured nearly $200 million of his fortune into nonprofit groups across the five boroughs, in a sign of major change under way in his charitable giving plans. Yikes! Bad news for lots and…

“The whole idea of the professional artist belongs to the 20th century,” says Shan Maclennan, Southbank’s creative director of learning and participation. “Before that, amateurs were everywhere.” This quote is from a Newsweek article on amateurs making art. [link via artsjournal] We’ve written before about the “rise of the amateur” and how that’s affecting the…

Over at HuffPo Michael Kaiser opines on how we have to lower ticket prices for the arts.  He says: …the favored technique used to fill budget gaps has been increasing ticket prices. When we increase prices, typically at budget time, we hope that a small increase will not be noticeable and we need the added…

Color me impressed. Createquity pulled together his best quotes from the past year and put them all in one big end-of-year post. Very cool and lots of good ideas. Check it out here.

What do our CO2 emissions look like in tangible, spatial form? Leading up to the Copenhagen Climate Change talks, San Francisco based Millennium Art had an answer. They teamed up with the United Nations Department of Public Information to create a global installation–a collection of three-story-high digital multimedia cubes, each representing the one metric ton of carbon…

I’m still digging around  but with Pepsi Refresh and Coke’s Live Positively campaigns we’re seeing a distinctly different tone and approach towards giving. On the heels of the Chase Community giving campaign (which has taken some heat recently) I think we’re definitely seeing a trend. I’m still trying to figure out exactly how each of these…

So I took some of my snow-y downtime to catch up on reading The New Yorker. There was a fantastic article last week on China’s  “crash program for clean energy“.  Far too much information to encapsulate here, but I love how this paragraph hits on the correlation between innovation,  tolerance of failure and free expression:…

I was recently having a conversation with a few of my arts administrator friends reflecting on some of the more recent funding initiatives we’ve seen of late and wondering – who sets the priorities?? if anyone were to ask me – and all due respect to createquity but those of us who didn’t go to…

A new report released by the National Endowment for the Arts said that the number of American adults attending arts and cultural events has sunk to its lowest level since 1982, which was when the NEA began conducting the poll. read the rest at CultureMonster.