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
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
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
Outrageous Fortune: The Life And Times Of The New American Play by Todd London, with Ben Pesner, and Zannie Giraud Voss, examines the “collaboration in crisis” between the contemporary American playwright and the varied people who fund and produce new work. Published this month by
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
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
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.
I keep trying to write this story and I don’t know where to begin or how to proceed. Maybe, certainly, I should have taken better notes. But all the notes in the world would still have left me struggling for words to describe the past
Diane Ragsdale has a great article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on “Recreating Fine Arts Institutions“. It is a paid site so I’m not sure what the protocol is. Maybe they will make the article free eventually…but if you can pick up a copy
Just got an email that the Women’s Project lost its NEA funding. From Susan Jonas’ email: No theatre is more significant in terms of its historic commitment to this mission. The theatre has survived some rough times and has come through administratively and artistically, especially
Here’s the thing I keep struggling with – this disconnect between the technological and the sociological. It seems like kind of chicken/egg thing. We know that technology can change the way we behave and frequently we try to invent technology to do just that. BUT