Monday, May 28, 2012
Last Friday, I read a story posted on AJ about Michigan Opera getting a one month reprieve on the $11 million it must pay to Chase Bank if it is going to avoid a possible bankruptcy related …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:37AMMonday, May 21, 2012
In one of the more recent (of many) essays on the controversial move of the Barnes collection from the home of Albert C. Barnes (in Merion, PA) to a new facility in downtown Philadelphia, Pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33AMMonday, May 14, 2012
In a recent thought-provoking Createquity post, Creative Placemaking Has an Outcomes Problem, Ian David Moss examines one of the newer initiatives of the NEA (and its private philanthropy f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:25PMSunday, May 6, 2012
This is a post about my struggles to learn Dutch and assimilate to my new country (which I’ve endeavored to wrap back around to the arts). The past few weeks I’ve been studying rathe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12AMMonday, April 16, 2012
I’ve been on hiatus in order to concentrate my time on the weekends to learning Dutch (state exam coming up). My last post was before Mike Daisey unhinged Ira Glass and Ira Glass exposed …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:37AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
While we may be graduating tens of thousands of students with arts degrees each year, including some percentage billed as ‘professional training’ degrees, as everyone in the arts knows, …
SOURCE: State of the Artist at 07:12AMMonday, March 12, 2012
No Jumper post this week as I have the great honor to be blogging on two other sites. Laura Zimmerman at the Minnesota-based McKnight Foundation invited me to submit a post on the subject �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMMonday, March 5, 2012
Clay Lord and the fine folks at Theatre Bay Area have a new publication out: Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art, which includes interviews with 20 prominent artistic …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:07AMTuesday, February 21, 2012
The Wooster Group Clay Lord has written a provocative and rather erudite post, The Work of Presentational Art in the Age of On-Demand Technological Empowerment, in which he cautions that as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:35AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
About a month ago I read an article in the Atlantic (recommended to me by LINKED IN) on the phenomenal success of Finland’s primary and secondary education public school system—a succes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:34AMSunday, February 5, 2012
The other day I received an email alert from the Philanthropy News Digest, which mentioned that a theater company had announced a $7 million endowment challenge grant. When matched, the 3:1 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:27AMMonday, January 23, 2012
In lieu of a Jumper post this week I have written a post (If this is leading, what is following?) for the Arts Journal Discussion, Lead or Follow. Here’s the question that launched…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:34PMSunday, January 15, 2012
Merce Cunningham In last week’s post on direct subsidies to artists, I expanded upon a premise from artist/economist Hans Abbing–that direct subsidies to artists may provide incenti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:39AMSunday, January 8, 2012
Polly Carl has posted a new piece on HowlRound, A Virtual Theater Movement, in which she remarks on a recent trend in arts philanthropy: increased direct support for artists. This philan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:25AMMonday, January 2, 2012
In his article, Occupy the Arts, a seat at a time, NY Times critic Anthony Tomasini (like others) pounced on recent allegations of ‘elitism’ in the arts (growing out of the Occupy moveme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30PMMonday, December 19, 2011
About a month ago I wrote a post on ‘‘on artists making a living and artistic directors that could make a difference but don’t.’ I had a significant number of comments (relat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:13AMSaturday, November 26, 2011
I finally had found some time this week to read Scott Walter’s excellent second post in his trilogy (all three now published) looking at the 1% vs 99% issues in the US arts and culture sec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMMonday, November 14, 2011
Saturday night I went to Joe’s Pub to see playwright-lounge lizard Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra perform his new work, No Place To Go, about a playwright-lounge lizard that must decid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:13PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Diane Ragsdale asks if arts organisations should be charging patrons for works in progress and what allowances that gives to amateur critics and bloggers
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:09AMSaturday, November 5, 2011
So, I’m attending a meeting at Arena Stage in Washington DC today. The attendees are staff members at Arena Stage, about 18 nonprofit and commercial theater producers, and a handful of art…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:58AM 
