Missed over the weekend while I was freaking out over some class assignments: Sunday marked one full year of Createquity. For those who have joined along the way, welcome and I hope to prove worthy of your continued attention. As I mentioned in the inaugural entry, I welcome feedback of all kinds on what I [...]
This past Friday, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show broadcast a 32-minute segment on arts and culture policy and funding. As I mentioned last week, this was part of the “30 Issues in 30 Days” series for which several topics have been opened up for public discussion via wiki. I’m proud to say that two of my [...]
Back at the beginning of the semester, I promised that by mid-October I would have “cracked this nut” with regard to economics, with the help of a course called Behavioral Economics and Strategy that I finished up this past week. Well, I’m not sure I can quite make that claim after all. But I don’t [...]
Via PhilanTopic, the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC is running a series this month called “30 Issues in 30 Days,” looking at how Obama and McCain stack up on various questions of the day. Every Friday, one of the issues is given its own Wiki page so that show listeners (or, really, anyone) can collaborate [...]
After a hiatus of more than a year and a half, Capital M returns to the Knitting Factory Tap Bar for an all-improv show on Thursday, October 30 at 8pm. The site of Capital M’s CD release party in September 2005 as well as our second show ever, the Tap Bar is soon to be [...]
Two of the coolest arts organizations I know of are about to become a single entity. Fractured Atlas, a 10-year-old national service organization providing healthcare, fiscal sponsorship, and other goodies to its members, is merging with NYC Performing Arts Spaces, a collection of online, searchable databases for rehearsal and performance venues in music, dance, and [...]
It’s great to see your friends doing well. This week, the New York Times came out with a lengthy profile of Caleb Burhans, who I know from my time in New York pre-business school. Caleb’s a fantastic musician who’s pretty much at the epicenter of a vast movement of young conservatory graduates who have been [...]
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has come under some criticism recently for its decision to give the first $200,000 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award–aka the “Mimi”–to “Angels in America” creator Tony Kushner, already the recipient of a Pulitzer, an Emmy, and two Tonys. The Times story indicates that publicity is an explicit goal behind [...]
Hello Scott, thank you for the question! These issues are addressed several times in the report, mainly in the section...
Hi, Ian! Just curious: did this study address anything regarding geography or age issues?
Thanks for putting this up on the web. I’d like to get the thesis if you don’t mind sending it. I want to...
I am pursuing music full time. all or nothing i guess.
Katherine what an in depth article. Thank you so much for writing this. The arts community needs something like this!