In 2002, just after graduating from college, I moved to Philadelphia to pursue a dual career in arts administration and composing. While holding down a couple of part-time jobs involving many file folders and mailing labels, I quickly set to work on a new choral piece, a setting of Federico García Lorca’s poem “Narciso.” I [...]
(Image by Flickr user hitchica, Creative Commons license) A while back, an intrepid reader of this blog got in touch to inform me of the American Federation of Musicians Local 802’s Justice for Jazz Artists! campaign, which seeks to establish pension payments for jazz musicians who play at venues in New York City. The campaign [...]
So, Lee Rosenbaum (perhaps better known to the world as blogger CultureGrrl) scored an interview with NEA Chair Rocco Landesman and writes about it today in the Wall Street Journal: In a freewheeling conversation we had on the day of his Brooklyn visit, Mr. Landesman was true to form—brashly candid. But his provocative words in [...]
Whose brilliant idea was it to put the end of daylight saving time in the middle of Halloween night? Can we do that every year? NEA Chair Rocco Landesman’s Art Works blog is shaping up to be the must-read of the holiday season. Not just because of what he writes there, but because of the [...]
Great article and more fuel for the fire beneath the long long simmering, never quite finished arts stew: how to align the...
As a former director of museums and board member of several arts groups and now consultant – my perspective is less...
Look, if I was the CFO of a big company, and I had a vendetta against the arts, I would love the emphasis on economic...
Nina, there are potentially lots of ways to do this and I’m not trying to say this is the best. However, the...
Interesting concept, but I don’t think this would necessarily yield useful comparative results. As one of the...