I remember my first encounter with beggars. It was, oddly enough, while I was accompanying my parents on a trip to England when I was ten years old. We passed a few on the stairs into the Tube, brown women sitting on blankets with cups out, obviously miserable. I remember expecting my parents to throw [...]
This video has been making the rounds for the past week or so. Eric Whitacre, for those of you who don’t know, is a rockstar choral composer who has made a killing for himself by focusing not on professional or established community choirs, but rather the high school and college circuit. His works are accessible [...]
The carnage continues for state arts agencies: now Arizona is on the chopping block, as the Arizona Commission on the Arts faces another 25% loss from a state appropriation that already declined by more than half last year. Worse, the state has enacted a “sweep” of a $10 million endowment fund that was supposed to [...]
Tomorrow, the National Council on the Arts will meet in DC. For those who don’t know, the National Council on the Arts is the official advisory body for the NEA – a little bit like the equivalent of the NEA’s Board, if it were a nonprofit. According to the NEA website, the Council advises on [...]
For those of you who have been waiting patiently for Createquity to get off the economics kick it’s been indulging in for the past couple of weeks…well, all I can tell you is sit tight, we’re just getting started! While the main show thus far has been my debates with Michael Rushton, Adam Huttler, Tony [...]
As a reminder, feel free to submit tips for “Around the horn” via the Createquity Tipster, now in convenient spreadsheet format! For the next three weeks, UNESCO is holding an international email discussion on “Funding Culture, Managing the Risk,” leading up to an in-person symposium on April 16-17 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The discussion [...]
In 2005, a violinist friend of mine approached me and asked if I would write a piece for her duo with percussionist Svet Stoyanov. Of course I said yes, and the result was a set of three little pieces for two instruments of very different sizes. Here’s the third movement, as performed at its premiere [...]
See here for the original. Hi Erinn, Thanks for the interesting discussion. I’m especially pleased that you picked up on the tension between the way that philanthropists generally talk about other causes and the way that art and culture demands to be talked about. I’m a believer that the arts are not (primarily) out to [...]
You’ll notice this week that a few of the items below have credits attached to them in the form of “(h/t so-and so).” “H/t” is internet-speak for “hat tip” – an acknowledgment of a tip that somebody sent you. Ever since Around the Horn has been, well, around for a while, people have been taking [...]
Crossposted at the Fractured Atlas blog As a Watertown, MA native, I know how proud New England is of its firsts. So it doesn’t surprise me that New England has for a long time been on the forefront of the national conversation about the creative economy, thanks in no small part to the longtime leadership [...]
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...