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Perhaps we really are talking about two different things… This goes back to my initial comment on the first...
—Adam Huttler on March 13th, 2010It sounds to me like you’re saying economists would claim that the fact that poor folks don’t buy tickets to hot...
—Ian David Moss on March 13th, 2010
—Adam Huttler on March 13th, 2010
—Ian David Moss on March 13th, 2010There are lots of thoughtful economists, so maybe the problem is more with the dysfunctional aspects of the...
—Richard Reiss on March 11th, 2010
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Around the horn: it’s an honor just to be nominated edition
Americans for the Arts has another blogfest going, this time about private sector arts advocacy. Some big names participating in this one.
The National Endowment for the Arts’s latest program has sort of flown under the radar, but Our Town (which is currently in the President’s budget request waiting to be approved by Congress) would marshal [...]
Economists Don’t Care About Poor People
(Cf. for the title.)
My around the horn post from this week included an item on the ethics of offering unpaid internships and a proposal under consideration across the pond to force arts organizations (and other employers, presumably) to pay interns the minimum wage if the engagement is longer than a month. This sparked a lively [...]
About the name
Since you asked, Michael,
I still can’t figure out if Createquity has four syllables or five.
Indeed it has five syllables: cree-ay-TEH-qui-tee. And in case anyone’s wondering, there’s no glottal before “equity,” I just lean right into the “t” before it.
Also, not that I really need to remind you if you’re reading this, but the blog is [...]
Around the horn: earthquake edition
David Byrne has a new journal entry talking about his experience speaking at the TED Conference last month. If you’d like to hear Byrne speak, he will be kicking off the Connecting New England’s Creative Communities Summit in Providence next week as part of a panel on “Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around.” [...]
eighth blackbird and the Ethics of Pay-to-Play
Chicago-based chamber music ensemble eighth blackbird has earned the admiration of many a composer over the past 14 years for their electrifying performances, outreach to new audiences, and tireless championship of contemporary programming. That is, until the announcement of their new composition competition earlier this month.
It seems that in order to enter the competition, composers [...]
Around the horn: Johnny Weir edition
It is indeed state budget time, and AFTA’s Tim Mikulski has a helpful round-up of some of the early arts advocacy fights on the horizon for this year. So far, Rhode Island’s 58% cut is looming largest, but Louisiana is close behind as Gov. Jindal wants to halve the state’s Department of Culture, Recreation, and [...]
Flashback: Press Play!
In April 2007, my experimental rock band/electric chamber ensemble Capital M had its second (and last) annual World Premieres Extravaganza at the now-defunct Tonic on New York’s Lower East Side. We opened with a performance of composer Ian Dicke’s Press Play!, a really cool composition fusing rock, jazz, and classical idioms just about as authentically [...]
They like me, they really like me!
The good folks at the Technology in the Arts blog, a program of the Center for Arts Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, run a podcast that includes a feature called “Cool Sites of the Episode.” Here they are talking about Createquity and giving a shout-out to Around the Horn (hope it’s cool of [...]
Yosi speaks
Yosi Sergant, former NEA Communications Director, has finally broken his silence with respect to the events that led to his resignation last fall. For those of you who haven’t been following this story, the article linked above provides a good overview.
Sergant was interviewed by Hillel Aron, a grad student at USC who is (self-admittedly) a [...]
Economicsitis: A Response
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