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Around the horn: it’s an honor just to be nominated edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: March 8th, 2010
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 [...]
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Around the horn: earthquake edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: March 1st, 2010
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.” [...]
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Around the horn: Johnny Weir edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: February 22nd, 2010
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 [...]
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Yosi speaks

By Ian David Moss | Published: February 16th, 2010
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 [...]
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Around the horn: Vancouver edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: February 15th, 2010
Stephen Colbert is ready for the Olympics…are YOU? Did you know the Olympics used to award medals to artists between 1912 and 1948? Germany led with 24 in all. Holy moly data gold mine ahead: PeteSearch has been writing a program to scrape the public Facebook profiles off the web and analyze their connections and fan pages. [...]
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Arts Policy Library: The Search for Shining Eyes

By Guy Yedwab | Published: February 10th, 2010
In the wake of the 1990 recession, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation embarked on a historic program in an attempt to revolutionize classical music in the United States. The Magic of Music Symphony Orchestra Initiative lasted from 1994 to 2004 and aimed to transform the audience’s experience of music in the concert [...]
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Around the horn: Snowpocalypse edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: February 8th, 2010
Thanks to all for the gratfiying response to my news from last week. I’m looking forward to new frontiers and really proud of the community that’s started to build up around Createquity. I hope to ensure that the site remains worthy of your time and attention. ‘Tis the time of the season when states start figuring [...]
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Some food for thought

By Ian David Moss | Published: February 7th, 2010
Presented without comment: Outrageous Fortune paints a none-too-bright picture of the environment for new restaurants in America. Of principal concern are the economic challenges faced by restauranteurs and the lack of opportunity for making one’s living through cooking; the gap in support for mid-career chefs; the inauthentic professional relationship between restaurant owners and their landlords; and [...]
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Outrageous Takeaways

By Ian David Moss | Published: January 31st, 2010
Hello, there. You might recall that I’ve been participating in a group blogging effort organized by Isaac Butler around Theatre Development Fund’s recent publication, Outrageous Fortune. I’m rather late in my final dispatch – you see, in the middle of all this a meme started going around the theatrosphere that it’s important to “RTWT” (read [...]
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On Vision, Ripples, Expression, and the Mysterious Other

By Ian David Moss | Published: January 26th, 2010
Alarm bells are nothing new in arts circles. For as long as anyone can remember, arts practitioners have been fretting about the future. It’s understandable; after all, the arts have never been an especially profitable enterprise on the whole, and ever since the concept of the nonprofit arts institution resulted in the separation of our [...]
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