I really hope not, because otherwise this site will start to become very boring. But sweet Jesus, there is so much going on this week that if I wait until Sunday to blog it all out for you I fear it will be next Sunday before I’m done. Let’s hope things start to quiet down [...]
(cross-posted from ARTSBlog – my thanks to to Jean Cook of the Future of Music Coalition and Fractured Atlas‘s Adam Huttler for their contributions to this piece, and my apologies if you’re reading this multiple times.) We hear a lot of talk about the coming leadership transition in the arts. Baby Boomers are nearing retirement age, [...]
Everybody’s talking about unpaid internships. Scott led things off railing against the injustice, Isaac follows up with posts here and here basically agreeing, 99 says interns should just suck it up, Adam Thurman warns against the dangers of getting addicted to free labor, Guy offers a perspective from internships in the software industry (where my [...]
(Note: here is my second cross-post from this week’s ARTSBlog Emerging Leader Salon. The last time I guest-blogged for Americans for the Arts, my inaugural foray into the bullet-point manifesto format became the most-viewed post on Createquity ever. Anyway, the salon is now over, but you should still check out all of the great posts!) [...]
(This week I’m guest blogging for an Americans for the Arts blog salon on “New Strategies to Support Emerging Leaders.” The discussion is prompted by the joint effort to support grassroots emerging leader networks by the Hewlett and Irvine Foundations and invites a consideration of what role funders have to play in the coming leadership [...]
So, thanks to Guy Yedwab for pointing out my foolishness around Google Docs: apparently I had made my Createquity Tipster spreadsheet viewable to everyone, but not editable to anyone except me. To edit it, you’ll have to use this form instead, which is probably a better call anyway (otherwise someone in a bad mood could [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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...