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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 [...]
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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.” [...]
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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 [...]
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Around the horn: Vancouver edition

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

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

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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Around the horn: iPad edition

Itching to design the next NEA logo? Rocco would like to have a talk with you. Arts peeps who run organizations (especially ones you founded): you need to know about the Pepsi Refresh Contest. They’re giving out $1.3 million every month ($20 million total) to “innovative ideas that move communities forward” this year in six categories, [...]
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Outrageous Takeaways

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

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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Around the horn: Scott Brown edition

I really, really want to write about the new National Arts Index from Americans for the Arts, but I just have too much else on my plate right now to do it justice. Luckily, I am not the only arts policy blogger on the web: you can read Randy Cohen’s explanation at ARTSblog here, along [...]
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