(photo credit: henrybloomfield, flickr Creative Commons license) You know, for a long time I resisted incorporating the current economic environment into my writing here, other than brief references to it in the around the horn posts, mostly because I didn’t feel like I had any brilliant answers. Yeah, it sucks that no one has any [...]
Wow, “sustainability” is definitely the word of the month. It was plastered all over the recent Americans for the Arts Convention, my own treatment of the subject was linked by jazz blogs everywhere (thanks, Darcy) and is now the top-read Createquity post of all-time, and now this week two bloggers have given it their own [...]
Thanks to Blogger and the Twitterverse, I’ve been talking recently with Tony Wang of Philosopher 2.0 about the nature of value creation in society. In addition to trading some emails and other online communication, we had in the past couple of weeks what I told him were the two most intellectually challenging conversations I’ve had [...]
I briefly caught a performance of Henry Brant’s Orbits for organ, soprano, and 80 trombones at the Guggenheim on the way back from Seattle yesterday. Totally wild stuff. I only really dug isolated moments of it, but those moments were killer. Saw blogmaster Alex Ross in the audience as well, scribbling notes as he is [...]
Later today, I’ll be off to Seattle for the Americans for the Arts Convention, and will be live-blogging and -tweeting my experiences there as time and internet access allow. W00t! Recession blues roundup: JazzTimes is no more (at least for now); The Ford and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations are offering buyouts to 33% and 40% [...]
As I get ready for the 2009 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention, Renewable Resources: Arts in Sustainable Communities, and prepare a panel session on the creative economy for the 2009 Net Impact North America Conference, Advancing Sustainable Global Enterprise: Changemakers, Innovators, and Problem Solvers, I’ve been doing some thinking on what “sustainability” means for [...]
As a follow-up to last week’s rant, when I was in Israel we met with a company that produces healthcare IT solutions with the goal of making it easier for doctors and hospitals to transfer patient information quickly and accurately. A venture capital partner whose company provided much of the funding for the startup also [...]
On Monday, November 5 (yeah, I know, I’m way behind), I attended a lecture on social impact investing with Sharon Oster, one of my econ teachers from last quarter and something of a celebrity on campus. Unfortunately, I had to miss the beginning for an Internship Fund meeting, but here’s what I learned from the [...]
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...