- Long overdue, but Atul Gawande’s incredible article on the economics of health-care costs and the dark side of competition offers many lessons for the current debate in Congress and, indeed, for policy in general.
- The artists = crazy people thing just won’t go away. (Though, as Holden Caulfield might say, maybe it’s everyone else that’s crazy?)
- Could more newspapers soon be moving to a nonprofit model? The Nonprofit Law Prof Blog is all over the story. Apparently the New York Times is giving it serious thought, and Senator Ben Cardin has introduced a bill that would make it easier for print publications to convert to nonprofit entities.
- Could senior discounts be on the way out? Daniel Hamermesh (a senior himself) suggests the justifications for such discounts are largely spurious and predicts they’ll start disappearing once the recession’s over.
- Venture capital for musicians? It’s here.
- In case you’re wondering how the NEA got to be where it is, this Times article should get you up to speed.
- Thinking about saving some cash by laying off staff and replacing them with unpaid interns? It might just get you into a bit of trouble with the law. In fact, according to wetfeet.com, most unpaid internships “are probably not legal.”
- Jim Undercofler, former chief of the Philadelphia Orchestra and board President of the American Music Center (where I used to work) has taken a professorship in Drexel University’s arts administration program.
- The Cultural Data Project is one of the case studies included in this new Hewlett report on breakthroughs in shared measurement. (pdf)
- Sean Stannard-Stockton vividly describes the growing potential of social media in Knowledge Sharing and Ambient Intimacy.
- So umm, this seems kind of significant: Hamas Shifts from Rockets to Culture War (h/t Culturebot)
- RIP Merce Cunningham.
- Want your community to be included in the next Americans for the Arts economic impact study? Here’s the info you need.
