On September 30, the New York City Mayor’s Office announced a set of five new initiatives involving a collaboration between the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and its Economic Development Corporation. Ever since I started following trends in creative economy policy and research a couple of years ago, it has seemed to me that despiteRead More
Archives for October 2009
Ben Davis takes up the banner
Props go to artnet Magazine’s Ben Davis for being the second member of the professional media to actually do his homework on the NEA conference call controversy, joining the Los Angeles Times‘s Mike Boehm. (Hat tip to Anonymous Commenter.) And what marvelous things he uncovers! You should really read the whole thing, but here areRead More
Is it time for the arts to become a partisan issue?
(photo courtesy Flickr user victoriabernal, Creative Commons license) So, in case you haven’t noticed, the arts have become a bit of a hot topic in the political arena lately. Though the brouhaha regarding the NEA’s involvement in the United We Serve conference calls seems to have died down a bit since Yosi Sergant fell onRead More
Around the horn: Brooklyn dreamin’ edition
This is apparently the month for Createquity guest-blogging. In addition to my contributions to Barry Hessenius’s NEA group blog, which continues this week with several panelists from the commercial music and television industries, I will be doing double-duty next week: running the official blog of the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference in Brooklyn, NY startingRead More
Meet Me at Barry’s IV: Wrap and Reactions
The last of the panel questions for Week 4 of the Barry’s Blog discussion of the future of the NEA are up, and Barry himself has added some final thoughts to wrap up the week. Check it all out here. To give you a taste and encourage you to visit, once again I’ve cross-posted myRead More
Meet Me at Barry’s III
Barry’s Blog has added two more questions to this week’s group panel on the future of the NEA. My answers are below; or you can check out the entire thing here (scroll down). If you do the latter, keep an eye out for Shannon Daut’s excellent comments on public arts agency leadership. Q: We talkRead More
Arts Policy Library: Breakthroughs In Shared Measurement
[Note to readers: I’m very pleased to introduce to you the first Arts Policy Library entry (not to mention first Createquity post of any kind) not written by me. Guy Yedwab is a budding theater professional who first became known to me through the magic of Twitter and later through his blog, CultureFuture. Currently aRead More
Meet Me at Barry’s II
I’m participating in this week’s portion of Barry Hessenius’s and Anthony Radich’s six-week online discussion about the future of the NEA, hosted at the Western States Arts Federation website. Barry has the panel’s answers to the first two questions already up. You can check them out here, or if you’re pressed for time, I’ve repostedRead More
Around the horn: California dreamin’ edition
Rocco Landesman responded slowly and clearly last week to the inquiry into the infamous NEA conference call on the part of GOP Senators, saying “I am unaware of the use of any taxpayer dollars for the…conference call or related activity,” and debunking a number of other myths while striking a conciliatory tone. The Senators’ response?Read More
Watch the National Arts Journalism Summit here @ 12pm ET
Doug McLennan, the founder of the incomparable ArtsJournal.com, has asked bloggers around the web to co-host the live stream of today’s National Arts Journalism Summit in Los Angeles, at which ten new models for arts journalism will be presented. Naturally, I thought this was a cool idea and volunteered to sign up. The action takesRead More