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Around the horn: Bart Stupak edition

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 discussionRead More

Flashback: Miniatures for Violin and Marimba

In 2005, a violinist friend of mine approached me and asked if I would write a piece for her duo with percussionist Svet Stoyanov. Of course I said yes, and the result was a set of three little pieces for two instruments of very different sizes. Here’s the third movement, as performed at its premiereRead More

My comment on Philanthropedia’s post on Bay Area arts organizations

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 toRead More

Around the horn: reconciliation edition

You’ll notice this week that a few of the items below have credits attached to them in the form of “(h/t so-and so).” “H/t” is internet-speak for “hat tip” – an acknowledgment of a tip that somebody sent you. Ever since Around the Horn has been, well, around for a while, people have been takingRead More

Connecting New England’s Creative Communities

Crossposted at the Fractured Atlas blog As a Watertown, MA native, I know how proud New England is of its firsts. So it doesn’t surprise me that New England has for a long time been on the forefront of the national conversation about the creative economy, thanks in no small part to the longtime leadershipRead More

Economicsitis: A Response

Last week’s post, provocatively titled Economists Don’t Care About Poor People, attracted two lengthy, substantive critiques. One was from Michael Rushton, with whom I’ve tangled previously on the subject, and the other from Adam Huttler. (Note to self: when your own boss writes an eleventy-thousand-word comment refuting your twelvety-thousand-word blog post, maybe it’s time to,Read More

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) wouldRead More

Economists Don’t Care About Poor People

(Cf. for the title.) My around the horn post from this week included an item on the ethics of offering unpaid internships and a proposal under consideration across the pond to force arts organizations (and other employers, presumably) to pay interns the minimum wage if the engagement is longer than a month. This sparked aRead More

About the name

Since you asked, Michael, I still can’t figure out if Createquity has four syllables or five. Indeed it has five syllables: cree-ay-TEH-qui-tee. And in case anyone’s wondering, there’s no glottal before “equity,” I just lean right into the “t” before it. Also, not that I really need to remind you if you’re reading this, butRead More

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.”Read More

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