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I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been hired as the next Research Director for Fractured Atlas, a national arts service organization based in New York. It’s a full-time job, and my primary responsibility for 2010 will be implementing a prototype version of the Bay Area Cultural Asset Map (BACAM). (Longtime readers may remember BACAM fromRead More

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 sixRead More

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” (readRead More

New Blogs!

My, oh my, has it really been two and a half months since the last New Blogs roundup? That’s not good, especially since the onslaught of interesting new content has not let up one bit. With apologies to those who got left out this time, here are some of my newest reads: Art & SeekRead More

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 ourRead More

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, alongRead More

The NEA gets into urban revitalization

Well, it turns out that Rocco did have a doozy of an announcement this morning: a new funding program called the NEA Mayors’ Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative. (The name is a doozy too, and makes me wonder whether there’s some kind of joint funding relationship going on – the 25th anniversary isRead More

I get letters

I guess one of the privileges that comes along with the subscriber count passing 500 is that people send me press releases now. I’ve gotten a whole bunch of them in the past couple of weeks, and they all seem pretty relevant, so I’ll do my journalistic duty and pass them along. (Note: some ofRead More

Around the horn: MLK edition

The excellent commentary on Outrageous Fortune is so plentiful that I won’t pretend to try to link to all of it. Two bloggers not part of Isaac’s group caught my eye with their posts, however. First, Guy Yedwab makes an important point about individual incentives (and inertia) getting in the way of systematic change. Second,Read More

Playwrights’ Outrageous (Mis)Fortune

As mentioned yesterday, a group of blogfolk are making their way through the new book/study Outrageous Fortune that looks at the state of the new American play in the early 21st century. My first post on the subject was here; today, I’ll be discussing chapter two along with playwright Matt Freeman. Other writers will (thankfully)Read More

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