Around the horn: Vancouver edition

Stephen Colbert is ready for the Olympics…are YOU? Did you know the Olympics used to award medals to artists between 1912 and 1948? Germany led with 24 in all. Holy moly data gold mine ahead: PeteSearch has been writing a program to scrape the public Facebook profiles off the web and analyze their connections andRead More

New Blogs!

Another new crop for you all this weekend. 24 Usable Hours I’m so proud of my former Yale School of Management classmate Devon Smith for putting together this completely kickass arts & social media blog that you should all be reading. (Even the title is amazing!) I sometimes suspect Devon is simply adapting material she’sRead More

Around the horn: Snowpocalypse edition

Thanks to all for the gratfiying response to my news from last week. I’m looking forward to new frontiers and really proud of the community that’s started to build up around Createquity. I hope to ensure that the site remains worthy of your time and attention. ‘Tis the time of the season when states startRead More

Some food for thought

Presented without comment: Outrageous Fortune paints a none-too-bright picture of the environment for new restaurants in America. Of principal concern are the economic challenges faced by restauranteurs and the lack of opportunity for making one’s living through cooking; the gap in support for mid-career chefs; the inauthentic professional relationship between restaurant owners and their landlords;Read More

Changes

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