On value, utility, and morals

As mentioned here recently, I’m engaging in a slow-motion blog-off of sorts with Tony Wang of Philosopher 2.0 about the nature of value and how it relates to different sectors. In my posts leading up to this discussion earlier this summer, available here, here, here, and here, I started off by showing that value andRead More

Flashback: Reinventing the Wheel

This blog has a lot of new subscribers who have joined us in the past few months (actually, since February the readership has grown by a factor of 12), and it occurred to me that many folks may not realize that my interest in arts policy and arts management stems, more than anything else, fromRead More

20UNDER40 receives 304 chapter proposals

Edward Clapp’s 20UNDER40 anthology, a publication that will feature twenty chapters from emerging leaders in the arts under 40 years of age, has received an eye-opening 304 responses to its recent call for proposals from 343 authors on five continents. This is, frankly, a pretty astounding yield for a project with no history, financial reward,Read More

Around the horn: WordPress edition

The arts blogosphere (artosphere?) has been buzzing lately with the news of the demotion of the NEA’s erstwhile Director of Communications, Yosi Sergant, in response to Glenn Beck’s paranoid delusions about two conference calls that Yosi helped to organize to get artists involved in community service. Jeff Chang says this is the new shape ofRead More

It’s a Brand New Blog

Today is a special day. If you’re reading this in your email or an application like Google Reader, consider this an invitation to escape, right now, the drab tyranny of the preview pane and visit Createquity in its glorious new incarnation at createquity.com. That’s right, I am now master of my own domain and haveRead More

Fox at it again

I get letters: From: Miller, JoshSent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:38 PMTo: Moss, IanSubject: RE: Media InquiryImportance: High Mr. Moss, Greetings – I hope this message finds you well. I’m a reporter who is working on a story about two NEA-supported conference calls that purportedly asked artists to create art within major areas of PresidentRead More

Around the horn: Laboring on Labor Day edition

WOW, that was fast. Mere days after announcing a $20 million cut in funding that impinged on previously made commitments and, in some cases, money that had already been spent, the government of British Columbia, Canada not only restored the funding that had been cut but threw another $12 million on top for good measure.Read More

New Blogs!

I needn’t have cut the list short to three last time – there’s a lot of great new (or new to me) stuff out there. Here’s a sampling for you: blog by arwenArwen Lowbridge used to be the Managing Director at Fractured Atlas and now is an independent consultant and performing artist. In addition toRead More

Meet me at Barry’s

I’m honored and delighted to be participating this month and next in Barry Hessenius’s six-week group blogging exercise on the future of the National Endowment for the Arts and federal cultural policy, billed as “likely the longest scheduled blog discussion ever attempted in our field.” This truly gargantuan enterprise, which officially launches on September 15,Read More

Around the horn: Lion of the Senate edition

Well, as we learned over the weekend, a lot of state arts councils are in bad shape. Now we learn via the Clyde Fitch Report that NYS Arts is organizing pre-emptive lobbying for the New York State Council on the Arts (currently the best-funded state arts agency in the country) in anticipation of further cutsRead More