Free tickets? How about income-sensitive tickets?

On Monday, I posted a note about a new program from the Highland Street Foundation to pay for free museum admission on Fridays at various Massachusetts cultural institutions during the summer. There are similar programs in other cities, such as Target Free Fridays, not to mention more traditional access programs like student discounts or rushRead More

Around the horn: MBA edition

Createquity began in October 2007 in large part as a vehicle for me to share the novel experience of business school from an artist’s and nontraditional student’s perspective. That experience ended today, as I officially received my Master of Business Administration degree from the Yale School of Management, but Createquity will live on. Though theRead More

Around the horn: end of the road edition

It’s a race to the finish here, as grades for my classes are due in just a few short days. In less than a week, I will be officially done with business school! As for the Around the Horn feature, the response to my query last week was limited but uniformly in favor of keepingRead More

New Blogs!

With this post, I have now published more entries in half a year of 2009 than I did in the entirety of 2008. Woohoo! Here are this week’s newly added blogs. diacriticalI didn’t realize until recently that Doug McLennan, the brains behind the ArtsJournal empire, also had a blog of his own. Doug’s continual monitoringRead More

Reconstructing Florida

I’ve had a chance to look at the two papers that Richard Florida and his colleagues sent to me in response to my essay from last month criticizing the quantitative methodology used in his best-selling book, The Rise of the Creative Class. The short version is that (a) a lot of work has been doneRead More

On the Arts and Developing Communities

(photo by murcurialn, Flickr) As part of my independent study on public policy and the arts, I’ve been reviewing a significant amount of literature on the potential of artists and arts organizations to serve a revitalization role in so-called “transitional” neighborhoods and communities. While many studies show a clear relationship between the presence and densityRead More

New Blogs!

Here are this week’s newly added blogs….enjoy! ARTSBLOGWho knew? It seems I’m a little late to the party, but apparently DC-based advocacy organization Americans for the Arts has been running this quite lively group blog with a dizzying array of volunteer contributors since 2007. With so many authors, you’d expect the quality to be aRead More

On Twitter and the Coming Information Invasion

So as I mentioned a while back, I’m on Twitter as @createquity (what else?). I joined earlier this year and just lurked for a little bit, using the web interface and gathering a few followers. No big deal, right? Then I downloaded my first Twitter desktop application, Twhirl, and let the tweets roll in. That’sRead More

Around the horn: Pig virus edition

I am done with one of my five classes as of this past Friday, a sign that things are finally winding down here in New Haven. With final projects and/or major hours quotas for all of my other commitments, however, I’m guaranteed to be up against it for at least a couple more weeks. InRead More

Richard Florida responds

Earlier this week, I posted a very long essay on Richard Florida’s wildly popular book The Rise of The Creative Class. I knew that in this age of the Google Alert it was possible that Florida might come across it in his internet travels, but even so I was still a bit shocked on TuesdayRead More