Createquity satisfaction survey

So, in case you missed it because you’re a skimmer (I know your type!), buried in the last post I announced a survey of Createquity readers. Some twenty-five people have filled it out already, and I am immensely grateful for their feedback. Would you do me a favor and join them? Feedburner tells me IRead More

New Blogs!

The new arts policy or arts-policy-relevant blogs keep coming at a brisk clip. Meanwhile, in recent months, some of the sites I’ve previously highlighted have subsequently either moved or ceased to be: Barry’s Arts Blog and Update, the home of Barry Hessenius’s invaluable weekly rants, is now known simply as Barry’s Blog and has aRead More

National Council on the Arts live webcast tomorrow

Tomorrow, the National Council on the Arts will meet in DC. For those who don’t know, the National Council on the Arts is the official advisory body for the NEA – a little bit like the equivalent of the NEA’s Board, if it were a nonprofit. According to the NEA website, the Council advises onRead More

Some further resources on the economics debate

For those of you who have been waiting patiently for Createquity to get off the economics kick it’s been indulging in for the past couple of weeks…well, all I can tell you is sit tight, we’re just getting started! While the main show thus far has been my debates with Michael Rushton, Adam Huttler, TonyRead 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

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

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

Flashback: Press Play!

In April 2007, my experimental rock band/electric chamber ensemble Capital M had its second (and last) annual World Premieres Extravaganza at the now-defunct Tonic on New York’s Lower East Side. We opened with a performance of composer Ian Dicke’s Press Play!, a really cool composition fusing rock, jazz, and classical idioms just about as authenticallyRead More

They like me, they really like me!

The good folks at the Technology in the Arts blog, a program of the Center for Arts Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, run a podcast that includes a feature called “Cool Sites of the Episode.” Here they are talking about Createquity and giving a shout-out to Around the Horn (hope it’s cool ofRead More

Yosi speaks

Yosi Sergant, former NEA Communications Director, has finally broken his silence with respect to the events that led to his resignation last fall. For those of you who haven’t been following this story, the article linked above provides a good overview. Sergant was interviewed by Hillel Aron, a grad student at USC who is (self-admittedly)Read More