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
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
Wanna have a phone chat with Kal Penn?
Well, you can, if you sign up to participate in Americans for the Arts’s conference call with Penn (who now goes by his birth name, Kalpen Modi) on the subject of President Obama’s United We Serve initiative. The call is tomorrow, Thursday, August 27 at 3pm Eastern time. Americans for the Arts has partnered withRead More
New Blogs!
Only three this time, but I didn’t want to hold them up until I found another. If you know of a great arts policy, philanthropy, or other blog that isn’t already in my blogroll, do tell me about it! Beth’s BlogOne of philanthropy’s most oft-cited bloggers, consultant Beth Kanter writes about the intersection between theRead More
Value generators II
For those of you just joining this discussion, I’ve been ruminating for the past couple of months on the nature of economic growth and its relationship to the (as it turns out, quite vague) concept we call “value.” You can read the first two essays on this topic here and here. In the first, IRead More
New Blogs!
Enjoy! Flux Theatre EnsembleAugust (Gus) Schulenberg is the main writer for this blog on behalf of Flux Theatre Ensemble, a small company based in New York. Gus writes thoughtfully about a number of theater-related issues including some good arts policy stuff here and there. You can read his recent post about Arlene Goldbard’s talk atRead More
Fox News gets facts, math wrong in report about NEA grants
Over the past week, Fox News has pushed a storyline on the recent National Endowment for the Arts “stimulus” grants that has an eerily familiar tone: The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night “pervert”Read More
Value generators
Following up on my economics and value posts from last month (here and here), I’ve been trying to do a little research on how economists presently think about the relationship between value and economic growth. It’s a difficult proposition, frankly, because the concepts involved are so slippery. Most of the normal measures of value generationRead More