https://createquity.com The most important issues in the arts...and what we can do about them. Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:17:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://createquity.com/2009/06/around-horn-real-world-edition/ https://createquity.com/2009/06/around-horn-real-world-edition/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:39:00 +0000 https://createquity.com/2009/06/around-the-horn-real-world-edition.html Read More]]> My lesson for this week: sometimes, taking four and a half classes off of your schedule doesn’t necessarily make your life any less busy. Not sure if that says more about my classes or about me. Either way, here’s your roundup for the first week of June:

• On the heels of my income-sensitive ticket proposal, I found this interesting: ticket scalping for charity?
• Color me shocked, just shocked: those with the least are the ones who give the most. But it seems some people aren’t getting hit so hard from the recession…or at least are in a better position to absorb the pain. Namely, foundation and orchestra executives, respectively. Increases for both categories in FY2008 outpaced those of the rest of us substantially. Are we surprised?
• What is the more salient fact in this story: the fact that 20% of Harvard Business School students have signed a new ethics pledge, or the fact that 80% of Harvard Business School students declined to sign an ethics pledge?
• Looks like the Massachusetts Cultural Council is going to avoid that 57% cut after all. Thank goodness. In other Massachusetts news, it turns out that MASS MoCA, darling of the creative economy literature though it may be, was hanging onto the edge of the financial abyss until this year.
• Experts to the rescue: Clara Miller from the Nonprofit Finance Fund did a Chronicle of Philanthropy chat last week on recession strategies for the arts. Check it out here. Meanwhile, Doug McLennan from ArtsJournal offers some thoughts on social networking and the arts.
• Craving comparative financial data for your performing arts center, or performing arts centers in general? This resource from AMS Planning & Research may be what you’re looking for.
• Americans for the Arts has released the recommendations from its third annual National Arts Policy Roundtable.
• Building community through the arts: in Russia, in Minnesota, in Seattle.
• Been wondering what the plans are for the new White House Office of Social Innovation? Here’s an interview with two of the people involved.
• Next big thing alert: this week’s version is Google Wave, a new way to integrate email, social networking, blogging, and wiki-style collaboration into one Killer App. Check out the promotional video here.

]]> https://createquity.com/2009/06/around-horn-real-world-edition/feed/ 0 https://createquity.com/2009/05/around-horn-end-of-road-edition/ https://createquity.com/2009/05/around-horn-end-of-road-edition/#respond Tue, 19 May 2009 18:02:00 +0000 https://createquity.com/2009/05/around-the-horn-end-of-the-road-edition.html Read More]]> 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 keeping the horn around, as it were. So here’ s what I’m going to do: Around the Horn will continue, but I will try to be a little more selective about what I include in it, and I will write up mini-articles based on things like the news about Rocco Landesman from last week a little more readily. Let’s see how that goes and things can always be adjusted later if necessary.

• Picking up where last week’s pro-Europe screed left off: Britain now decides it’s not only going to fund rehearsal space for bands, it’s going to create up to 10,000 entry-level jobs in the culture industries. Iceland, on the other hand, is having some problems.
• And over in this hemisphere? The latest out of Massachusetts is that the Mass Cultural Council might be in for a 57% cut. (h/t Parabasis) I haven’t seen this reported on or corroborated anwhere else since then, so maybe it’s just a false alarm, but if it’s not, it would be a gut punch to arts in the Bay State. Yes, in times like these, it’s always nice to read headlines like NEXT YEAR COULD BE A WHOLE LOT WORSE. Thanks, Barry. At least SF Foundation arts program head John Killacky offers these helpful survival strategies for arts organizations at Blue Avocado.
• OK, so it’s not all bad: Creative Capital just got a $15 million challenge grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation in honor of its 10th anniversary, and the White House is keeping the door open for dialogue, meeting with a group of “grass-roots activists” organized by the Nathan Cummings Foundation last week.
• The real reason CEO pay has skyrocketed in recent times? A horribly unscientific conception of “the market” for CEOs, rife with selection bias toward already highly-compensated individuals.
• So apparently, structured search is the Next Big Thing. For a demonstration, check out this nifty video advertising Wolfram Alpha, which is being hyped as a “Google killer” (early returns: not so much). For its part, Google is not about to give up the throne without a fight.
• Here are some more art/community/development nonprofits learned about in the past week (jeez, they’re everywhere): Chattanooga’s CreateHere, DC’s Cultural Development Corporation, and New York’s Municipal Art Society. Plus, there’s this story on a community art center in Detroit (the “Power House”) on NPR from back in March. I’m starting to think this field is ripe for an interest group.

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