Barry’s Blog has added two more questions to this week’s group panel on the future of the NEA. My answers are below; or you can check out the entire thing here (scroll down). If you do the latter, keep an eye out for Shannon Daut’s excellent comments on public arts agency leadership. Q: We talkRead More
Meet Me at Barry’s II
I’m participating in this week’s portion of Barry Hessenius’s and Anthony Radich’s six-week online discussion about the future of the NEA, hosted at the Western States Arts Federation website. Barry has the panel’s answers to the first two questions already up. You can check them out here, or if you’re pressed for time, I’ve repostedRead More
Around the horn: California dreamin’ edition
Rocco Landesman responded slowly and clearly last week to the inquiry into the infamous NEA conference call on the part of GOP Senators, saying “I am unaware of the use of any taxpayer dollars for the…conference call or related activity,” and debunking a number of other myths while striking a conciliatory tone. The Senators’ response?Read More
Jon Stewart on the NEA flap
Not in absolutely tip-top form, but hilarious even so: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c America: Target America www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Ron Paul Interview
Around the horn: f(e)asting edition
Had a quick trip to NYC for a bona-fide Chinese wedding banquet, complete with a 12-course (!) meal and embarrassing games involving the bride and groom. In other news, I’ll be blogging the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference on October 18-21 in Brooklyn, NY. Let me know if there’s anything you want me to tryRead More
Shocking(ly tame) NEA audio and transcript released
There have been some significant recent developments in the whole NEA conference call “scandal,” so rather than consign them to the next around the horn post, I figured I’d wrap them up for you here. The most important development is that Big Hollywood and Patrick Courrielche have finally released the full transcript and audio fromRead 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
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
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
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