ART AND THE GOVERNMENT Seems that New York City’s recent bill forcing schools to report out on the availability of arts education in its schools comes not a moment too soon: an audit from the state comptroller found that roughly half of seniors graduated from high school without having met arts education requirements. Denver isRead More
Value vs. Value: An inside look at appraising artworks in museums
People like to say that art is priceless, but for at least some arts workers, that doesn’t make any sense.
Around the horn: just another government shutdown edition
ART AND THE GOVERNMENT The public has spoken: polling released in late September shows 75% of Detroiters oppose cutting pensions and 78% oppose selling artwork from the Detroit Institute of Arts to ease the city’s financial troubles. Meanwhile, the DIA is pitching a long-shot plan to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder that would direct significant state funding toRead More
Paging Michael Rushton
Future of Music Coalition Policy Intern Cody Duncan describes some recent innovations in video game bundling, and suggests that musicians (and presumably purveyors of other digital content) can learn a thing or two. As a systems geek, I’m particularly impressed by some of the thinking around combining pay-what-you-can with gamification: Taking a cue from the successRead More
Around the horn: John Oliver edition
ART AND THE GOVERNMENT Two new Presidential cabinet nominees, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, have pro-arts backgrounds according to Americans for the Arts’s Bob Lynch. The Atlanta Regional Commission is one of the only metropolitan planning organizations and one of the largest communities to date to attempt to bring the arts and creativeRead More