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Tag Archives: Arts funding
Support for the Arts
The phrase “government support for the arts” is often understood to mean, “funding for the arts,” and by extension, at least for some, “funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.” This last made headlines last week when reports surfaced … Continue reading
Posted in arts infrastructure, Arts policy, Culture and democracy, Institutional Infrastructure
Tagged Arts funding, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB, Free speech, freedom of the press, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEA, NEH, travel ban
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Snake in the Suburbs
Yesterday, I found a dead rattlesnake in the gutter a couple of houses up the street from mine. My first reaction was, “there could be one of those in my own back yard – have to alert the kids and … Continue reading
Posted in Arts funding, Arts management
Tagged Arts funding, Empathy, fear, organizational design, rattlesnake
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A Pitch Too Far in San Diego
The program I direct, the Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship, was fortunate last spring to benefit from a new program of the AZ Commission on the Arts, Art Tank. Modeled loosely after the tv show “Shark Tank,” artists and organizations … Continue reading
Who Benefits?
Last week, a triptych by Francis Bacon, “Three Studies of Lucian Freud,” sold at auction for $142.4 million, a record auction price. The seller, an unnamed collector in Rome, gains significantly from the transaction as does the auction house and … Continue reading
Posted in Arts funding, arts infrastructure
Tagged Arts funding, Christie's, Francis Bacon, visual arts, Wild idea
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When Either/Or Hits Close to Home
I concluded my recent refutation of Peter Singer’s “Good Charity/Bad Charity” with the assertion “I believe that altruists don’t choose between, they choose both.” A subsequent experience seemingly refutes but then supports that statement. A friend, not a particularly close … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts funding, charitable giving, Charity, Jewish ethics
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Opportunity is Knocking
Bill DeWalt, former (and founding) director of the Musical Instrument Museum, wrote an op-ed piece in the Arizona Republic that delineates the challenges faced by the new arts leaders coming in to replace not only him, but also the leaders … Continue reading
From Reformation to Aggregation
Two years ago, when Ben Cameron of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation delivered the keynote address at the Second Biennial Pave Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Arts, and in his Ted talk of 2010, he spoke of the arts being … Continue reading
Michelle Obama’s Bully Pulpit
“every day through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imaginations to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.” The numbers aren’t in yet, but it is estimated that a … Continue reading
Catch 23 in Kansas
Wichita Public Radio did a story this week* about the before-and-after effects of the decimation and then partial restoration of the Kansas Arts Commission, now the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission. The change is not just rhetorical. The piece lists … Continue reading
It’s Complicated
Relationships are complicated. Perhaps none are more complicated than the relationship between art and money. What makes the relationship so complicated isn’t “love,” but “value.” Economic theories from Adam Smith to Karl Marx focus on the distinction between value-in-use (a … Continue reading
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