Frumkin’s overview of the whys and wheres of the nonprofit corporate status provides a clear and balanced view.
Archives for August 2003
The Lure of Something New…
There have been a large number of stories about ‘flash mobs’ recently (here’s one from the Philadelphia Inquirer, another in Canada, and one from across the pond in the EU). If you want more, check out this Google News search on the subject. A flash mob is a sudden gathering of strangers, usually drawn together […]
Gone fishing…
I’m off-line most of today (and possibly tomorrow), so I’ll point you instead to a great interchange that’s happening among two other blogs in my neighborhood. Both Greg Sandow and Terry Teachout reference an Opera News piece about the bleak future of opera on PBS, and both have a different take. Here’s Sandow’s perspective: What […]
The Arts Dividend
There’s yet another study (login with username: ‘ajreader’ and password: ‘access’), this time in Minnesota, on the economic value of the arts in a local economy. The ‘great cities’ class of justification for public art support (that great cities have arts, and lame cities do not), is just the latest in a long line of […]
Feedback
Time for a little housecleaning on this weblog, namely posting some of the responses I’ve received about previous posts. Thanks to all of you for your comments and notes, and if others have a thought, link, article, or complaint about the topic of arts management, please send them along to me. Drew McManus took some […]