PBS is running a great series on contemporary art, art:21, that’s rich with metaphor and insight into the creative process…the process we managers are supposed to be supporting, nurturing, protecting, enabling. But it struck me, during the segment on performance/scupture artist Janine Antoni, that discovery and creation are the greatest energies arts organizations have to […]
Archives for September 2003
Google’s Birthday
September 7 was the fifth birthday of Google.com (reported everywhere, including this story from USA Today, and another from BBC News), the little search engine that changed the face of the Internet. While I tend to hate ‘best practices’ listings taken out of context and applied to arts management issues, I’ll break my own rule […]
Canadian Orchestras Unite
Thanks to an active reader of this weblog, Drew McManus, for providing a pointer to this article in La Scena Musicale. It discusses an initiative of Canadian orchestras to rethink what they do, and how they do it, and to get beyond the hyperbolic ‘crisis’ metaphors that seem to block our thoughtful view. The article […]
Is Art Good for Us?
Joli Jensen takes on a stubborn myth about the arts in American culture: that they make people and communities better. Jensen builds from a full range of authors, from Tocqueville to John Dewey, and maps out the history of this persistent belief in an effort to smash it apart.
Juxtaposition
Two stories in the news reinforce the growing power of earned income, as all other forms of income for arts and culture take a dive. On one hand, Philanthropy News covers this Wall Street Journal story about cutbacks and strategies of arts groups in the face of a down economy — ranging from reduced programming […]