UPDATE: The first blogs are beginning to sign up to stream: www.createquity.com, www.artsDC.com, http://gatheringnote www.seattledances, www.salvadorcastillo.wordpress.com. One blogger has already tried to embed the feed in Blogger and got back an error. Anyone familiar with embedding in Blogger? Leave a note in the comments at the end of this post and we'll figure it out.UPDATE II: There's a fix [ONLY NEEDED FOR BLOGGER - OTHERS USE THE CODE AT THE END OF THIS POST] Rosie Gaynor at SeattleDances found for the Blogger embed: <object … [Read more...]
ArtsJournal Turns Ten Years Old
This week I gave a talk in San Francisco and I mentioned that Sunday - today - ArtsJournal is ten years old. In web terms, that makes us pretty old. Except, in the room were the editors of at least a couple of other arts sites that are older than AJ. Lori Sparrow of Voice of Dance and Patty Gessner of San Francisco Classical Voice run sites that are at least a couple of years older (also there was John Trippe who runs the very fun FecalFace.com; Zoneil Maharaj, who runs OhDangMag.com; and Marianne Stark, who writes the Stark Guide to San … [Read more...]

Our culture is undergoing profound changes. Our expectations for what culture can (or should) do for us are changing. Relationships between those who make and distribute culture and those who consume it are changing. And our definitions of what artists are, how they work, and how we access them and their work are changing. So... 
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Got 'em all done-even the candidates for office. KSAKatrina S. Axelrod on The Party of Can’t And Won’t (So Let’s Change The Conversation)
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Starting a New Conversation to Build Broad, Shared Support for the Arts - The Ripple Effects Report Doug is right! We...John Perreault on The Party of Can’t And Won’t (So Let’s Change The Conversation)
The arts make our lives better, a little less mean and nasty. The arts are pursued for human development ---...Suzanne Ishee on The Party of Can’t And Won’t (So Let’s Change The Conversation)
Great article, Doug, and further valid argument for changing the conversation. This is, I believe, exactly what Chairman Landesman...Steven Miller on The Party of Can’t And Won’t (So Let’s Change The Conversation)
Doug has written and easy piece - what's his suggestion to change the stupid argument from the right against the...william osborneq on The Party of Can’t And Won’t (So Let’s Change The Conversation)
Wrong box. I meant the link Mark Gerth gave.william osborneq on The Party of Can’t And Won’t (So Let’s Change The Conversation)
The link is about the financial troubles of the San Francisco Opera. A few comparisons help contextualize the situation....