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Flop or success? Ask the accountant

June 28, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

Depending on how you measure, the Toronto run of The Producers has either been a terrible flop or a cash smash. The Toronto Star‘s Martin Knelman unbundles the question in yesterday’s edition, suggesting that ‘flop’ is often in the eye of the beholder (and the accountant): Should a show really be considered a flop when […]

More from Miami’s PAC

June 25, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

The Miami-Dade Performing Arts Center currently (and perpetually) under construction has bumped up its final project cost again (username: ajreader@artsjournal.com / password: access), much to the frustration and chatter of county government and citizenry. I’ve touched on the huge and complex project before (first in this weblog entry last September, and then again last November), […]

Selling Strads in bulk

June 24, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

A weblog reader sent some thoughts on the controversy of Herbert Axelrod and his valuation of his Stradivarius violins donated/sold to the Smithsonian and the New Jersey Symphony (touched on in a recent post). The perceived over-valuation seems to be fuel for the tax-reform fire currently smoldering in DC. This reader suggests that the claimed […]

Come on, get happy

June 23, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

A great short piece in the NY Times Magazine explores the darker side of happiness, as described in a recent journal article in Psychological Science (can’t link you there…sorry). Says the Times article: The happier your mood, the more liable you are to make bigoted judgments — like deciding that someone is guilty of a […]

Tax reform poster children

June 22, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette discusses emerging efforts to review in-kind contributions to nonprofits and their restrictions within the IRS tax code. It sounds like a deadly dull conversation, far less interesting than the NEA budget advances, but alert managers should take careful note. As the conversation is forming, arts and culture organizations are looming large in […]

When in doubt, look to the frogs

June 21, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

The Sunday New York Times was chock-a-block with interesting angles on arts management issues. Two of particular connection were an article on the slow vanishing act of architect Daniel Libeskind from the World Trade Center redevelopment; and another on the phenomenon of theater workshops of new works, and their tendency to kill full productions rather […]

Some tidbits while my brain cools

June 15, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

It was a long and fascinating week at the National Performing Arts Convention last week, likely to launch a hundred future blog entries. First, it all needs time to settle. In the meantime, some tidbits and pointers from some of the conversations in Pittsburgh that might be worth your attention: The San Francisco Symphony demoed […]

Off to Pittsburgh

June 4, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

I’ll be traveling to Pittsburgh all next week (June 8 – 13) for the National Performing Arts Convention. During the massive, cross-disciplinary event, I’ll be co-leading (with Alberta Arthurs and Steven Tepper) a research team of 20 graduate students, deployed across all the convenings to observe, capture, and document the big ideas and common challenges […]

Here’s a useful thought

June 3, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

Tessa Jowell of the UK’s Department for Culture, Media, and Sport has a bit of a radical thought for a government funder: perhaps our ‘public purpose’ approach to funding and fostering the arts for their instrumental benefits is missing the point entirely. In a bullet-point essay she published in May, she offers a thoughtful argument […]

Just don’t start playing solitaire

June 2, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

The New York Philharmonic recently tested a new audience information prototype (covered here in the New York Times, and also in Greg Sandow’s column), that feeds notes and insights about the current performance to the folks sitting out in the seats. It’s a wireless PDA-equivalent, currently called the Concert Companion, that’s designed as a performance-enhancement […]

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