Hollywood has reinvented its core model at least six times in a century. The nonprofit arts model has reinvented itself exactly once. Now there may no choice. But what’s the case?
Just How Big is the Culture Economy?
Most arts policy debates happen at one scale. Most cultural activity happens at another. It turns out the gap between those two scales — between the world that the arts, funding fights, and nonprofit board meetings live in, and the world where most people actually encounter culture — is so large that it’s worth pausing to measure.
Inflection Point? A Crisis in Paying for Culture in the Age of Abundance
Our consumption of culture has never been higher. So why are culture producers melting down?
Business Models and a $9 Billion Idea
We need a significant, stable ongoing source of new funding that is politically insulated and inflation-proof.
The Party of Can't And Won't (So Let's Change The Conversation)
Mitt Romney said last week he’ll kick funding for the arts and public broadcasting to the curb if he gets to be president. “We’re not going to kill Big Bird, but Big Bird is going to have advertisements,” Romney said, while speaking at Homer’s Deli in Clinton, Iowa. Like virtually every other conservative candidate, Romney […]