Robert Bettmann

The arts are positively integrated into the Occupy Movement in several ways, but they are also a front on which activists are attacking the economic system.

While the arts field wrestles internally with issues of diversity and aging, attacks by Occupy activists are actually an...

Last week, arts advocates visited with District of Columbia City Council members to learn which policy-makers support an increase in arts funding within D.C.'s FY 13 budget. Some members went on the record supporting a $10 million dollar (plus) funding level for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities,...

Writing in the Huffington Post two weeks ago, Michael Kaiser, the doyen of arts management, raised an alarm for arts criticism, arguing that the Internet is undermining the arts field. Kaiser wrote, "one of the substantial changes in the arts environment that has happened with astonishing speed is...

The Historic Lincoln Theater on U Street is sparking an important and emotional debate about arts infrastructure in the District of Columbia. The city-owned Lincoln has a looming budget shortfall, and is on the brink of closing, and D.C. politicians are split about the responsibility government has to...