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What I Am Giving Thanks For This Year

Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arts Management, Nea, Pregones Theater, Ritz Theatre, Arts, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Penumbra Theatre, Arts in Crisis, Kennedy Center, Neh, Entertainment News

At the beginning of this year, there were predictions that as many as 10,000 American not-for-profit arts organizations would go bankrupt as a result of this recession.

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What Artists Could Teach Goldman Sachs

Ruth Sherman | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Leadership, Goldman Sachs, Education, Elliot W. Eisner, Public Relations, Arts, Stanford University, Education Reform, Arts Education, Communication, Business News

As Goldman Sachs may be discovering, belatedly and to its chagrin, image matters. Perception is reality. Therefore, if we want business and government to do better by us, we need more arts education, not less.

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Meta-Views: The Economic Crisis and America's "Art Ecology"

Randall Bourscheidt | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York

Read More: American Cities, Arts, Cities, Culture, New York News

We should push the federal government to lead a movement for a new urbanism, a systematic approach to building up the economies and physical and social infrastructures of American cities.

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I Like Art (and Art Education) But

Alan Singer | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Yankees, Arts, Education, Education Reform, Arts Education, Michael Bloomberg, New York News

Claims made in a recent report by the Center for Arts Education crediting the arts in school with promoting higher graduation rates are an exaggeration and misleading.

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The Evolution of Boards

Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arts Management, Arts, Kennedy Center, Board Development, Non-Profit, Entertainment News

Most board members I meet are scared and frustrated and most staff members believe their board members are not being as generous or as helpful as they should be during this crisis.

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Gulf Sees Arts Explosion (VIDEO)

Al Jazeera English | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Arts, Abu Dhabi, Doha Film Festival, Qatar, Doha Tribeca Film Festival, Culture, Dubai, World News

The Gulf state of Qatar is preparing to welcome the Hollywood glitterati onto its shores, for the country's inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival. T...

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Where Is the Arts Programming on PBS?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Wnet, Penumbra Theatre, St. Louis Opera, Pbs, Entertainment News

Why can't PBS be reorganized? Why can't there be a mix of local and national programming? Why can't the parent organization determine the best in American arts and fund its broadcast across the nation?

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Michelle Obama and I Agree: Commit to the Arts in Schools

Michael Tilson Thomas | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pbs, Michelle Obama, Classical Music Reviews, San Francisco Symphony, Arts, Keeping Score Season 2, Arts Funding, Barack Obama, Classical Music, Keeping Score, Kqed, San Francisco, PBS Documentaries, San Francisco-California, Michael Tilson Thomas, Symphony, National Endowment for the Arts, Entertainment News

With state budgets under attack, we in the arts are bracing for a familiar song: whether or not to fund arts in the schools.

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How Helpful Is Cultural Diplomacy? Very Helpful!

Karen Brooks Hopkins | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Arts, DanceMotion USA, Muslim Voices, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Cultural Diplomacy, New York News

When talking just won't do, art can be a way of opening doors, getting acquainted and learning more about the other side.

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The Magic and Music of Cirque Du Soleil's Kooza

Brett Greene | Posted 09.28.2009 | Denver

There simply is no higher form of entertainment than a night under the tent with Cirque Du Soleil's experience of dreaming while awake in a magical atmosphere.

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An Inspiring Trip to New York City

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Lark Play Development Center, Martha Graham Center, New York City Opera, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Philanthrophy, Publicolor, Arts, Non-Profits, New York News

The line between sickness and health in the arts is a slim one. Arts organizations always grow to the point that they are uncomfortable financially.

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Oh, the Horror! NEA Under Fire for Community Organizing

Matt Osborne | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arts, Nea, Nontroversy, National Endowment for the Arts, Yosi Sergeant, The Arts, Big Hollywood, Politics News

According to some in the wingnutosphere, asking arts organizations to consider creating opportunities for volunteerism is the slippery slope to Orwellian dystopia.

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MacArthur Genius List: 2009 Grant Winners Announced

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Sciences, Macarthur Foundation, Journalism, MacArthur Awards, Winners, Who Won Genius Grant, MacArthur Genius Award List 2009, Genius Awards, Arts, Grants, Home News

The following 24 fellows each will receive $500,000 over the next five years from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: _Lynsey Addario,...

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MacArthur Genius Award-Winners: Foundation Awards Grants

AP | By DON BABWIN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Macarthur Foundation, Social Justice, Sciences Health, Arts, Science, MacArthur Genius Award, Justice, Journalism, MacArthur Grants, Home News

CHICAGO (AP)-- A newspaper reporter who refuses to forget decades-old murders and a law professor trying to get people to forget the way they think ab...

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How Helpful Is Cultural Diplomacy?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arts, Diplomacy, State Department, Cultural-Diplomacy, Kennedy Center, Politics News

As the Obama administration tries to rebuild America's image abroad, do we need to send dance companies and theater companies abroad?

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Jim Carroll Dead: 'Basketball Diaries' Author, Poet And Punk Rocker Dies

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Basket Ball Diaries, Jim Carroll Dead, Punk, Culture, Poetry, Punk Rock, Books, Music, Arts, Jim Carroll, Upper West Side, New York, Punk Music, Nyc Art, New York Art, Media News

NEW YORK — Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60. He died from a heart attack at his...

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Back to School

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education, Education Reform, Lausd, Antonio Villaraigosa, Back to School, Boyle Hieghts, Partnership School, Children, English, Mathematics, Los Angels, La, School Districts, Parenting, School Safety, S Status Quo, Los Angeles Mayor, Arts, Politics News

We are entering a new era of accountability and reform in the Los Angeles education system, where public schools strive for metrics-driven change -- and are held accountable to achieve it.

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The Biggest Problem Facing the Arts

Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arts Management, Arts, Kennedy Center, Entertainment News

The main challenge facing the arts world is the lack of a trained corps of managers who know how to find resources, attract audiences and other constituents and provide support to our artists.

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1000 Journals and the Capacity for Hope

James M. Lynch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: The Audacity of Hope, Arts, 1000 Journals, Journaling, Hope, Activism, Seminars, Chicago, Living News

The agenda was: here's a blank page, please fill it in, pass it on and return it to me. It's simple, straightforward, open and effective.

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The Remarkable Barney Simon

Michael Kaiser | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Arts Management, Arts, Market Theatre, Theater, South Africa, Apartheid, Arts in Crisis, Barney Simon, Economic Crisis, World News

Barney Simon was the founder and artistic director of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, where for several decades, he produced and directed many of the most important works of indigenous South African theater.

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Artistic Directors Versus Executive Directors

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Artistic Directors, Arts Management, Arts, Executive Directors, Mission Statements, Kennedy Center, Entertainment News

Amidst all of the pain and fear of the economic crisis, one area of conversation always gets a laugh: the way to reduce tension between artistic directors and executive leadership.

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Why I Worry About Modern Dance

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arts, Modern Dance, Dance, Merce Cunningham, Kennedy Center, Alvin Ailey, Entertainment News

Virtually every great modern dance company was founded more than 40 years ago. Where is the current, not to mention next, generation of great modern dance companies to carry the torch?

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The Power of Joint Ventures

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chicago Symphony, Hubbard Street Dance, Arts Management, Arts, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Joint Ventures, Entertainment News

In my travels across the nation I have been hearing a lot of discussion about the glut of arts organizations and the need to "thin out" the field. This scares me greatly.

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My Visit to Kalamazoo

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arts, Kalamazoo, Arts in Crisis, Arts Education, John F. Kennedy Center, Arts Funding, Entertainment News

Next time any government official in Washington or elsewhere says that the arts are elitist or that everyday people don't care about the arts, I am going to suggest they visit Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Do We Need a National Black Arts Festival?

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 08.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: High Museum of Art, Fulton County Georgia, Atlanta, Robert Townsend, Radcliffe Bailey, Arts, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Obama, National Black Arts Festival, Monet, Dianne Reeves, Entertainment News

The National Black Arts Festival exists to honor, to remember, to look forward, and to celebrate the cultural contributions of all people of African descent -- here and now.

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