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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.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.03.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Al Jazeera English | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
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...
Michael Kaiser | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment
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?
Michael Tilson Thomas | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment
With state budgets under attack, we in the arts are bracing for a familiar song: whether or not to fund arts in the schools.
Karen Brooks Hopkins | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York
When talking just won't do, art can be a way of opening doors, getting acquainted and learning more about the other side.
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.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
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.
Matt Osborne | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
According to some in the wingnutosphere, asking arts organizations to consider creating opportunities for volunteerism is the slippery slope to Orwellian dystopia.
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 09.22.2009 | Home
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,...
AP | By DON BABWIN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Home
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...
Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
As the Obama administration tries to rebuild America's image abroad, do we need to send dance companies and theater companies abroad?
AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
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...
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
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.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.08.2009 | Entertainment
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.
James M. Lynch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
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.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
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.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment
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?
Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Kristi York Wooten | Posted 08.22.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 08.20.2009 | Entertainment
When people say the arts are irrelevant, I have to disagree; the arts are simply too expensive.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living
Arts education is particularly important at this juncture in our economic history. With manufacturing jobs evaporating, we need more than ever to train our children to be creative, problem-solving members of our economy.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
Most people do not know that no fewer than nine government agencies provide support to arts in this nation.
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Alan Singer | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York