The Kansas City Ballet is a classic example of an art-focused turnaround. The substantial community of arts sponsors came to think of the company differently.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment
At first blush, my Arts in Crisis tour stop in Grand Rapids seemed ill-timed. Yet I arrived at the first week of ArtPrize, an innovative new arts project that has electrified the city and the region.
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 09.03.2009 | 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.
Brian Dickie | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
Audiences are not behaving the way they used to and given that the whole model for American performing arts assumes a predictable pattern of behavior, this is making us think.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment