Bolder Giving is offering a series of free hour-long telehone conversations with remarkable individual dnors. Founded by GIA member Anne Ellinger ( Zing Foundation), the first conversation will be with Mike Schaefer, the surviving life partner of an early Microsoft pioneer, who has distributed more than $180 million – nearly 100% of their assets – [...]
Diane Ravitch suggests three simple ways to provide the kind of education a parent wants for their child. Seems so simple. Maybe it’s time to simplify our approach to education reform…
Well, I certainly agree with you that all kids should have the quality of education now available only for students in the best schools. [...]
The closing keynote at the 2009 GIA conference in Brooklyn has generated some diverse responses.
Jacqueline Trescott in the Washington Post
Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune
David Ng in the LA Times
Arts Beat in the New York Times
Online on Art Knowledge News
Online on the Clyde Fitch Report
Online at CultureGrrl
On YouTube courtesy of CultureGrrl
Online on Entertainment Daily
And of [...]
Check out this new site about the framework was developed by the Cultural Policy Working Group created on May 12th, 2009, following a White House Briefing on Art, Community, Social Justice, National Recovery.
This Framework offers five concepts that hold the key to cultural recovery and its role in national recovery. Actualizing them will require our [...]
Despite its preoccupation with the economy, health care, two wars, and other pressing matters, the administration has already shown a real appreciation for the arts. Its White House performance programs are welcoming the diversity of American culture to the “People’s House.” It has appointed energetic new leadership to the Arts and Humanities Endowments and increased [...]
High school graduation rates and access to arts education are closely linked, according to a new study of New York City public high schools released today by The Center for Arts Education.
The report — titled “Staying in School: Arts Education and New York City High School Graduation Rates” — is the first-known analysis of [...]
Just in case you missed it. Check out reports by Ina David Moss from GIA’s 2009 conference right next door.
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman delivered a keynote address today to close the 2009 national Grantmakers in the Arts conference: Navigating the Art of Change. Read the full text of the address here.
Chairman Landesman announced that he will spend the next six months learning and highlighting the ways that art works in [...]
The popular Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Rush Tickets program returns for its third season. Thanks to a generous gift from Met Board member Agnes Varis and her husband, Karl Leichtman, two hundred orchestra seats are available for $20 for regular performances Monday through Thursday (excluding galas, special events, and opening nights of new productions), [...]
This report focuses on how community philanthropies – community foundations, loan funds, and others – are using mission investing to address these fundamental inequities in their communities. The social inequities shaped by race, ethnicity, class, and gender and sexual orientation are exacerbated by inequitable access to capital. Success stories abound of community driven efforts to [...]
What defines “fair use” in dance? Is it permissible to “borrow” choreographic devices if the movement is reinvented? If the dancers can’t execute the movement in the way it was originally intended, is there something interesting about that failure? If someone “stylistically” references a choreographer, should it be acknowledged as a derivative work, or is [...]
GIA’s Economic Turmoil and Change blog was originally conceived in early 2009 as a place to round up recession-related news and share information about the ways that funders were responding. That remains this blog’s focus, but as the year goes by, the stories and opportunities have changed, The recession is no longer “news” it [...]
As much as I dislike increasing their web stats by publishing the links, it is worth reading what the far right is saying about the arts (now including arts funders), and the Obama administration this week. – Tommer
Michael van der Gailen on Big Hollywood
Ben Shapiro on Big Government
Patrick Courrielche on Big Hollywood
“White Gold,” the ragged musician turned rock god thanks to the transformational powers of milk — is back in the spotlight. Today, White Gold launches his very own rock opera, Battle for Milkquarious, and the White Gold Milkdonkulous Giveaway — a contest that gives California teenagers and their public high schools the chance to win [...]
Today (10-2-09) an ambitious, first-of-its-kind National Summit on Arts Journalism takes place 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (PDT) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. The summit will be streamed live at www.najp.org/summit and simulcast at 17 satellite locations around the world.
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In what seemed a cultural coup, Seattle Art Museum officials opened a glistening glass-and- metal-paneled, $86 million addition in January 2007, just months after completing an acclaimed sculpture park.
The arrangement with Washington Mutual Inc. even offered the museum space for future growth along with income to pay down the cost of the extension.
When Washington [...]
