The actor, who succeeded Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr, was asked what the Founding Fathers might have said. “Democracy is at work. … We had an election between two contentious individuals and one side won. That’s what it is.”
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What Might Donald Trump’s Attitude Toward The Arts Be? Who Knows?
“Though he has been front-and-center in public life for more than four decades in the country’s cultural capital, Mr. Trump has left a meager trail to suggest what positions he might take on public arts funding and arts education, along with issues like censorship and economic policies that would affect creative industries, not to mention how he and the first lady, Melania Trump, might decorate the White House.”
A Cleveland-Area Funder Of Artists Changes Its Criteria And Artists Wonder Why
Why switch from a program that emphasized the quality of the artist’s work to one that emphasizes the degree to which the artist “makes change” in his or her community?
What Constitutes Success In The Arts In The 21st Century?
After leading with a set of disheartening statistics – culminating is the estimate that, even for the few that make a full-time living from their work, only about 20% of their time goes into the actual making of art – writer Alexis Clements spoke with four artists about better ways to define success than money earned or not needing to have a day job.
Subsidizing Arts Tickets Hasn’t Succeeded In Broadening The Arts Audience. So Maybe Something Different?
“The uncanny similarities between this year’s Culture White Paper and its 1965 ancestor (along with the Warwick Commission and much other research) show that this hasn’t really produced an arts sector that enfranchises everyone, despite the best intentions of policymakers. Countless initiatives (and millions of pounds) have been spent trying to shift the demographic profile of arts audiences and workers in the sector. They have remained stubbornly white and well-off.”
In The Time Of Trump, The Arts Might Actually Flourish
“The United States may be entering a time of great conservative reactionism, but it will be also, due to its unique traditions, a place of unfettered expression. This is a state whose extreme conservatives – unlike those anywhere else – value free speech above almost any other right. So banning expression of any kind is not going to be possible, even under the most troglodytic of Trumpian administrations. The protest art will flourish.”
Lincoln Center Goes To Barnard College For Next President
Debora L. Spar, who studied ballet from girlhood through college, has had a very successful tenure as president of Barnard, where the students evidently adore her. She takes the Lincoln Center helm at what the Times‘s Michael Cooper calls “a delicate moment.”
Seattle’s EMP Museum Changes Its Name… Again
First it was Experience Music Project. Then it was the acronym EMP, then Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (“EMPSFM” for short-ish), then EMP Museum. Now the institution founded by former Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen in 2000 and designed by Frank Gehry is becoming the Museum of Pop Culture, or MoPOP.
So The Arts Are Progressive?? Study Finds Big Gender Gap In Pay In The Arts
“Specifically, they found the mean annual income for male artists was $63,061, compared to $43,177 for their female counterparts. After further crunching the numbers, they report that a variety of factors that could influence income — including age, education, one’s specific artistic discipline, and the number of hours worked — only accounted for about one-third of that difference.”
Artists And The Non-Arts Audience – A Different Kind Of Conversation
“For the artists to figure out a way to be in a conversation with this audience — a whole community of new eyes — is really exciting. Navigating that common space and figuring out what can be done to engage with this crowd while also what can be done to make things happen outside of that space.”