Category: issues

“We have been handed a massive challenge and we don’t yet see how we will make it work – it is not as if we haven’t already explored numerous funding options.”

“I’d love to see an increase in the arts’ commitment to research. But we should stop using it to prove that our work is valuable and start using it to improve the work that we do.”

“The director of Russia’s Bolshoi theatre vowed Wednesday to bring an end to the bitter infighting that culminated in an acid attack on its artistic director and create a ‘normal artistic atmosphere’ at the legendary institution.”

“Rep. Paul Ryan grabbed headlines last year when the House budget committee he chairs released a report claiming NEA grants are a “wealth transfer” from the poor to the rich.” A new study finds that this is not true.

“Whether separating art from artist is right or wrong is a question that provokes too many headaches to answer succinctly—but the ability and proclivity to do so is an inevitability of participating in modern culture.”

“I was so accustomed to the city’s absurd cult of money that it took me years to notice I didn’t have any artist friends left in Manhattan, and the artists and musicians I knew were slowly moving farther and farther east, with many parts of Brooklyn even becoming too pricey for aspiring or working artists.”

“Not everyone’s going to the strip clubs. Some people are actually, you know, writing poems when they’re at home or they’re working on a short story.”

“Our tendency to equate outward wealth with inner worth invokes deep psychological responses, feelings of dominance and subordination, superiority and inferiority. This affects the way we see and treat one another.”

Dylan Farrow’s “letter suggests a callous indifference by film professionals now celebrating their accomplishments in a series of ceremonies leading up to the March 2 Academy Awards. And it lands as Mr. Allen’s film ‘Blue Jasmine’ enters the Oscar balloting that begins Friday.”