Following a very bumpy first year, “the $473 million Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts center just completed its seventh season and finished the fiscal year with its sixth consecutive balanced budget.” The Arsht’s CEO, M. John Richard, talks about programming, fundraising, operations, and adapting to the long-anticipated redevelopment of the neighborhood.
Category: issues
13 Arts Groups Make Top Fundraisers List
“Thirteen arts and cultural institutions have made the most recent top 400 list of American charities, ranked by the donations they took in.”
When Poverty Makes Creative Dreams Impossible, We All Lose Out
“We rarely hear the stories of the poor as told by them. If they are told, it is by other artists who come into the neighborhood and interpret what they see. … Poverty is harsh, but it doesn’t strip away the desire or capacity to create.”
What Is The US Doing To Higher Ed, And Why?
Ask the British.
Is China’s Huge Market Worth The Censor’s Delete Button?
“The authors of sexually explicit works or those that touch on Chinese politics and history can find themselves in an Orwellian embrace with a censorship apparatus that has little patience for the niceties of literary or academic integrity.”
How Our Understanding Of Things Is Transferred (An Artistic Approach)
The art historian David Joselit has described paintings as deep reservoirs of temporal experience–“time batteries”–“exorbitant stockpiles” of experience and information. I would suggest that the same holds true for anything a student might want to study at Harvard University–a star, a sonnet, a chromosome.
Are Artists To Blame For Gentrification? Probably Not
“The current narrative – in newsrooms, in think tanks, in studios and galleries – has art at the bleeding edge of urban transformation. But this narrative is wrong – or at least it keeps getting told in the wrong way.”
How The US Government Shutdown Impacted The Arts
In oh so many ways…
Melbourne’s Arts Centre Posts $7M Deficit
“The anticipated financial loss for Melbourne’s premiere arts venue was officially put at $7.2 million in the annual report for 2012-13 laid before the State Parliament yesterday. … Judith Isherwood, Chief Executive of the troubled venue, defended the cost of investment in loss making projects like Einstein on the Beach and Robert Lepage’s nine-hour theatre piece, Lipsynch.”
France’s Bishops Re-Word The Lord’s Prayer (To Avoid Blasphemy, No Less)
“In a ruling long advocated by traditionalists and with implications for other-language versions of the prayer, the bishops have approved a new edition of the French-language bible which will include a revised wording of one of the prayer’s best-known lines, ‘Lead us not into temptation’.”