Category: issues

“For the first time, … the center wrapped up a fiscal year in the black – up $280,000 in net operational revenues when FY2012 came to a close at July’s end. The center, which released the numbers today following its annual audit, posted an operational loss of $3.3 million for FY2011.”

“I can’t say who is footing the bill until the ‘T’s are crossed and the ‘I’s are dotted, but this is going forward, no doubt,” says the CEO of the organization that owns the Tivoli. “There will be condos behind, a commercial shopping centre in front and the theatre will remain at the heart and soul of the whole business.”

There were a few…

“It has been nearly four weeks since officials at the Woodruff Arts Center announced that a former employee had bilked the institution out of $1.48 million by funneling money through a fake company he had set up. Since then, no one has been arrested and the name of the former employee suspected of embezzlement has not been released, leaving Woodruff supporters and observers frustrated.”

Says one arts exec, “Just three, four years ago, everybody was in the dire crisis. It was about surviving. To think that after that dark time, that we’re in the healthiest place we’ve been arguably in the last few decades, that’s an incredible statement considering what the whole nation’s been through.”

“As it did last year, the Museum of Contemporary Art dominated cultural headlines.”

“Ladeees and gentlemen, as we come to Christmas Eve – with the last spasm of guilt-stricken shopping under way – the two most maddeningly successful productions of 2012 were …”

“Maybe you’d like to help the Louvre buy a pair of 13th-century ivory statuettes, or the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon get the Ingres oil it so very much desires? Please?”

“In the aftermath of both events, artists and institutions have found creative, meaningful ways to respond. One common element has been music, to help raise money, offer solace and express what cannot be articulated in words.”

Now if the city can only not ruin it with old-school auto-centered thinking …