The NAC Foundation has spent the past eight years raising capital for the fund, which now stands at more than $23-million. NAC president and CEO Peter Herrndorf said the fund is not meant to be a self-sustaining endowment. “We’ll invest $3-million a year for six or seven years, and if at the end of that period it is seen to have had an impact, we can fundraise from there … If it’s not a success, we’ll say, ‘This was an interesting way to approach it, maybe we’ll look for a different way.’ ”The main idea, Herrndorf said, is to put enough cash into the hands of artists to make an exponential difference in artistic outcomes. “We want to get as much of that money into artists’ hands as possible, as quickly as possible.”
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Warning: Changes In Tax Law, Government Funding, Could Be Existential Challenge For The Arts
“The sober fact is that the map depicting the location and service-area of the vast majority of cultural organizations looks a lot like the map of Clinton supporters. Museums, theaters, orchestras, dance companies, performing arts centers and music schools are concentrated in urban areas and the densest concentrations are in the most liberal cities: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston, Seattle.”
The Arts Are Going To Need More Volunteers In The Time Of Trump
“If we want the arts to save our world, we’ll have to make it happen with much less government, which means much more private-sector time and money. Which brings us back to the issue of volunteerism in the arts. Whereas volunteers used to be a good way to reduce costs and improve engagement, volunteers are about to become the life-blood of the sector.”
Put Down ‘Miracle On 34th Street’ And Watch These Almodovar Movies At The Holidays
Now that all 19 of the director’s feature films are available for streaming on iTunes, here’s a survival guide to making it through the holidays with family, friends, and Almódovar.
What Does Fidel Castro’s Death Mean To A Generation Of Cuban Artists?
Fidel Castro was sidelined from power a decade before he died – and artists were still repressed and controlled. But his death “does mark a tremendous psychological milestone.”
Do These Photos Show A Glimpse Of Gauguin In Tahiti?
Maybe. “If these two photographs are actually of Paul Gauguin, then they tell us a great deal about his state of mind and his social entourage during the summer of that year.”
If Julian Barnes Can Admit He Was Wrong About E.M. Forster, We All Have Hope For Re-evaluating Books (And Writers)
Barnes thought Forster was stuffy and boring, and perhaps a little straitlaced. Then he read an anthology of English food writing. “Where was that fusty, musty, dusty writer I had imagined Forster to be? Nowhere at all.”
Katie Holmes On Being A Director – And How To Make That Happen For More Women
The interviewer asks Holmes if the producers of a Jackie Kennedy Onassis miniseries simply asked her to direct one episode. Holmes, who also just directed a feature film: “Well no, I told them I wanted to. I said, ‘You’ve got to give me one episode.’ We gotta speak up … and get what we want, because no one’s going to give it to us.”
A 360-Degree Video Of Anna Netrebko, Backstage At The Met
This is a New York Times experiment that you’ll need to play, and play with, in order to appreciate.
Here’s A Prize For Actor Alan Tudyk: He’s (Probably) The First Actor To Play A Chicken And A Robot At The Same Time
The actor, known for “Firefly,” discusses how he did research to play the rooster in “Moana” and the robot in the new Star Wars film. “It’s amazing to me that they’ve got four hours’ worth of me making chicken sounds. It’s very thorough. How do you choose from Take One to Take Six, which ‘pee-cawwwwww’ really sells it?”