Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
There are more than enough sacred cows in this field to go around and if you’ve ever had to go up against one, you know how difficult it is to make headway. Pushback is usually swift and aggressive but that doesn’t mean you can’t think your way through the process. Theoatmeal.com’s Matthew Inman published a wonderfully remarkable post on the sort of thinking that goes into sacred cows, or what people …
Although the Trump administration may consider the arts and humanities as nothing but waste, it appears Congress doesn’t share such a dim view. On Monday, May 1 congress reached a budget agreement that matins existing funding and proposes modest increases for 2017 (h/t @Americans4Arts). PROGRAMS 2016 Appropriations (in millions) Proposed funding through 9/30/17 National Endowment for the Arts $148 $150 National Endowment for Humanities $148 $150 Assistance for Arts Education through …
If there was only one tech oriented skill I could recommend to arts marketers that will help them stand out from their peers, it would be learning CSS. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), is a style sheet language that tells a website how to look and since that’s the component most people have an easiest time connecting with, it doesn’t take much to see how learning the basics of CSS can increase …
It isn’t often we get to revisit a topic more than eight years later but it looks like the long running legal dispute between composer Nathan Currier and the now defunct Brooklyn Philharmonic is finally resolved. When we last examined the dispute in 4/14/2009, we discovered a debacle of a new music commission project that ended up with the orchestra stopping the premier of Currier’s Gaian Variations without performing the entire work. …
The embargo is officially lifted and I’m very happy to announce the winner of the Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) 2017 Content Competition Winner is Yuha Jung. Ms. Jung, an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky, will give a presentation on her winning entry at the AAAE 2017 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. The article, titled Diversity Matters: Theoretical Understanding of and Suggestions for the Current Fundraising Practices of Nonprofit Art …