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Arts Advocacy Update CXIX: GA on My Mind; KY Behind

February 2, 2010
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A distillation of Arts Watch, the weekly e-blast of Americans for the Arts. This week: Build it and they won’t fund it.

 
 

5 Questions I've Never Been Asked: Political Subversities

February 2, 2010

Their take on politics derives energy from our national exhaustion with insurmountable issues

 

NYC Artist-Landlord Tax-Break Proposal Already Struggling for Support?

February 2, 2010

A consensus exploring a pro-arts real-estate tax credit in Gotham is emerging, but it needs public support.

 
 

Teachout Has a Teach-In; Mamet Says "Critics, Kiss My Ass"

February 1, 2010

Is David Mamet the biggest jerk in the American theater?

 

NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs to Slash Spending at Midyear?

February 1, 2010

Is this more evidence that the nonprofit arts business model is fundamentally dysfunctional?

 
 

5 Questions I've Never Been Asked: Brooke O'Harra

January 30, 2010

Says O’Harra, “Just go to Barnes and Noble and look…the number of plays by women is minuscule compared to those by men.”

 

You're a Composer in Manhattan or Queens and You Want Cash...

January 30, 2010

The first residencies? Spring 2009, with three Queens-based composers in residence at Flushing Town Hall.

 
 

Curse of the Legend Class: The Apparent Tragedy of Peter Brook

January 30, 2010

One comes away with the impression that one of the 20th century’s most influential theater directors has lived too long.

 

The Wing and More Than a Prayer: The Springboard NYC Program

January 30, 2010

When I first entered the industry, I wish there had been a program like this.

 
 

The Year of Living Statistically

January 29, 2010

Under scrutiny, all of Emily Glassberg Sands’ claims fell apart but one.

 

Is It Art Because You Say So? Or Because Everyone Says So?

January 28, 2010

We’re in an Orwellian trap: Freedom is Power. Control is Freedom. Everyone is Art.

 
 

Colella, Hoty, Gatton Join Acker and Pine for 'Monster' Reading

January 28, 2010

Revisiting plays from previous seasons — a legacy of the expanding Boomerang.

 

Helping Hayhurst: Radical-Right Bias Against the Arts

January 28, 2010

The flourishing of the arts means we’re doing well as a society. Fury toward the arts means an irregular heartbeat — or worse.

 
 

Massachusetts Lemon Law Allows for Obama Trade-In

January 28, 2010

Massachusetts, a hardcore blue state, exercised its Lemon Law rights to a full refund — by voting in Scott Brown.

 

Arts Advocacy Update CXVIII: Playing with Dali, California Folly

January 22, 2010
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A distillation of Arts Watch, the weekly e-blast of Americans for the Arts. This week: Pouring salt on cuts.

 
 

5 Questions I've Never Been Asked: Jan Buttram

January 21, 2010

How many ways can you write, “I didn’t see which way he went?” It’s in the character’s background where you achieve specificity.

 

Admitting An Error, Restoring 'Hair': Letting All the Sunshine In

January 21, 2010

The sync-up of “Hair” with the National Equality March turned out to be no charitable one-off. I was wrong.

 
 

Pencils Up!: 35th Samuel French Fest Now Accepting Applications

January 21, 2010

40 short plays, one week and six finalists.

 

Movement Seen for Tax-Break Plan for NYC Landlords Leasing Space to Artists

January 20, 2010

A proposed tax break for landlords who give “longer leases at below-market rates” to artists is gaining political momentum in Gotham.

 
 

The Phantoms of Holden Caulfield's Youth

January 20, 2010

If we lose the unique stock that defines its sense of place, New York City will be “like everywhere else, but more expensive and less convenient.”

 
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