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Arts Find Ways to Up Income and Audiences
In hard times,
cultural groups are finding new ways to generate income and attract new
audiences. Retail sales tie-ins, pay-per-view performance broadcasts, low-price
ticket offers and unusual fundraising concepts are weapons in the arts
arsenal... READ MORE...
Cultural Anniversaries Celebrated Worldwide
Add a zero to virtually any year
and you have an anniversary. From 50 to 400 years, with many stops in between,
anniversaries of artists, arts groups, arts movements and historic events are
being celebrated with cultural programs throughout the world designed to raise
visibility, attract new audiences and launch new programs and concepts...
AM Round-up of Major Developments in the Arts
Despite the economic malaise,
there has been an air of optimism since the election of President Barack Obama,
whose arts platform was the most detailed ever offered by a presidential candidate...
Significant New Arts Studies Are Published
New studies are providing arts groups
with needed data on such varied topics as the economic status of artists, the
role of state arts agencies, corporate giving, nonprofit theater growth, the
impact of cultural facility construction, and first-time concert attendees...
AM Briefs on Target
A round-up of news and notes on the arts world...
A New Partnership
It isn’t often that we use these pages for a message to our
readers. We try to use all the space at our command to report on news, trends
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CHECKLIST
A selective memo on relevant reading including
a few titles from places not on the beaten cultural path.
- The Arts -- Culture and the Obama Agenda,
Newsweek, Jan. 19, 2009, p. 48.
- Arts Leaders
Urge Role for Culture in Economic Recovery, New York
Times,
Jan. 26, 2009, p. C1.
- In
Madrid, Banking on the Art Scene, New York Times, Travel
Section, Dec. 21, 2008, p. 3.
- City’s
New Arts ‘Czar’ Rules A Tottering Empire, Philadelphia Inquirer,
Nov. 30, 2008, p. H11.
- Network Europe (European arts and culture networks), Arts Professional,
Dec. 1, 2008,
p. 12.
- No Bailout for the Arts? Washington Post, December 29, 2008, p. A15.
- Soaring
in Art, Museum Trips Over Finances, New York Times,
Dec. 5, 2008, p. 1.
- Making Art a Federal Issue? ARTnews, January 2009, p. 46.
- Culture Flash—How Arts Groups Are Exploiting Technology to Get a Leg
Up in the Recession, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Feb. 12, 2009, p.
T-2.
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