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From Frank J. Barrett at Fast Company:
By Janet Brown from her blog Better Together:
I enthusiastically encourage anyone who has ever been involved with an arts organization that renovated, expanded or built new; a board that said, “if we only had more seats, we could sell more tickets;” a feasibility study that overstated the need for the building and understated the community’s ability to raise funds; an elected official who said, “what our small city needs is a world-class __________ facility;” or a funder that has been asked to support a building project to read Set in Stone, a recently released report from the University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center and NORC.
From Richard Dare at Huffington Post:
It's so much easier though to hold difficult questions at bay — to talk about art and music only in vague pseudo-academic terms, to pontificate about protecting the treasures of the past when we should be working instead to connect our most profound ideas, ambitions and dreams to our future. One cannot speak publicly about the meaning of great art or great music or great ideas without raising terrifying questions about who we are and why we have become this way and what the next chapter of our life should be. Fortunately though, these are the very questions that art is most well equipped to answer for us.
The Boeing Company announced today that Ms. Deepa Gupta has joined The Boeing Company as Director of Education Initiatives and Strategy. Based in Chicago, Deepa will concentrate on enhancing Boeing's support of early learning, primary and secondary education aimed at developing the future work force. Prior to Boeing, Deepa served as a program officer for The MacArthur Foundation, and in May she joined the National Council on the Arts.
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue announced on August 3 the appointment of Carolyn Ramo as Executive Director. Ramo assumed the post as of July 24, 2012. Ramo brings over ten years of experience as a senior manager at a range of prominent New York galleries and institutions, where she has gained invaluable experience in innovative programming and artist-focused infrastructure.
The Board of Directors of the Bush Foundation announced on July 30 that Jennifer Ford Reedy will join the organization as its next president. Reedy is the current chief of staff and vice president of strategy for Minnesota Philanthropy Partners (MN Partners), a network of organizations including The Saint Paul Foundation, Minnesota Community Foundation, F.R. Bigelow Foundation and the Mardag Foundation.
From Elizabeth Quaglieri at technology In the Arts:
From Lorna Kneeland, Executive Director of PONCHO, guest blogging at 4Culture:
From Kelly Chen and Imani M. Cheers at PBS Newshour:
From The Wall Street Journal News Graphics feed comes this illustration of how New York City ranks culturally to other major world cities.
