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Senate investigators estimate that Americans who hide assets in offshore bank accounts are failing to pay about $100 billion a year in taxes. In good times, that’s grossly unfair and bad for the country. In times like these, it should … Continue reading →

Photographs by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.

With the economy in free- fall and unemployment taking off, it’s no wonder college students these days are clamoring to study … music? Yes, music. As in symphony, opera and jazz. Applications are soaring at music schools across the country, … Continue reading →

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya6_EKPrMVI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] Williamsburg artist James Kalm pays tribute to the Williamsburg arts community and take on the current recession at the same time. James and Kate came up with this conceptual performance piece titled The James Kalm Artists Economic Stimulus Grant.

Last week, Slate launched “Shoot the Recession,” a project in which readers were asked what the economic crisis looked like to them. The responses are available on the photo-sharing site Flickr. As of this writing, the Flickr pool is home … Continue reading →

By all accounts but one, Fred Cray is a successful, thriving multimedia artist. He studied at Yale University’s prestigious graduate school and has several solo exhibitions under his belt. He is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant, and in 2003, … Continue reading →

Do Wall Street executives deserve big bonuses during hard times? Does increased arts funding have a place in an economic stimulus package? I’ll leave it to others to debate these controversies. Meanwhile I’d like to make a modest proposal to … Continue reading →

The first thing we need to do is reposition the role of arts + culture in society. For many reasons the arts have moved to the fringes of cultural conversation. We need to reintroduce the idea of the arts as … Continue reading →

The Low-Profit Limilted Liability Company (aka, the L3C) works to balance the nimbleness and clarity of a small business with the alternate income and capital opportunities of a nonprofit. As a refresher, corporate forms are creatures of the tax code … Continue reading →

With a tumbling economy, declining attendance and tapped-out donors, things are hard enough for the arts, historical museums and other cultural institutions. That’s why it’s all the more disturbing to see Oregon lawmakers rummaging for money in the only statewide … Continue reading →