Last week, Barry Hessenius interviewed Jamie Bennett, chief of staff and director of public affairs at the NEA, about his thoughts on the arts and culture landscape as Rocco Landesman’s chairmanship comes to a close.
When asked about the most critical issues facing the field in the near-to-mid term future, Jamie responded with some thoughts on [...]
Over the summer, Michael Kaiser published a series of posts complaining about a lack of specificity in the ongoing chatter about a need for “new models” in the arts. I responded on this blog, both times, with my own thoughts on the subject.
Last week, Kaiser published another post in which the critics are once again [...]
For years, the single metric that we cited most often at Fractured Atlas was our total membership. Fractured Atlas began its life as a membership organization and remains one at its core.
Recently, however, we’ve started introducing some services that aren’t membership-based (e.g., Artful.ly, Spaces, Archipelago), which made the membership number an incomplete indicator of our [...]
As a teenager watching late-night MTV in the 1990s, I somehow failed to predict that, 20 years later, I would be interviewed by Kennedy for a leading libertarian publication on the subject of federal funding for the arts. And yet, this happened:
Here’s the full article and video.
Although Fractured Atlas is a national organization, our office is in midtown Manhattan and about 40% of our members are in the NYC-area. As such, we’ve had front row seats for Sandy and its aftermath. Fortunately everyone on our staff is fine, and our office is fully operational. Many of the artists and organizations in our community were [...]
If you haven’t heard of ArtsReady, now is as good a time as any to acquaint yourself. It’s an emergency preparedness tool provided by South Arts. Fractured Atlas was a partner on its creation.
In the aftermath of Sandy, arts organizations are struggling with a host of challenges, from lost income to flooded facilities. I asked [...]
Today I am pleased to announce the release of Artful.ly Open Source Edition v1.0.
Many readers will already be familiar with Artful.ly, Fractured Atlas’s cloud-based web app that empowers artists and arts organizations with tools for ticketing, donor management, and more. Artful.ly Open Source Edition (OSE) is the underlying engine that powers Artful.ly, and it is [...]
This is perhaps a little old, but it’s thought-provoking enough that I had to share it: Colby Cosh on artisan chocolate and social revolution.
Cosh’s blog post/essay muses on some very big ideas about the future of labor and society:
We have learned to live with the fact of life that manufacturing jobs are inherently less labour-intensive [...]
In our last episode, I responded to Michael Kaiser’s frustration with “new models” chatter.
Well, this week he’s back with New Models, Part 2, and you knew I wasn’t going to just sit here (even if I am supposedly on vacation!) Kaiser once again criticizes the critics for a lack of specificity:
The constant drumbeat for new models for [...]
Michael Kaiser is fed up with the ceaseless chatter about the need for “new models” in the arts.
If I hear one more pundit or read one more blog suggesting that ‘old models’ of arts organizations are dying and that ‘new models’ are needed I am going to scream. Expert after expert are calling for ‘new models’ [...]
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