Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to deputize the nation’s colleges to fight illegal file sharing on campus.
It’s hard to avoid being cynical about this. The Democratic Party gets a lot of love from Hollywood, which is increasingly panicked about the alleged threat to its business model from peer-to-peer networks. Since college networks [...]
Earlier this month, Americans for the Arts reported that The Artist-Museum Partnership Act (aka the Artist Deduction bill) is gaining momentum in the House and the Senate. The House Bill now has 50 co-sponsors and a Senate Bill has 23 co-sponsors.
I have always found it troubling that artists who donate their work may only claim [...]
I know I just wrote my first post, but I felt it was more of an overview than anything else. I wanted to follow up with this one, which takes me back to my days as an entry-level employee in the Theater & Musical Theater disciplines at the National Endowment for the Arts. I support [...]
I figure I should start my first post by offering an explanation for the phraseology of my blog’s title — Art is Not a Four-Letter Blog.
As I’m a member of the Emerging Leader Council, an advisory council of Americans for the Arts, I hear their slogan quite a bit — “Art. Ask for more.” And [...]
“I see technology as a tool that can be integrated seamlessly with the human mind,” says Fractured Atlas member Treva Wurmfeld, a filmmaker, sculptor, and performance artist who was featured at the 2006 benefit. Her work explores the relationship between biology and technology and how human beings are adapting to a world in the [...]
Several years ago, Fractured Atlas member Joshua Frankel was touring Northern Ireland. One of the stops on the tour was an attraction called the Peace Wall. “I expected some sort of wall covered in murals commemorating the peace process,” says Joshua. “In fact, the ‘Peace Wall’ is a twenty-five foot high wall topped with barbed [...]
The Asian Pacific American Film Festival was founded in the year 2000 by a small group of people that wanted to expand access to independent films being made by Asian Americans. In the seven years since, the festival has had tremendous success in bringing these unique voices to a broader audience.
“We’ve really grown in terms [...]
Project Shaw is an ambitious undertaking that will present every play written by George Bernard Shaw as concert readings at New York’s legendary Player’s Club.
The driving force behind the project is Fractured Atlas member David Staller, the Artistic Director of Gingold Theatrical Group and a lifetime Shaw aficionado. “Shaw’s voice has been an anchor of [...]
In the 1950’s, the writer Norman Corwin asked a little girl which she liked better, TV or radio. The little girl said she preferred radio “because the pictures are better.”
That girl has a kindred spirit in Fractured Atlas member Lance Roger Axt, the artistic director of Play it by Ear Productions. Play it by Ear [...]
Of all the artists featured at last year’s Benefit, few are as well-traveled as violinist, composer, and Fractured Atlas member William J. Harvey. Over the past two years his project Music for the People has ventured to Zimbabwe, Moldova, the Philippines, and Tunisia to present concerts, classes and workshops to underprivileged populations. He [...]
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