The Importance of Being Flexible
A couple weekends ago, I gave a brief presentation to a group of high school students attending their very first opera. It was exciting to have them there and to share the performance with them. I love opera – the music, the drama, the sets and costumes, the voices – so being able to talk [...]
Budget Increase for Arts and Humanities Endowments
“This important budget increase recognizes the essential role the arts play in our lives, schools, and communities,” said Robert L. Lynch, president and chief of Americans for the Arts, an advocacy group, in a statement. Click here to read the full article that made my day.
A New Take on Cultural Diplomacy
Ever since I took a course on Comparative Cultural Policy (and went to London to really compare, natch), I’ve been a big fan of bringing back the cultural diplomacy efforts present in most presidential administrations Pre-Bush, Jr. I had high hopes for President Obama working that angle to smooth feathers ruffled by his predecessor, but [...]
Intellectual Property Rights v. Debt
I just read this article and it made me sad. Photographer Annie Leibovitz may lose the rights to her artwork because she used it as collateral to obtain a loan to fend off her mounting debts. Leibovitz faces a Tuesday deadline to repay a $24-million loan from a New York art-finance company. Art Capital Group [...]
Free Stuff Friday: An Ode to Open Source
I love open source software. Yep, I wear my geek badge proudly! Since I work in the nonprofit field, I know many of those organizations want to play with the big guns, but can’t unless they get a grant or major donation. I recently heard of one monster program (which I’m not going to name, [...]
Early Scottish Music Notation
Go read this article. Too cool! Markings on a 16th Century carving from Stirling Castle could be the oldest surviving piece of written Scottish instrumental music, historians believe. A sequence of 0s, Is and IIs have been found on one of the Stirling Heads – wooden medallions which would have decorated the castle’s royal palace. [...]
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