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Both videos brighten my Sunday morning. Both also raise a serious point about intellectual property related to SOPA. I think the first video is okay and deserves legal deference. The second video seems markedly less legit. I’d pay $1.50 for both. (Note added-the original “dualing” passes the google test but not the more careful dictionary [...]
Archive for the ‘Arts and Cultural Policy’ Category
January 9th, 2012
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy
The worst piece of public art in Chicago Anyone know what the brilliant idea was here?
December 31st, 2011
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy
Edward Hopper’s paintings have a special emotional resonance for me. They capture moods and people and scenes that remind of the time in my life when I lived in a declining industrial city in the Midwest. I worked on a night shift, and with my body clock flipped from almost everyone else’s, I was awake [...]
December 30th, 2011
Big Bird, we need you to resolve the cultural contradictions of our capitalist society.
December 15th, 2011
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Psychology
Alec Baldwin was recently thrown off an airplane because he considered his computer game important enough to delay everyone else on board from getting to their destination. These sorts of celebrity temper tantrums surprise no one. We are used to famous actors, writers and musicians behaving in extraordinarily selfish ways. It’s not just anecdata: Psychiatric [...]
December 5th, 2011
Category: 501(c)(3), Arts and Cultural Policy, charity, NonProfits, Rhetoric and Framing, Uncategorized, Urban policy, Urbanism
(cross-post with nonprofiteer.net) Had a fascinating conversation recently with Margy Waller, a special advisor to Cincinnati’s ArtsWave, which leads the nation in evidence-based approaches to advocating for arts funding. Ms. Waller had reached out to correct my misunderstanding (and therefore misreporting) of ArtsWave’s efforts, noting that the argument is not that the public should fund [...]
August 26th, 2011
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Built Environment, Health Care, Higher education, Illinois, Law Notes, NonProfits, Supreme Court, Taxation, Urban policy
When Harold Pollack wrote about the recent Illinois Department of Revenue decision to withdraw property tax exemptions from three hospitals, he naturally focused on the impact of the decision on health care. But those of us who work in other areas of the nonprofit sector are worried by the decision as well-or, if we aren’t, [...]
May 1st, 2011
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Music, Politics and Leadership, Popular Culture, Struggle Between Good and Evil, Unions and organizing
This semester I laid on a freshman seminar about Art and Despair, partly because I was already offering Arts and Cultural Policy, partly because Cal had set up a program to encourage freshman seminars about art and promised Oakleys for any art event on campus. And partly because at that point in the fall I [...]
April 18th, 2011
I’m glad that Mike thinks that civilization has returned to the Bay Area. It’s about time. Here in Los Angeles, we have had a superb classical station, an excellent jazz station, two terrific news and general-interest programming stations, and a sort of mix-and-match music-news etc. station for a while. I couldn’t really expect such diversity [...]
