Special Guest: Richard Florida
Kurt Andersen and economic development expert Richard Florida talk about how these shaky economic times affect the arts.Richard Florida is the author of The Rise of the Creative Class, which places...
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Many poets seek university positions for the economic stability they offer. Jane Hirshfield avoids teaching positions and finds other ways for her poetry to fund itself. Produced by Trey Kay.
View ArticleOregon Theater
The state of Oregon may be about to zero out its arts commission — and arts groups must make creative decisions about how to survive. Producer Dmae Roberts spoke with two theatre companies in Portland,...
View ArticleOregon Theater
Oregon has never ranked well in its per capita spending on the arts — at one point it even placed 52nd in the nation, because the charts included US territories like Guam. In that environment, arts...
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Richard Florida
Kurt Andersen and economic development expert Richard Florida talk about how these shaky economic times affect the arts. Richard Florida is the author of The Rise of the Creative Class, which places...
View ArticleCellist
Some say that orchestras are the canaries in the coal mines for arts funding. Nick Dargahi was playing cello for the San Jose Symphony when it went bankrupt last year. Produced by Trey Kay.
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Morning News by the Numbers
9,200 - That's how many bedbug complaints were filed through the city's 3-1-1 hotline last year. That's a 34 percent jump over the year before.24.6 billion - How many dollars New York State stands to...
View ArticleMuseum Rules
Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the New York Board of Regents, talks about the Board of Regents' decision to allow the ban on "deaccessioning" (selling or trading pieces in a collection) to expire today,...
View ArticleCon Edison Recognized For Supporting The Arts
When it comes to corporate support of culture in New York City, energy giant Con Edison stands out. That’s according to the advocay group Americans for the Arts’ annual list of the top ten US companies...
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Arts Funding and Apple Pie
As our nation again celebrates its birth and, with that, the best of who we all are as a people, I have been watching our leaders wrangle about the national budget and give alternative views of our...
View ArticleOccupy the Concert Hall? How Arts Donations Ignore Poor, Ethnically Diverse
As Occupy Wall Street protests spread over the perceived inequities between the very wealthy and the "other 99 percent" a new study on American arts funding makes a similar point. Its finds that...
View ArticleIn the Wake of Austerity, Europe Grapples with Arts Cuts
The headlines from Europe this summer are as persistent as a bad sunburn: the Dutch government has slashed arts funding by 25 percent, Italy’s La Scala opera house has announced a $9 million shortfall,...
View ArticleNEA Chairman to Step Down After 3 Years
The chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts is stepping down after three years on the job.Sixty-five-year-old Rocco Landesman announced his plan Tuesday to leave the post at the end of the...
View ArticleYo-Yo Ma Joins Rocker to Campaign for US Arts Funding
Former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to urge lawmakers to increase funding for the arts in a year of deep federal budget cuts.The rocker and...
View ArticleDana Gioia
Kurt asks Gioia, the departing chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, about his sense of where the arts in America are headed at this moment of flux. Gioia was a Bush appointee, but he's down...
View ArticleHouse GOP Vows to Slash Arts Funding
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans Monday proposed slashing cuts to environmental programs and funding for the Smithsonian Institution and the arts as they unveiled the latest legislation to...
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Boston brings the music back by boosting arts education
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But first: At a time when public schools across the country are cutting the arts out of education, a jazz musician in Boston is finding a way to push...
View ArticleHow to Save the NEA
With reports that President Trump may eliminate the NEA, Kurt calls up Dana Gioia, a former head of the NEA, for the skinny: What is the NEA? Why do some Republicans want to axe it? How much does it...
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Why small and rural arts groups may hurt the most under Trump’s plan to gut...
Preserving Our Appalachian Music receives support from the NEA to provide bluegrass music education in schools in Pickens, South Carolina. Credit: Kela SimpsonPresident Donald Trump’s proposed budget,...
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Protest at the Whitney Museum: 'Sage Is Medicine. Tear Gas Is Poison.'
Protesters with the group "Decolonize This Place" staged a demonstration at the Whitney Museum on Sunday afternoon, calling for a museum board member to step down. They also sought to draw attention to...
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