From the category archives:
Site Seeing
Nights at the Museum,
Without Going Anywhere
New Site Features Video Content
Produced By Various Arts Institutions
ArtBabble, a new site that went public this week, could very well become an online mecca for those interested in the visual arts. At least that’s what its creator, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, would like to see happen, as would its various partners—institutions ranging from The New York Public Library to MoMA and Art21.
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Celebrate Poetry
“April is the cruelest month.”—from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
It’s also National Poetry Month, and the Academy of American Poets (which started the annual celebration in 1996 as a means to rekindle interest in the art and to highlight its important role in American culture) is offering a Poem-A-Day throughout the month—a new poem direct to you inbox to begin your day. Read more…
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UPDATE: Arts Funding Restored in Final Stimulus Bill
Supporters of the arts received good news late Friday when the Senate voted 60 to 38 in favor of a $787 billion economic stimulus bill following a 246-183 House vote earlier in the day. The bill included $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, which seemed to be in serious jeopardy mid-week. Read more…
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Stimulating Arts
Critics of the economic stimulus plan (read: impotent Republicans in Congress) have, throughout the debate over the size and scope of the package, cherry-picked various programs—ones, of course, that they don’t like or that run counter to their ideology—as evidence of “pork.” And in some cases, both in the House and especially in the Senate, Democrats have caved, stripping billions of dollars from the package in the name of bipartisanship, despite the obvious ways in which these programs would have played important roles in moving this country forward during tough economic times. Read more…
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Reviving the Arts,
Resurrecting The Dead
Despite the increasingly unambiguous value of arts education in American schools, thanks to scores of studies and surveys in recent years, government funding of arts education, and the arts in general, seems to ignore those established, consequential benefits—not only for students that are directly impacted, but all of society. Read more…
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