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May.27.2013
In New York for my book launch, I did some of the things I usually do: walked the streets endlessly on my way from one meeting to another, connected with old friends, wondered what exactly it says about “civilization” that we are increasingly expected to get along without public restrooms….
I...
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Apr.12.2011
Note: I'm also blogging this week as part of Cultural Policy 101: A Blog Salon sponsored by Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA. Join the conversation, and if you're planning to be in the Bay Area on Saturday, April 16th, register for my free workshop "Advocating for the Public Interest in...
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Feb.22.2011
Note to readers: based on response to my recent 3-part series on cultural funding, Life Implicates Art, I'm letting people know about my workshop on Reframing The Arts, a powerful generator of new ideas, fresh inspiration, and transformative action. Please contact me if you want to explore...
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Feb.15.2011
Note: This is the third in a rapid series addressing the current crisis in arts funding and how to head off future crises. Here's a combined link to all three. After this, I return to my normal rhythm of posting an essay once or twice a week.
My two previous essays focused first on the deeper...
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Feb.09.2011
My mailbox is being flooded with panicked messages from artists across the country. By executive order, the governor of Kansas has abolished the Kansas Arts Commission (KAC). The governor of Texas wants to defund that state's arts agency, as does the governor of South Carolina. Republicans want to...
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Dec.06.2010
The phrase "culture wars" has been popcorning to the surface of the cultural landscape lately, the renewal of a trope from the late eighties and early nineties. Many people are perceiving a re-emergence of the eighties/nineties culture wars, in which art—especially art depicting...
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Nov.24.2010
Yerra Sugarman has received a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.
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Jun.15.2010
Lee Gutkind has a few explanatory words on the subject.
Also check out the CSPAN files at the bottom of this post.
This may come as a surprise, but I don’t know who actually coined the term creative nonfiction. As far as I know, nobody knows, exactly. I have been using it since the 1970s,...
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Feb.21.2010
Be forewarned: if you don't feel like a rant today, save this for later. For the last few days I've had the strangest sensation. It's as if I've been struggling to emerge from some intensely sticky substance—a vat of rubber cement, perhaps, or a freshly spun spider web as it might appear to a...
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Nov.05.2009
President Obama has appointed 25 new members to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, a Reagan-era creation that combines representatives of federal cultural agencies (i.e., National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the U. S....
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