arts-funding
For the foreseeable, capitalist American future, full and equitable access to live, professional performing arts will depend on subsidy.
Is truth and beauty served when the arts just take the money from the big banks and run?
Let me get this straight. President and CEO of the Citi Performing Arts Center (CPAC), Josiah Spaulding Jr., presides over five straight years of budget deficits and arts programming cuts, including slashing the budget of this summer’s Shakespeare on the Common production, and he earns a $1.265 million bonus. This is shameful, especially given that…

Arts Commentary: Boffo Box Office — Cultural Bust
Hedge-fund logic, executive excess, celebrity casting, and algorithmic ticket prices are remaking nonprofit arts groups and Broadway alike
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