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The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina shut its doors last Thursday because of a severe lack of funding. The museum had operated continuously for the last 124 years, even through the Bosnian War in the early 1990s, but a longstanding and infuriating political quagmire have made keeping it ope
Opinion
Yesterday's US Presidential debate highlighted Republican candidate Mitt Romney's ridiculous plan to cut the budget of the much loved public television channel, PBS.
News
The economic argument is being used increasingly by arts institutions as they assert their role as economic engines, and New York's Metropolitan Museum is at the forefront of trumpeting its power in the realm of tourism.
Opinion
LOS ANGELES — A couple of years ago, new-media performance artist Marc Horowitz submitted his life to the audience. Dubbed "The Advice of Strangers," his Creative Time–commissioned performance was determined entirely by opinion polls and votes from the audience. Horowitz is at it again, as he turns
Opinion
Our "Mitt Romney Says He Would Ax Arts Funding If Elected" made it into Reddit's popular Politics subreddit and the 200+ comments are an interesting insight into the hive mind of a social news network that often ridicules contemporary art.
News
Politico has excerpts from an upcoming Mitt Romney interview in Fortune magazine, in which the Republican presidential candidate expounds on his plan to shrink the federal government and reduce spending. Depressingly, but not surprisingly, he targets arts funding.
Opinion
Yesterday's voter booth success definitely helps to ensure a more financially secure Detroit Institue of Arts, but you can be assured that its passage wasn't because of some innate sense of arts patronage among Michiganders but a victory based on educating voters about the facts.
News
The proposed millage to help keep the Detroit Institute of Arts afloat passed all three counties yesterday — woohoo!
News
This coming Tuesday, August 7, voters in the Metro Detroit area will be deciding not just the outcome of the usual political races, but also the future of the area's beloved art museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts. The DIA, which has been struggling financially for years, has proposed a 10-year mi
Interview
Following up on the essay I wrote about the ZERO1 Fellowship sponsored by Google, I wanted to speak with someone with a wider perspective on the shifts that have taken place in the past few decades in the arts, particularly shifts that relate to the interface between art and the marketplace. Martha
Art
The people behind the ZERO1 Fellowship got one thing right — “public policy is increasingly ill-equipped to manage a society with the kind of boundless creativity that technology like the Internet enables.” What they seem to get wrong is the notion that this is a grant program that serves to directl
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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley eliminated the entire budget of her state's Arts Commission in a late-night veto last week. The drastic cut involves two line vetoes out of 81 that Haley delivered on the 2012–13 state budget — one blocking the Arts Commission's $1.9 million in state funding (veto