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A Critic's Place, Thumb and All
The New York Times - March 31, 2010
By A. O. Scott
Two weeks ago I went to Atlanta to give a talk at a conference devoted, in part, to "The Future of Criticism." The gist of my remarks was that there is one. This was a contrarian, and perhaps also somewhat self-serving, position to take. After all, the countervailing evidence is hard to avoid.
Variety, the leaky flagship of entertainment reporting, had recently let go of its senior film and theater reviewers, Todd McCarthy and David Rooney, further thinning the ranks of critics employed by daily and weekly newspapers and magazines of all kinds over the past few years. (Even so, it is at least possible to picture us forming ranks -- the surviving full-time classical music, dance and even in literary critics might have trouble filling out a bridge game.) For the full article, click here
Starving artists
The Philadelphia Inquirer - March 30, 2010
By Stephan Salisbury
Support - federal or state - for individuals has all but ended, an unspoken issue when the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts came to town.
When Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, breezed through town early this month ("to learn," as an endowment press official put it), he heard a great deal about "siloing."
The arts can't "be siloed," said Jane Golden, head of the city's Mural Arts Program. It's important "to eliminate all the silos" that constrain thinking about arts funding, said Jeremy Nowak, head of the Reinvestment Fund, the nonprofit development organization that was one of Landesman's hosts. For the full article, click here
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