City & State’s Post

This is a suitably erudite though unsuitably non-comedic piece about Woody Allen and his New York. I quote : 'In Woody Allen movies, Manhattan-based high culture contributes decisively to the drama of big city life, as all the spats and love affairs play out against the backdrop of art museums and galleries, bookstores, the Hayden Planetarium, Central Park, celebrated works of architecture and infrastructure, and concert halls. Allen is one of the last of a dying breed: an intellectual without a college education. At his parent’s urging, he gave it a try at NYU and City College, but even to describe him as a dropout would overstate his level of engagement. Who needed college when you had Manhattan? This effect was intended by the city’s Gilded Age ruling class when they founded, as public benefits, institutions such as Carnegie Hall, Grand Central Terminal, and the New York Public Library. One of the most convincing cases New York can make that it contributes to middle-class flourishing is based on the accessibility of high culture'. 'We don’t turn to Woody Allen for policy prescriptions, though. He never had much advice to offer about how to save the city. But he did have much to say about why it was worth saving in the first place'. I add: the paragraph spaces - and paucity of them - come from the original. Clearly if this had been my work I wouldn't have been so promiscuous with blank space. #cities #culture #woodyallen #nyc #brooklyn Manhattan Institute

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Check out this great interview with Andaleeb Banta, who discusses some of the highlights you'll see in Making Her Mark!

What if we focused on media making of all kinds (from bits to bricks) that helped increase our experience of kinship with each other... instead of all this libertarian tech that fuels more and more isolation and loneliness? Let's connect.

There’s one point made in this article that really hits home: “More and more people leave our presentations, productions, and concerts with an incomplete understanding of the work(s) of art they saw. They might have missed some of the dialogue, never understood the relationships between characters, never had the benefit of knowing the work’s historical significance, or never figured out what motivated the director’s interpretation of the work. They didn’t arrive early enough for the pre-performance talk or have time to read the program notes. So, they went home having had a partially impactful experience and probably a lot of unanswered questions. Are our programs only for those with insider knowledge who can “figure it out” on their own? Any hope of sustaining and diversifying public support for arts programming, in the long run, will require us to support audiences in entirely new ways.” Last weekend I saw the "The President's Own" United States Marine Band whose concert program listed the pieces being performed without program notes. But they made up for this by introducing and discussing each piece before being performed. For each piece they explained its composer, history, meaning, and the story it aims to tell. As someone who has studied these types of works, it still left me feeling more complete at the end of the performance. Imagine the impacts it had for those in the audience who aren’t as familiar. This is the #connection piece. This is how we start to break down the elitist barriers that come with the orchestra world, especially when performing the traditional masterworks. #audiencedevelopment #audienceengagement #audiencesupport

Here's my latest feature on Oregon State WBB star Talia von Oelhoffen. We talked about her decorated career, what makes this team special and her thoughts on conference realignment: "I just don't think that the priorities were necessarily where they should be in making those decisions.” Check it out! #tvnews #sportsjournalism #sportsmedia

#economics #sustainability #unitedstates #nobelprizesummit Paul Krugman, The New York Times columnist, who is a Distinguished Scholar, at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center tweets on X that New York City endures against all odds. Krugman has come a long way from critiquing Ronald Reagan brilliantly in his popular 1995 book Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations (Norton Paperback) [amazon] appears to be now defending socio-economic inequality instead of critiquing it, given that Gotham is now Bill Clinton’s Democrats and no longer Reagan’s Republicans. No wonder former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California, pushed out by Donald Trump, made it his first priority to speak to the Economic Club of New York. The color of money is now the American, not British, Blue from Red. New York lived and died as many times as the business cycle it engenders. Now it is dying everywhere a slow death or living a lethargic life of complacency, whichever way you want to see it, from mid-town to downtown Manhattan. I see opportunity, however, in all the boroughs disregarded by both Donald Trump who made it in Manhattan from Brooklyn and Bill Clinton from Hope, Arkansas. NYC needs to be seriously cleaned up, with both parties having made a mess of it, if you know what I mean. It can once again set the trend for America’s future: ghettoization as NYC always has been or integration at a low Gini index across all the five boroughs. Success in America is not about coming from The Bronx and making it big in Manhattan. Once you make it to Manhattan, what did you do for Bronx where you came from? America is Sermon on the Mount of Ellis Island. Not the Romans and the Sanhedrin. For a yard stick, what is a good Gini to shoot for? In U.S. government, total compensation of the highest income earner is about 10 times the lowest including @POTUS, except for all the exorbitant attendant costs of the imperial presidency. What should it then be in the markets? Not 3000? No wonder America has become expensive for Ellis Island.

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Want an investment that brings consistently growing returns? Not only are the Arts essential to the development of our national identity and culture, but $$valuable$$ to the US economy and exports. EVERY dollar invested in the Arts, is returned to the US economy tenfold. AND, the surplus returns from the Arts are growing faster than the US economy.

On this episode of Arts Engines, Aaron Dworkin speaks with Donna Collins, Executive Director of the Ohio Arts Council and Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), who reflects on arts advocacy and its profound impact on communities. 🔍 Donna prompts us to question the efficacy of existing formulas and emphasizes the need for meaningful engagement with communities that have been marginalized. Additionally, she highlights the importance of listening to successful practitioners, organizations, and the communities they serve. 💡 Donna champions collaboration as the cornerstone of effective leadership, stressing the power of growing our support networks to navigate challenges and celebrate victories together. 🌟 It's crucial to recognize that advocating for the arts isn't a binary choice, a symptom of White Supremacy Culture, but an essential aspect of our shared humanity. Donna emphasizes the value of cross-sector collaboration, from Arts and Health to Arts and Housing, to foster resilience and unity. ⏳ In challenging times, Donna introduces the "80-10-10" rule, focusing 80% on the mission, 10% on community engagement, and 10% on professional development—a balanced approach for navigating uncertainty while staying true to our goals. However, what would it look like if we gave more effort to our communities and ourselves? #Arts #Culture #ArtsCouncil #Board #Agency #Advocacy #Community #Policy #Ohio #ProfessionalDevelopment #Human #Collaboration