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It’s time to Replace the “Broken Window” with a “Scaffold Up.”
Amy Sanamman A year ago, New York City voted in its first new mayor in 12 years. The city council election resulted in new members in almost half of the 51 seat council. It was an exciting time for the...
View ArticleA Sea Change in the Volunteer Landscape
Adapting to a shift in the volunteer landscape is one of the exciting challenges that the Arts & Business Council of New York (ABC/NY) and many arts organizations now face. As a new team running...
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The Art of Balance: Recapping the Crain’s New York Arts & Culture Breakfast
Caleb Way Last Wednesday morning, New York City’s newly instated cultural commissioner, Tom Finkelpearl, greeted representatives from numerous local institutions for the Crain’s Arts & Culture...
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Wearing MoMA, By UNIQLO
Caleb Way As the Arts & Business Council of New York Program Coordinator for Americans for the Arts, I’m always on the lookout for great examples of partnerships between the arts and business. If...
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Intro to the Arts Programs Enhanced by Vans Custom Culture Grants
Jeff Poulin Earlier this summer, you may have read Kristen Engerbretsen’s, Americans for the Arts’ Education Program Manager, blog post about the final event of the 2013-14 Vans Custom Culture program...
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Performing the Archive and Building Community In Real Time (Part I: The Story)
Andrew Horwitz I have come to view human history as an epic tragedy of inadequate knowledge management. While I am dubious that we will ever finally solve the problem of knowledge lost across...
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Arts Brookfield Presents an Egg-cellent Performance
Nicole Glotzer As part of Americans for the Arts’ Internship Program, my fellow interns and staff recently took an office field trip to see a unique public dance performance entitled Yolk by dance...
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What Jazz Can Teach Business About Innovation
Greg Satell In a recent episode of Boardwalk Empire, Chalky White’s wife was angry because he took his son to play with Jazz musicians at his nightclub. She feared that it would upset the order of his...
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Partnering with Eileen Fisher (from The pARTnership Movement)
Katy Rubin Today I’m writing from my desk in Brooklyn, as the founder and artistic director of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC (TONYC). TONYC, 2+ years old and growing, partners with local communities...
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Breaking Barriers and Embracing Change: A History of the Apollo Theater
Aryana Anderson Before the Apollo Theater opened for its inaugural performance on January 26 1934, Harlem’s 125th street was a shopping center for residents in the mostly white upper-middle class...
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Candidates Weighing in on Arts Education
Doug Israel After years of school budget cuts due to the economic downturn, and a decade of No Child Left Behind-inspired education policies, there is a movement afoot in districts across the country...
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Ahead, Together: Corporate Philanthropy and the Arts (from The pARTnership...
Jordan Lohf The powerful impact the arts can have on social change and business objectives was showcased for corporate giving officers from around the country last week thanks to a deepening...
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Best Practices in Public Art Project Selection
Lester Burg One of our most enjoyable tasks as public art administrators is telling an artist they have been chosen for a commission. Getting to that point is a long process, which differs across the...
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The (In)Efficiencies of Scale (Part Two)
Michael Hickey (Editor’s Note: Michael continues his response to our Animating Democracy Blog Salon from December 2012 in this post. It was originally published on his Man-About-Town.org site January...
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How the Arts Lead Me to a New Career (from The pARTnership Movement)
Marla Sincavage About 18 months ago, my boss informed me that they had decided to shut down the New York City branch of my division and, as the saying goes, “my position was being eliminated.” I saw...
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Part of the Value of Culture (from The pARTnership Movement)
Will Maitland Weiss Last Friday, a couple of Arts & Business Council of New York staff members attended a City Council hearing on how cultural organizations support New York City businesses, to...
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Mentorship and Funding: Partnering through the Arts (from The pARTnership...
Stephanie Dockery At her 1985 retirement, after 20 years as founding director of the Arts & Business Council (ABC), Sybil Simon chose as her legacy a program which helped diversify the nonprofit...
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Real-Life Common Core Language Arts Connections to Arts Education
Paul King The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) has embraced the Common Core Standards with a fervor that demonstrates a comprehensive commitment to this work. All of our 1,700-plus...
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Who’s Number One? (from The pARTnership Movement)
Will Maitland Weiss The sweet sixteen. The elite eight. The final four. But what does it really come down to…Who’s number ONE?!?! In the case of The Economist’s Hot Spots: Benchmarking Global City...
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A “New Kind of Future” for the Bronx
Nancy Biberman Last month, The New York Times documented an incredible group of local artists coming together to turn a rundown (but not forgotten) Bronx building into a work of art. The canvas was the...
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