We are all familiar with nonprofits operating under one roof to share on common overhead expenses. But an example from New Zealand adds a shared performance space to the mix.
Nonprofits should leverage the arts to confront social issues in their communities, says this Ohio foundation.
In its “Sounds of Home” season, the Oregon Symphony took a risk with the world premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s oratorio, which examines homelessness and housing insecurity.
Funding artistic practice as social commentary might be one of the most fascinating grantmaking perches in the country right now.
In Dallas, a new nonprofit comedy theater finds that improv can be therapeutic with a wide range of caregivers and long-term-care residents, including people with autism, Alzheimer’s, anxiety, and brain injuries.
The scene at Lincoln Center is beginning to feel like a bad soap opera—or, perhaps better said, a bad telenovela.
A new study looking at small arts groups in Oakland, California, has a decidedly local flavor, but its findings and recommendations offer food for thought to arts leaders and funders everywhere.
When city officials bombed the headquarters of the MOVE compound in 1985, few would have predicted an opera eventually would rise from the ashes. Opera Philadelphia plans to share this recent production with the city in a free (but partially crowdfunded) event this fall.
One theater critic argues that the paucity of new plays and musicals nominated in 2018 raises concerns about the feasibility of producing artistically challenging works that are not likely to become commercial blockbusters.
There is no doubt that fast CEO turnover telegraphs messages to the public. If you are a large cultural institution dependent in part on large gifts, that can make the path forward ever tougher.
