Creative economy

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Dwaine Tinsley and the vagaries of history

The archduke and the pervert

Finding justice for Dwaine Tinsley: If I was not a writer with my peculiar interests; if I had not practiced workers’ compensation law; if that client had not become disgruntled. . . .
Bob Levin

Bob Levin

Articles 4 minute read
Blanka Zizka, founding artistic director of the Wilma Theater, shows how it's done.

The role of the theater critic

Diversity Onstage: A Critical Issue

Some critics don’t concern themselves with diversity or context, sticking to the subject before them. This is its own form of injustice as well as an abandonment of the critic’s role; to see exclusionary practices and not comment on them is to perpetuate them, but also, to pretend a show exists in a cultural vacuum does a disservice to the role of art.
Wendy Rosenfield

Wendy Rosenfield

Articles 5 minute read
Museum crowds like this are increasingly rare.

Survey of Public Participation in the Arts

Troubling trends in the arts

Even in the best of times, art has been the purview of the few, but now the few have turned into the very few. The NEA's Survey of Public Participation in the arts shows that support of the arts is declining.
Armen Pandola

Armen Pandola

Articles 4 minute read
Gillman (left) with successor Zminda: Running out of options?

Derek Gillman departs

The Barnes confronts a rock and a hard place

Derek Gillman’s sudden exit as director of the Barnes Foundation and his replacement by a member of the Barnes board marks a new chapter in the Foundation’s unfolding saga in Center City— and a sign that it’s already in serious financial straits.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 3 minute read
Hopper's 'East Wind': No value beyond cash value?

Pennsylvania Academy sells a Hopper

Keeping an Eakins, selling a Hopper, or: Watch your back, Mona Lisa

The Pennsylvania Academy's announced sale of East Wind Over Weehawken, one of the two Edward Hopper oil paintings in Philadelphia, raises this question: What responsibility do museums have to preserve core works in their collections, or even the idea of a core collection itself?
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 6 minute read
Bezos: The future will be different.

The Washington Post's future: One hint

Thinking outside the box about the future of the Post

The recent sale of the Washington Post to Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, has unleashed a flood of speculation among the punditry. His latest gambit with authors of fiction books suggests that this innovative tycoon may do something totally unexpected with his new media property.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
Gillman: Dubious assumptions.

The Barnes raises its rates

Get thee gone, peasants! The Barnes seeks more refined visitors

The Barnes Museum, short of cash and also apparently seeking a better class of visitor, has raised its admission rates just 11 months after it opened. But wasn't bringing the art of the Barnes collection to the common people at an affordable cost the whole point of moving it in the first place?
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 6 minute read

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Should Matisse's 'Le Bonheur de Vivre' (1906) be retitled 'Museum Directors Confronting Economics'?

Moving the Barnes: Now to pay the bills

Betting the house, and the art

As a new study suggests, the move of the Barnes Foundation was part of the nationwide rash of real estate and financial speculation during the Clinton-Bush era. Chicago's Art Institute gambled and lost heavily on its own expansion. That's a scary prospect for the new Parkway Barnes, whose projections contain no margin for error.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 3 minute read
Derek Gillman (above) 'cut through a vast entanglement of opinions and interests.'

On surviving the Barnes Foundation uproar

A survivor's saga: Growing up and moving on with the Barnes Collection

What was the Barnes Foundation experience really like for an immigrant art lover? How has it changed now that the collection has moved downtown? The founder of Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery recalls her frustrations with the old Barnes galleries and her exhilaration with the new.
Dilys Winegrad

Dilys Winegrad

Articles 9 minute read

Architecture: Five cents' worth

Yes you can (hire an architect)

Only 2% of American homes are architect-designed. But an innovative unemployed architect in Seattle may have found a way to make a living by servicing the other 98%. He could be the undoing of architecture's infamous star system.
Patrick D. Hazard

Patrick D. Hazard

Articles 2 minute read