A change of office space (saving about $400,000 annually), layoffs of 13 staff members (about one-third of the total), pay cuts for remaining employees, and other measures have reduced the upcoming fiscal year’s budget to $10.5 million, down from around $15 million in earlier years.
Tag: 07.07.14
Behind the Scenes With The Actors Defying Europe’s Last Dictatorship
Leonard Lopate talks with documentarian Madeleine Sackler about her most recent subject: Belarus Free Theatre, which has wowed the West with the same shows it creates and performs in secret back home, constantly under threat from Alexander Lukashenko’s neo-Soviet regime. (audio)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.07.14
On the State of Opera
(introducing a new ArtsJournal blog by former Seattle Opera general director Speight Jenkins)
AJBlog: OperaSleuth | Published 2014-07-07
Creative Placemaking: A Conversation
(introducing a three-week blogging event from National Arts Strategies)
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-07-07
Practicing extreme transparency: Why does your “About Us” section have to be so boring?
AJBlog: Speaker | Published 2014-07-07
Small Show At The Met Makes Me Wish…
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-06
In Praise of Spoilers (and a plug for Jacob’s Pillow)
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-07-07
Building Communities, Building the Field
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-07-08
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The Secret Of Brian Eno’s Genius: Cluelessness
Sasha Frere-Jones: “Eno is widely known for coining the term ‘ambient music,’ and he produced a clutch of critically revered albums in the nineteen-seventies and eighties – by the Talking Heads, David Bowie, and U2, among others – but if I had to choose his greatest contribution to popular music it would be the idea that musicians do their best work when they have no idea what they’re doing.”