The Blogging World is Intense

I decided to move away from Atlanta Arts Blogs for a minute so here are some really great stories.

City Room
Donations save the day for the Harlem School of the Arts. It was closed down because of a $500,000 deficit and private donors, arts education advocates, and more stepped in to help out.

Perez Hilton
So Madonna's eldest daughter Lourdes may be enrolling in LaGuardia Performing Arts School. Supposedly from this post she got a special audition for herself to be shielded from the pressure. Money has privileges I guess.

Denver Westword
A big corporation Qwest goes into merger by Century Tel and this has some worried about the Denver arts organizations. I never thought about how mergers could affect the funding for certain arts organizations. Check out the link and tell me what you think.

The Moderate Voice:
From death comes birth, from destruction comes resurrection. This post is a response to the Political loss in Poland the writer forms a analogy of how a loss can turn into a possibility. The analogy comes from how the Atlanta Arts Alliance began.

Backstage
And we thought that cosmetic surgery was the hottest thing around. Welllll maybe not so much. The blogger from this site shares with us an article from the NY Times about how Hollywood is reconsidered selecting those who go through cosmetic surgeries.

The Mission Paradox
The theatre world is real serious about its marketing techniques these days. This post talks about the benefit of arts organizations to do advance sales for shows.

GrantmakersintheArts
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announces the latest round for the fiscal year 2010. he Arts Endowment will distribute $97,632,100 through 1,323 grants to nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide.

CommunityArtsNetwork
Sooo deep down I am a poet..lol. But seriously I write a little poetry here and there and I found this post about poems being posted all around the UK. The collection is called "Poemsfor...". They were collected by a UK charity called Hyphen-21. The poems are in different languages ranging from Albenian to Vietnamese.

ArtsAdmin:
CEOs of arts organization and their salaries. In times of economic turmoil, the blogger discusses those in chief officer positions who have takeno pay cuts. Is this right? What makes non profits different?

Arlene Goldbard:
Blogger Arlene Goldbard discusses the Local Jobs for America Act and how the mention of arts in the community is not mentioned. Goldbard feels as though the spirit of the Works Progress Administration is no longer here in America.

Offstageright:
It is often said how much of a burden it is to carry around emotional baggage throughout your life. how does that affect your experiences when going out? Especially when it comes to cultural events, does emotional baggage carry with it a cloud over your outing. In this blog post, the author explores the baggage the audience carries with them and what organizations can do to help lessen that baggage.