Opinion
Carolina arts need your investment
Arts groups don’t just need institutional grants. They need individual gifts, attendance, and volunteers. Don’t be shy. Jump in with both feet.
Opinion
Raleigh’s iconic NC Theatre pushed to bankruptcy by COVID, competition
In December 2023, my family attended the North Carolina Theatre’s production of Elf. It was another thrilling night back with old friends in my nearly 40-year association with North Carolina’s largest professional theatre company — one of the few in America primarily dedicated to producing Broadway-caliber musicals with a world class youth-training organization. The vision...
Opinion
Most Arts Funding Is Private
The overwhelmingly private nature of the arts in America clearly distinguishes our society from much of the rest of the developed world.
Opinion
The Wrong Case for Arts Funding
I don’t think those who enjoy listening to country music or hip hop should be forced to subsidize the creation, performance, or broadcast of chamber music or show tunes.
Opinion
Setting Borders On Arts Funding
Max Borders has written such an interesting and well-reasoned study of the School of the Arts that I refuse to tell you anything more about it.
Opinion
Not The Art Of The Deal
If the “economic argument” is truly what they’re focusing on, arts groups deserve to be de-funded as a clear and present danger to common sense.
Opinion
Flashback: Art for Art’s Sake
Sometimes, when faced with an absurd public-policy argument, you should just shake your head and spare the arguer any further embarrassment.
Opinion
On the Arts Museum Flap
The director of the North Carolina Museum of Art is paid for more than his state salary of about $100,000, thanks to a private foundation. This is a problem, but the solution is not to pay him less.
News
Greensboro Has Private Art Revival
GREENSBORO — North Carolina was recently home to an exhibition of more than 80 works of art by Chinese watercolor artist Guan Weixing. Guan’s work has been described as “inconceivable” and “watercolor magic.” His work has won several international awards and a book of his paintings, “Memories of Peking: South Side Stories,” has won several international illustration awards. Where did this exhibition by one of the world’s foremost watercolor artists take place? The North Carolina Museum of Art? A prestigious private museum? Actually, it took place in Greensboro’s ever-evolving arts district.
News
Scandal Uncovered at School of Arts
RALEIGH — High-level administrators at the North Carolina School of the Arts engaged in “willful, deliberate, and intentional” violations of N.C. law in what State Auditor Ralph Campbell described Tuesday as “similar to the debacle at Enron.” Campbell said the findings at the NCSA were as serious as any his office had uncovered previously and recommended that the University of North Carolina review whether the NCSA ought to continue exercising budget flexibility and that the UNC system have all UNC institutions report on the activities, including revenues and expenditures, of all their foundations and related organizations.
