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(Gapers Block) — The Black Ensemble Theater presents its sixth annual Black Playwrights Festival. The festival is produced by the theater’s Black Playwrights Initiative (BPI), whose mission is to foster and unite Chicago’s African-American playwright community; in addition, the BPI provides workshops, classes and other resources for black writers. This year’s festival opens on Monday, Dec. 6, […]
(Crain’s) — New York City’s cultural capital budget for the next four years will be $750 million, said the city’s Culture Commissioner Kate Levin. Speaking at a Municipal Arts Society conference on Friday, Ms. Levin said the money will go to 320 projects at 190 different organizations. The projects will range from installing air conditioning […]
(Washington Post) –– Few things survive to see 100. Even fewer get reborn at that age. On Sunday, a century to the date that the Howard Theatre opened as the first of its kind to showcase the talents of African American artists, hundreds gathered to celebrate its history and look toward its future. “The Howard […]
(NYT) — In addition to her $877,000 compensation package, Ellen V. Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History, lives rent free in a $5 million East Side apartment that the museum bought when she came aboard. The Metropolitan Museum of Arthouses its director, Thomas P. Campbell, in a $4 million co-op that it owns across Fifth […]
(WSJ) — New York City’s recession-battered arts and social-service organizations are scrambling to find a way to make up for a loss of one of their biggest donors: Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The groups had hoped that when the billionaire mayor ended a grant program that doled out more than $175 million of his personal fortune […]
(Wall Street Journal) — New York City Center’s seats are getting supersized. As part of a renovation project that began in April, the performing-arts center, home to the annual “Fall for Dance” festival, is taking the lead of theaters across the country in expanding the width of its seats and increasing its leg room, or […]
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — The National Black Arts Festival’s schedule is lean this year, the result of fund-raising realities amid a recession and a new leader’s push to focus the annual gathering’s programming. Like last year’s edition, the upcoming festival will run five busy days, Wednesday through Sunday. Ambitious and diverse, the offerings range from […]
(Gazette) — The organizers of the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center recently took one step closer toward opening their own building with the creation of a Saturday artists’ market on land it owns on Rhode Island Avenue (Route 1) in North Brentwood. The market is being held on the third Saturday of […]
(NY Times) — Artistic success has never been Harlem Stage’s problem. Even before its Gatehouse theater became the first new performing arts space in Harlem in 20 years when it opened, in 2006, it had presented emerging artists, and seemingly everyone from Tito Puente to Abbey Lincoln. Its programs for school children were lauded as […]