L.A. Cultural Managers

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192034542011-12-13T19:56:56.959-08:00L.A. Cultural ManagersZach Behrensnoreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1134382307388888152005-12-12T02:07:00.000-08:002005-12-12T02:11:47.396-08:00Lincoln Heights Vs. Sony

The 'Urban' or 'Corporate Public Art" I reported last week has now hit the local TV news. You can watch a clip from CBS 2/KCAL 9.

Zach Behrensnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1134023161936707272005-12-07T22:25:00.000-08:002005-12-07T22:29:51.720-08:00James Hahn is Still Mayor (In Hiding)

UPDATE on yesterday's post about DCA's webpage. The confusing thing is that there are TWO homepages for DCA. There is the one I happened upon last night at http://culturela.org/index.html and the one at http://culturela.org/index.htm. Confused?Notice the last word in the URL. The latter says .htm (Villaraigosa) and the former is .html (Hahn). And with that, I'll let you conspiracy theorists

Zach Behrensnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1133933576496311732005-12-06T21:32:00.000-08:002005-12-06T21:32:56.506-08:00James Hahn is still Mayor?

The City of L.A.'s Cultural Affairs Department webpage has a mission statement attributed to James Hahn, who is credited as Mayor. Now that's a good way to increase your funding and resources under the Villaraigosa administration - just pretend he doesn't exist!

Zach Behrensnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1133855393085338982005-12-05T23:50:00.000-08:002005-12-05T23:49:53.086-08:00Corporate Public Art in L.A.

Curbed LA reports on the "Public Art" that is actually an advertisement for Sony's PSP. Then LAist chimes in too. Lots of links within those links, happy reading.

Zach Behrensnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1133855045074350722005-12-05T23:44:00.000-08:002005-12-05T23:44:37.136-08:00Warren Beatty - The Governor for Arts

"{Annette} Bening declined to speculate after her appearance Friday on what arts and education funding might be like under a Gov. Beatty," reports the San Luis Obispo Tribune back in October. On October 7th, Beatty's wife spoke at the State Capitol about Arts Education. Assemblyman Paul Koretz (WeHo, Studio City, Hollywood, BevHills) blogs about this: "Each day we don't devote funding for the

Zach Behrensnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1133178069560597892005-11-28T03:18:00.000-08:002005-11-28T03:43:08.086-08:0011-28-05 Briefs: Arts in L.A.

Like I said earlier, I'm still trying to break out of the L.A. Times mold. Please e-mail relevant articles from your local press.L.A. libraries have been improving with a "70% explosion in library usage over the last decade."The Geffen Playhouse re-opens tonight.The Los Angeles Times Family Fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation is focusing on Arts Education with Inner-City Arts. Tyler Green,

Zach Behrensnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1132877266819532352005-11-24T14:28:00.000-08:002005-11-24T16:07:46.843-08:00Vegas Vs. Los Angeles

Today, the L.A. Times displays an ominous portrait of Las Vegas juxtaposed against Los Angeles. It almost feels like the Times is sleeping with The Strip. After all, they have a blog dedicated to it. The article made me feel like L.A.'s economy is going to rumble and the city will be deserted. That means culture too: Los Angeles also lost out on at least two popular Broadway shows. This

Zach Behrensnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1132737844901193732005-11-23T01:07:00.000-08:002005-11-23T01:24:04.906-08:00Arts High School Passes

"LAUSD passed the grant agreement! The school moves forward…" as reported by Andre Pineda on his blog.

Zach Behrensnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1132658908480322042005-11-22T03:05:00.000-08:002005-11-22T03:30:09.210-08:00Briefs: Arts in L.A.

I'm going to get more diverse than just LAT, but it's a start:Having an arts campus downtown could be major. LAUSD will vote later today. I'll be following this story.I find myself and many friends in the same boat. We just don't go to movies anymore. Did Netflix kill the video store star?For those who work in Arts Education, this might be a good book to check out - The Norton Anthology of

Zach Behrensnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1132653756738574542005-11-22T01:55:00.000-08:002005-11-22T02:04:41.223-08:00Downtown Development pushes out Artists?

L.A. Times: Living Gets Loftier in Downtown L.A."'...when you are an artist, you need larger spaces to work in, at a reasonable rent. Now, the rents are going up and the spaces aren't that big.'"10 years from now, what will downtown's occupation demographics look like? What percent are artists now? What percent will they be tomorrow?Read Full Article

Zach Behrensnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19203454.post-1132651326953933672005-11-22T01:02:00.000-08:002005-11-22T01:22:06.960-08:00Why have a blog?

I've always wanted some center point for Los Angeles Cultural Managers to meet and share ideas and learn from others. Obviously, a blog run by just me is not the ideal forum. So in the meantime, I hope this blog will be a place to come to learn the latest news in our industry. That industry being "Cultural Managers from a Government Point-Of-View."Who knows how this will turn out. I'm going to

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