Meredith Hull

Nicolas Cage Isn’t the Only One Who has to Sell his Castle

Posted by Meredith Hull on April 9, 2009 in Uncategorized

This term we’ve spent a lot of time talking about how small arts organizations, and even substantial “medium” sized ones that are slightly larger than our budget limitation for the project in this class, have had to cut their budgets.  Sometimes they’ve done it in innovative ways and sometimes they’ve tried to stave off even […]

Why won’t they publish the fight?

Posted by Meredith Hull on March 26, 2009 in Uncategorized

The Washington Post is reporting that popular music is regularly finding inspiration from economic hard times.  Now it’s not just Young Jeezy (whose September-released album titled “The Recession” long before it was officially called such by financiers), it’s also more mainstream artists like Neil Young whose lyrics look directly at the financial crisis.  […]

Dismal Status: Hard Won or Lacking an Argument?

Posted by Meredith Hull on March 5, 2009 in Uncategorized

 
            It’s a sad world when your own father cuts the stimulus funding that would allow you to keep your job as Senator Coburn did to his own daughter, Soprano Sarah Coburn.  Although even KP told us a story where one of her students had to cut out his own position in order […]

“And the Hook Brings You Back”: Technology for a Younger Generation in the Arts*

Posted by Meredith Hull on February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

In times of financial crisis, it has been a proven successful tactic to “reinvent the wheel.”  Just days after Black Monday in 1929, the
Museum of
Modern Art opened with an exhibit focused on “living artists.”  Instead of consistently looking backwards to “modern,” but nevertheless older French artists, the
Museum of
Modern Art chose to represent living American artists […]

The Ticket Tax Tango

Posted by Meredith Hull on February 5, 2009 in Uncategorized

The tango, in essence is a game of push and pull; so too is the current struggle over taxing event tickets in major American cities. New York City, perhaps the arts capitol of North America—at least so far as theatre goes—is considering […]

To Be Both Feared and Loved

Posted by Meredith Hull on January 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

        At the start of this summer the economy was already in shambles: gas prices had skyrocketed and stocks were dropping to new lows.  A certain trend in the world of philanthropy would seem to be new lows in giving.  However, research shows that a substantial number of foundations, 37% according to Suzanne Perry, […]