Here are a few stories I came across that struck me as interesting. I hope they are of some value to you.
First up, there is a link to story that updates the sidebar about internships covered in Chapter 7, “Human Resources and the Arts.” A recent court ruling favored Fox Searchlight Pictures in a lawsuit. There is a link in the article to the court ruling for those of you who want to get into the details of the legal decision.
Next, Marsha Lederman expands a bit on the recent announcement by the Vancouver Opera they were dropping their fall season and shifting to a spring schedule. While the news was greeted with “alarm,” Lederman explores the idea by looking at other opera companies that have had success with making a change in their season scheduling. What Vancouver Opera is doing can be related to topics covered in Chapter 4, “The Adaptive Arts Organization,” as well as Chapter 5, “Planning and the Arts.”
Last, there were some interesting ideas presented about arts funding and development in The Guardian’s Cultural Professionals blog site in June. The topics covered in this article can be found in Chapter 4, “The Adaptive Arts Organization,” Chapter 10, “Economics and Financial Management”, and Chapter 12, “Fundraising and Development.”
Enjoy and feel free to comment on these articles and related arts management topics. Cheers.
Bill Byrnes
‘Black Swan’ Interns Lawsuit Overturned By Appeals Court
by Dominic Patten, July 2, 2015, Deadline Hollywood
In a decision that Hollywood has been waiting for months to hear, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals today threw the Black Swan intern case on its head by vacating an earlier judgment in favor of two interns who worked on the Darren Aronofsky-directed film. The hearing on the appeal of District Judge William Paley III’s ruling of 2-years ago was held on January 30 this year.
http://deadline.com/2015/07/black-swan-interns-lawsuit-overturned-1201467302/
How festivals can save opera
By Marsha Lederman, The Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2015 9:44AM EDT
Last updated Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2015 12:43PM EDT
When Vancouver Opera made the stunning announcement that it would abandon its traditional fall-to-spring schedule and become an annual spring festival, there was much alarm in the city’s cultural circles.
The head of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey, was probably the most vocal and high-profile dissenter (among his tweets: “It is Orwellian to mask the news as progress”), but he was hardly the only one to balk.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/how-festivals-can-save-the-opera-company/article25071716/
The arts, creativity and finance: how will funding evolve?
Commentators from the worlds of investment and finance offer their two cents on arts funding and development
The Guardian, Cultural Professionals Network, blog post, June 18, 2015
List of commentators:
- Martin Smith, special adviser, Ingenious
- Alistair Hicks, art adviser and curator, Deutsche Bank
- Lex Deak, founder, Tendr
- Theresa Lindsay, head of marketing, Hitachi Capital UK plc
http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/2015/jun/18/arts-creativity-finance-funding-evolve?CMP=new_1194&CMP