Americans for the Arts

The author examines censorship of the arts by both liberal and conservative groups.

The author discusses exhibitions by artists who have abandoned the privacy of their studios to create their work in public.

Summary of a panel discussion organized by ArtTable, Inc., a national organization for professional women in the visual arts, on the topic of the impact of government on the arts; money, legislation, censorship, held at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, October 2, 1989. Participants include Frederieke Taylor, Mary Schmidt Campbell, John Walsh, Roger Mandle, Mary Rose Oakar, Barbara Hoffman, Gregory Jenner, Alfonse D'Amato, Schuyler Chapin, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Charles Schumer, Ted Berger, Judith Tannenbaum, George Weissman, Wendy Luers, Kinshasha Conwill and Van Kirk Reeves.

Robert Wuthnow shows how music and art are revitalizing churches and religious life across the nation in this first-ever consideration of the relationship between religion and the arts.

When great figures of the art world clash head on in the courtroom, the result is drama that is both serious and comic. This book examines six modern art trials covering a wide range of legal and artistic considerations. The highly colorful personalities involved in these trials include figures of immense financial power, prominent art experts, and directly or indirectly, the artists themselves. The trials are not only discussed but also re-created with pertinent excerpts from the trial transcripts. (Book jacket).

We hope this book can begin to formulate an answer - not with a single, definitive response, but with a dialogue that begins to explore underlying issues and attempts to define them. In doing so, we are attempting to foster a deeper understanding of public art programs and of the diverse needs and interests of those most directly affected by them - the government, the public and the artist.

The author investigates the possibility of developing a painters' colony in Fort Worth, Texas and its implications for other cities

Art therapy can be beneficial to people of all ages, including adults who have emotional, cognitive, and /or physical disabilities. Our nation’s Veterans often return home with acute psychological or medical conditions that impair functioning, disrupt family relationships, and prevent reentry into the workforce. Others may develop chronic disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that require months or even years of counseling or rehabilitation. For Veterans who are receiving psychiatric care for PTSD and other emotional conditions, art therapy can be an effective form of

The folk and traditional arts field described in this study is enormously complex, encompassing the traditions of literally thousands of communities, but in another way it is quite simple to comprehend. Folk and traditional arts have the aura of authenticity about them: real art by real people who draw their inspiration, technique and aesthetics from traditions as old as the land, as old as home, as old as a family and community.

The author concludes with the following statement: I am going to conclude here by suggesting again that censorship is gendered; it is male-centered; the people who crafted the criminal code were men, the Judges who interpret it are men. That what feminists need is a radical reconstruction of their own civil libertarian values and affirmative action for women in the arts.

Historically artists produced for a limited market of wealthy patrons. The potential for exploitation of a mass market as we know it simply didn't exist. Ever growing number of modern patrons, however, tempt artists to produce ever growing number of works of arts - even with a major sacrifice in quality. These number further provide a market for marginal artists. The decision to produce more which is 'worth less' but which sells for higher and higher prices is both rational explainable in the light of economic analysis. (p. 38)

Review by Steve Dubin of the book The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility [New York, NY: Routledge, 1994, 258 p.].

How are cultural institutions using digital technologies to further their missions? What can we learn from talking to innovators doing this work? The Wyncote Foundation commissioned this report to help answer these questions.

Technology-based art has become increasingly of interest to both the art and the technology communities, as well as to the public at large. It has been adopted by art centers interested in technology and by research labs interested in art, places with different cultures and histories.

New support opportunities exist for tech-based art, such as commercializing invention and tapping a new generation of collectors, patrons and sponsors. But tech-based art is still art, which suffers from deep cultural inadequacies in the . Based on travel and discussion both inside and outside the

The attached power point is from the webinar, The MoMA Alzheimer's Project: Image, Expression, Alzheimer's: Making Art Accessible to People with Dementia presentation by the Society for Arts and Healthcare in January of 2009.  The webinar presentors were Amir Parsa and Laurel Humble from the Department of Education at the the Museum of Modern Art in New York.