Top Stories published by Fractured Atlas Blog in 2009

Who are the New Gatekeepers?

by Adam Huttler, Executive Director at Fractured Atlas

Douglas McLennan, editor of ArtsJournal and author of the blog Diacritical, wants to know how the internet is changing the role of middlemen in the arts:


We Earn our Grants, But That’s Not the Point

by Adam Huttler, Executive Director at Fractured Atlas

Once upon a time, non-profit organizations had two different kinds of revenue: “earned” and “unearned”. Earned revenue was the money from ticket sales, admissions, and…


Leaning into the Punch

by Adam Huttler, Executive Director at Fractured Atlas

Andrew Taylor nicely summarizes what lots of folks are talking about these days:

[T]he economy is delivering a gut punch to so many cultural organizations, and the people and…

In which Ian Moss bodyslams Greta van Susteren…

by Adam Huttler, Executive Director at Fractured Atlas

Today’s must-read blog post for fellow culturati is Ian Moss’s ruthless takedown of the would-be culture-warrior jackasses at Fox News. Teaser:


Op Ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer

by Adam Huttler, Executive Director at Fractured Atlas

I’ve got an Op Ed in yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer. Here’s the complete text:

America’s artists: Canaries in the health-care mine


The Meaning of Open

by Adam Huttler, Executive Director at Fractured Atlas

Not long ago I was on a panel at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference on new business models. Everyone on the panel was under the age of 40; nearly everyone in the audience was over 40. Amid a generally feisty…


Fractured Atlas on NPR’s Morning Edition

by Adam Huttler, Executive Director at Fractured Atlas

NPR ran a feature on Fractured Atlas on this morning’s Morning Edition. You can listen online if you’re interested. Thanks to Asian Pacific American Film Festival and Catalyst…


The Case for an Arts Czar

by Adam Huttler, Executive Director at Fractured Atlas

Isaac Butler makes a compelling, well-reasoned case for why President-elect Obama ought to create a cabinet-level position focused on the arts and cultural policy: