News Daily
•  Meet the Genachowskis: an in-depth look at the new FCC—Ars Technica
•  White House Door Wide Open to Arts—Washington Post
•  FCC Pick Backs Broadband Stimulus, Opposes Fairness Doctrine—Wall Street Journal
•  With a Hint to Twitter, Washington Taps Into a Potent New Force in Diplomacy—New York Times
•  Study Finds Instruction in Art Lags in 8th Grade—New York Times
Showcase
Showcase
 The Creative Campus is the signature program of the Curb Center and seeks to place creativity at the center of campus life.

The Curb Center is pleased to announce the selection of the 2009-2010 Mike Curb Leadership Scholars, who will arrive on the Vanderbilt Campus in the fall of 2009.
  
Click here to read about the 2009-2010 Mike Curb Leadership Scholars
Curb Program in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership brochure
Noteworthy
Noteworthy
  •  Ovation TV debuts "Arts in America - Web Series," stemming from the panel discussion on Bill's book, Arts Inc., recently held at the CORE club in New York City.  The web series provides a forum for ongoing discussion of the issues raised in the book.  Veteran blogger Rob Bettman will lead the conversation.  Click here for an introduction to the series.  Click here for Webisode One:  How do you define “the arts”?:  Robert Lynch and Agnes Gund
  •  Bill Ivey Talks About Obama and the Arts and Whether America Should Have a Secretary of Culture - Doug McClennan interviews Bill Ivey.  Click here to watch the YouTube video of the interview.
  
In Print
In Print
Arts, Inc:  How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights by Bill Ivey

A profoundly important diagnosis by perhaps America's best-qualified critic of the harm to our culture caused by overregulation and inadequate support. Ivey has given us a rich and beautifully written warning about the culture we're losing, and a powerful and historically compelling image of a culture that could be. — Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School.   Read more.

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