“Opera is Dead! Symphonies are Dead!” Doomsaying in the Arts No Good for Business | Nonprofit Quarterly

“Opera is Dead! Symphonies are Dead!” Doomsaying in the Arts No Good for Business | Nonprofit Quarterly: "During and immediately after the recession, the newswires were abuzz with conflicts between classical music organizations and the unions that represented their musicians and other workers. Some of those conflicts played out in public, complete with standoffs, walk-outs, lockouts, and the organizing of stakeholders to support one side or another. In the midst of all of that, doomsayers were intoning the deaths of opera, of large symphonies, etc., but now such stories are fewer and further between."



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Many Large Arts Organizations Still in Recession - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Many Large Arts Organizations Still in Recession - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: NPQ has been noting what appears to be ongoing financial strife at a significant number of large arts organizations across the country—performing arts institutions and museums, primarily—and this report would tend to back up that impression.

Americans for the Arts’ 2013 Arts Index shows that the recovery has not brought much for the better to those organizations. In 2013, 44.2% of arts organizations had operating deficits, as compared to 36% in 2007 before the recession—an 8.2% difference. At the height of the recession in 2009, the number of groups with operating deficits was 45%, which makes the recovery, as measured here by deficits, only 0.8%. The Index reports that organizations with larger budgets were more likely to run a deficit than those with smaller budgets, and that there was no predictable pattern based on any specific arts discipline.

Arts and culture was fastest-growing philanthropic cause in 2012 - latimes.com

Arts and culture was fastest-growing philanthropic cause in 2012 - latimes.com: In terms of donations, arts and culture was Americans’ fastest-growing charitable cause in 2012, rising an estimated 7.8% to $14.44 billion, according to a leading annual research report on charitable giving.