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Arts Reports:
Design and Architecture in the City
New York City graduates twice as many students in design and architecture as any other U.S. city, but the city’s design schools are not only providing the talent pipeline for New York’s creative industries — they have become critical catalysts for innovation, entrepreneurship and economic growth, according to this report by the Center for an Urban Future.
2012-03-22
The Garment District
For this new report on the Garment District, the Municipal Art Society conducted case studies, gathered new data, interviewed dozens of experts, compiled other studies of the fashion industry, researched the history and explored a variety of policy recommendations. 2011-10-18
Key Arts Funding Down
Even before the recession hit full force, New York City's arts education funding in two important areas declined sharply, according to an analysis by the Center for Arts Education. Its report found that funding for hiring arts organizations to provide instruction dropped 31 percent over the past three school years, while spending for supplies, instruments and equipment declined by 68 percent. Middle schools -- often viewed as the most neglected sector of city public schools -- saw the sharpest decline, with money for equipment falling by 79 percent over the period studied.
2010-07-14
Arts Education and School Graduation Rates
A new report from the Center For Arts Education compares graduation rates to access to arts programs in New York City's high schools, finding that high schools with high graduation rates consistently offer students more substantial arts programming, while students at schools with the lowest graduation rates have the least access to arts education. The authors argue that their findings indicate that improved arts education is key to keeping young people in school. 2009-10-20
Art Groups' Infrastructure Spending
The $1.4 billion dollars spent on building by the city's cultural institutions from '03 to '05 resulted in the creation of 3,460 jobs, $560 million in wages, and $40.6 million in taxes paid to the city over the same period, according to a new report by the Alliance for the Arts. The report goes on to estimate that the institutions will spend $1.7 billion from '06 to '10 which the say would create 2,500 jobs, $670 million in wages and $48.5 million in taxes. 2009-01-15
Improving Street Life
The city's Department of Transportation last week published "World Class Streets," a report that assesses the public life on New York's streets. It found overcrowded sidewalks, a lack of public seating, and a number of hard to reach public places. The report also outlines the measures the city has already taken to address these issues. 2008-11-21
Global Cities Index
New York City is ranked as the most global city in an annual index created by Foreign Policy magazine, the consulting firm A.T. Kearney, and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. New York's financial markets, network of multinational corporations and the strength of its creative class gave the city its edge over the 59 other cities included in the index. 2008-11-06
Arts Education Falls Short
Most schools do not comply with a state requirement to teach the arts, according to a new report by Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum. According to the report, about 7 percent of elementary schools and 27 percent of middle schools offered music, visual arts, dance, and theater, which is required by the state. Less than half of the city’s middle schools offered one or two of those disciplines. The public advocate's office surveyed 100 randomly selected elementary schools and 50 random middle schools. 2008-06-18
Annual Arts in Schools Report
The Department of Education released the first "Annual Arts in Schools Report", which provides an analysis of arts education in New York City public schools. The report offers information on arts programs at each school as well as an overall assessment of where schools are excelling or failing to meet goals. The report found that in high schools, nearly half of students (46 percent) are exceeding graduation requirements in the arts. In elementary schools, 98 percent of schools are providing arts education to every student each year, with 62 percent providing instruction in two arts forms. However, only 4 percent of elementary schools are offering all four art forms to every grade annually, as required by the State. At the middle school level, more than 90 percent of schools offer at least one art form and 79 percent offer at least two; but only 29 percent of students received one semester’s instruction in two distinct arts disciplines, as the state requires. 2008-03-11
Finding Space a Challenge for Musicians
The high cost of rehearsal and performance spaces is threatening the health of New York City's music community, according to a new report by the non-profit NYC Performing Arts Spaces. In a survey, the group found that over half of respondents couldn't always find affordable spaces that fit their needs. To keep the city's live music scene healthy, the organization recommends creating subsidized spaces and residency programs funded by the government, foundations, and businesses. They additionally call for an expansion of a proposed tax credit for venues that pay musicians prevailing wages to cover larger venues. Musicians also need to organize in order to address their needs, the group says. 2008-01-24
Arts Bring In Billions To City
The results of a new study by the Alliance for the Arts show the art industry in New York City and State is a vital and integral part of the economy with an economic impact of $21.2 billion and generating more than 160,000 jobs. 2007-06-11
International Freedom Center's Plans For The Future
"The International Freedom Center: Content and Governance Report" outlines the future plans of the cultural institution, devised for the World Trade Center site -- a report ordered by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation after the Freedom Center was attacked by critics.
"The International Freedom Center will offer museum exhibits, educational programs, service and civic initiatives that will explore freedom as a constantly-evolving world movement in which America has played a leading role. Visitors from around the globe will come to understand that the story of freedom is a narrative of hope, and that September 11 is an essential element of this story..." Planned highlights include "The World And September 11" about international outpouring; "Documenting Freedom," a tribute to the "great documents of freedom" including the Declaration of Independence and the Magna Carta; "The Four Freedoms," honoring FDR;s "essential freedoms"; "In Freedom's Service," exhibits "highlighting the men and women who are leading struggles for freedom today and an interactive network where visitors will be able to volunteer their time and talents to help others in freedom's cause." 2005-09-23
Audience For The Arts
In 2004, 25.6 million people attended nonprofit cultural institutions (“museums, performances, zoos and botanical gardens”) in New York City, or more than the number who attended Broadway (commercial) theaters and all live commercial sporting events in the city combined, according to a report based on a survey of 138 non-profit cultural institutions. Commissioned by the Alliance for the Arts, the report, entitled, “NYC ARTS AUDIENCES: Attendance at NYC Cultural Venues,” also concluded that the 30 most heavily attended organizations accounted for about 85 percent of attendance. 2005-07-26
Preliminary Mayor's Management Report for Fiscal Year 2005
The Preliminary Mayor's Management Report for Fiscal Year 2005, according to City Hall, "provides an early update of how the City is performing four months into the fiscal year," offering "performance highlights and statistics for agencies, as well as data on inquiries received by the 311 Citizen Service Center."
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The Creative Engine - It Don't Mean a Thing if You Ain't Got That Swing...
This Center for an Urban Future report takes a neighborhood-by-neighborhood assessment of cultural development and its potential to stimulate economic growth. New York lags behind other cities in creating policies that would promote the cultural economies through the city, the report concludes. 2002-11-11
Culture Counts: Strategies for a More Vibrant Cultural Life for New York City
Taking as its premise that "art and culture are what make New York New York," this November, 2001 report by the New York Foundation for the Arts concludes that New York lacks a comprehensive cultural policy, that the Department of Cultural Affairrs requires "significant strengthening," and that barriers exist preventing many New Yorkers, no matter how enthusiastic, from participating fully in arts and culture. 2001-11-26
Who Pays For The Arts?
This 2001 study by the Alliance for the Arts of where non-profit arts groups get their income, found an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots in arts funding. The study also shows "a disturbing weakening in the diversity of income, which is generally considered essential to the health of nonprofits. In particular, the prediction that decreases in government funding would be replaced by corporate dollars was not correct. The study shows that corporations increased their gifts as government funding decreased, but shifted it strongly away from small organizations in favor of the larger institutions." 2001-07-17
