With her first solo show in more than 50 years, Eva Deutsch Costabel, a painter from Chelsea who is a Holocaust survivor and a World War II resistance fighter, is enjoying renewed interest in her artwork and her fascinating life story. NY1’s Arts reporter Stephanie Simon filed the following report.
In this effort, American Music Center (AMC) and American Composers Forum (ACF) jointly commissioned the Research Center for Arts and Culture (RCAC) at Teachers College Columbia University, which has a 25-year history of conducting artist-research. The motivation for this investigation was a need for accurate information on the new music ecology and composers in particular in the United States in order for organizations to serve them better.
New York City has always been a mecca for creative people, but with the average cost to buy an apartment $1 million, artists could well be an endangered species.
A recent study of 213 visual artists aged 62 and older found that the average income of these artists was $30,000 a year.
Last year the Research Center for Arts and Culture at Columbia University published a study of visual artists over age 62 in New York City. Most of them live on incomes under $30,000 and nearly half live in rent-stabilized apartments or subsidized housing.
The cost of living in New York keeps climbing. How is that affecting the city’s full-time artists? We look into whether staying in New York is worth the struggle. Also: James Lipton reveals the best – and worst – moments of “Inside the Actors Studio.” Jim Knipfel on his latest novel. Plus, how British and American individualism has shaped the modern world.
A new study of the city’s older artists reveals that in spite of their low incomes, they’re still happy. Just don’t mess with their rent-stabilized apartments. The report, from Teachers College, is based on 213 artists in the city. WNYC’s Kathleen Horan attended a reception in their honor.
New York City for decades has been a premier destination for painters, sculptors, dancers, and musicians from across the globe, but the city risks losing its artists if it does not provide subsidized housing and more exhibition and studio space to support the creative class, researchers warn.
Eventually, the dancing body wears out, which may be why capturing its image, playing around with it, and simulating it so fascinates us. The Monaco Dance Forum and the aDvANCE Project, with the support of the Princess Grace Foundation, also hosted an international conference on career transition for dancers. Co-chairs Philippe Braunschweig and Harvey Lichtenstein and aDvANCE’s board coordinated presentations relating in part to its just published, rich-in-statistics research report Making Changes: Facilitating the Transition of Dancers to Post-Performance Careers, which details how dancers in 11 countries are informed about life-after-dance possibilities; how they are, or can be, helped by dance companies and government programs; and more. The findings and reports by various speakers were illuminating, and discussions—inevitably involving dancers’ mind-sets, self-image, and training, as well as the discrepancy between their contributions to society and their low economic status—were absorbing, depressing, encouraging. Mindy Levine’s masterfully succinct Beyond Performance: Building a Better Future for Dancers and the Art of Dance can be downloaded from danceusa.org, and Making Changes from tc.columbus.edu/centers/rcac. … Read more.
