Chinese Arts Planners @ Kennedy Center Seminar

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In a changing economic environment, Chinese arts organizations turn to the Kennedy Center and Michael Kaiser for advice. Article in the NY Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/arts/design/18chiart.html

In a conference room at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the struggling new manager stood and asked a simple and pointed question of Michael M. Kaiser, the center's president: "How do you run a marketing department with no marketing budget?" A room full of her peers looked up eagerly for an answer.

As China races toward a more market-driven economy, it is building new theaters, concert halls and museums nearly as fast as it is erecting Western-style shopping malls, hotels and business complexes. But the government is also decentralizing control of the arts industry, cutting the full subsidies long provided to companies and performers.