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When Necessity Feels Like Luxury Those of us who live in a place where the public library is not only open but open late have reason to marvel....
A Thousand Little Cuts: "The civil right is to an excellent education," she said. "It's not about having an art room." ..how can you have an 'excellent education' without the arts?...
Fairy Tales of Birmingham Paul Levy asks whether spinning gold from straw is a Ponzi scheme?...
The Dinner Party Just add arts industry insiders and stir...
Only in San Francisco... An unforgettable Bay Area moment involving a Safeway cart and a yoga mat...
Just before 8 A few minutes before 8 p.m., my heart beats faster. So many concerts start at this time -- after years in the business my body is trained!...
A Successful DC Arts-Centered Middle School to Get "Reformed" ...It's a good example of the how difficult it must be to be a school system leader, an educator, and a parent. What is coherent and successful one day, is incoherent the next, particularly in terms of policy....
Incest without the Morris Dancing Paul Levy has a scary experience at London's Coliseum...
Get Hooked Music that adheres to the brain as if playing through phantom earbuds on endless repeat....
Male = Mass Appeal When you're perceived as a niche even though you're the majority, good luck breaking into the mainstream....
Final USDOE "Race to the Top" Guidelines Released: Arts Education an Outlier ...So, what we have is an administration that issupportive of arts education but cannot find a way to fit it into major education policies....
Better Know a Meme Parsing the Auto-Tune trend trajectory (though admittedly the "how" does not illuminate the "why")...
What's in Your RSS Feed? Have you traded your blog aggregator for your TweetDeck?...
A Vital Partner: The United Federation of Teachers ...I have been to just a few conference on arts education over the years. What I have found is that the number of school teachers and administrators that attend is always very, very small. So, the thought of working directly...
Case Law Does it make sense to find and listen to all the previous recordings of a piece? Or can we dare not to listen to the recorded legacy of the past?...
And How Did Rocco Play In Peoria? The NEA Chairman Makes His First Whistle-Stop Visit, And Manages to Avoid (Mostly) Provocation...
You Cannot Make this Stuff Up: NYC Department of Ed and its Hypnotherapist How 'bout a choice: a hypnotherapy consultant or free arts curricula?? Which one would you choose?...
Circles of Influence Mapping the social links between the members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities....
That Bloomsbury Voice Paul Levy listens to Virginia Woolf, but yearns for the sound of Lytton Strachey's voice...
Choreographer Karole Armitage uses Africans as props; Taiwanese dance and music troupe brings ancient debauchery to life...
The Things I Hear About Arts Education ...People say the STRANGEST things!!!...
Mr. Brendel, thank you ... an unseen hand has kept its hold over a player and his listeners alike for decades ... Through a long and magnificent career, Mr. Brendel has brought us to an understanding, and a love...
Epic Advertising Are your community's cultural institutions up for a painfully honest and remarkably blunt marketing campaign?...
Pardon Our Dust Wanted: A few radical redecorators....
Ted Wiprud, NY Philharmonic Arts Education Advanceman: Abu Dahbi and Reflections Upon Returning Ho ...People talk about the world getting smaller, but for me it gets bigger. Yes, we've found much that is the same about kids and about learning, but at this point I'm thinking more about the seemingly bottomless levels of difference...