MOST RECENT BLOG POSTS
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....
Where Did the Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Come From? Matt Taibbi, Maureen Dowd, and The New York Times have a lot to answer for....
Self-Marketing Artists shouldn't expect presenters do all their marketing...
My chat with Bill Ivey Exploring art, policy, and expressive life with the former NEA chairman....
Male = Mass Appeal When you're perceived as a niche even though you're the majority, good luck breaking into the mainstream....
What Happened To The Campaign Pledge on Arts Education? President Obama's Recent Education Speech Ranges Widely, Says Nothing About Arts Or Creativity...
Rocco Does Peoria; Congress Does a Number on the NEA Peoria cheers. Congress interferes---micromanaging program decisions that should be left to NEA's professional staff, panelists and National Council....
Circles of Influence Mapping the social links between the members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities....
If it isn't spreadable, it's dead Nina Simon, art museums, the Internet and Frank O'Hara...
Choreographer Karole Armitage uses Africans as props; Taiwanese dance and music troupe brings ancient debauchery to life...
Falling For The Fall for Dance Festival What Are Its Lessons? This Is About More Than Dance; It's About Audiences...
What if the 'new normal' is actually the original normal? There's reason to believe that the world we grew up in was the anomaly....
Rockin' with Rocco: More from Our WSJ Conversation What didn't get printed: Which programs might he jettison? Who's his favorite member of the National Council on the Arts?...
Coming Tomorrow: My WSJ Conversation with NEA's Rocco Landesman UPDATED You can read me now. I came away thinking he should watch his words, anticipating how they'd play in Peoria....
The Yankees' Cautionary Tale What the Bronx Bombers aren't doing to give back to their neighborhood, and what that can teach arts organizations....
Comedy Writing with a Side of Sex It's time to take down the "No Girls Allowed" sign on the writers' room door....
Signs that you've stayed too long at the party How can you tell when it's time to leave your current gig?...
Broken A landmark arts high school in San Francisco looks like something you'd see in a third world country...
Terry Riley on the Future of In C On the frustration of being known for just one seminal work...
The challenge of blending physical business with on-line The new Barnes & Noble eBook reader strategy may offer some hard lessons for the place-based arts....
How much is originality worth? We consider the case of Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's "Orbo Novo," at the Joyce this week....
Blogging the GIA The usually closed-circuit Grantmakers in the Arts conference welcomes a blogger into the fold....
Guilt If only I could be in 19 places at once...