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A Strategic Plan for Your Flailing Nonprofit Arts Organization Is Just a Waste of Time

As Kate Larsen so brilliantly puts it, a strategic planning session is not the same thing as a strategic plan ...

Re-Encountering George Kennan — and “From the River to the Sea!”

I felt impelled to write the long essay that follows after discovering Frank Costigliola’s acclaimed new biography of George Kennan.

Monica Ellis shares strategies for a successful portfolio career

Monica Ellis, Founding Member of Imani Winds & Faculty at Manhattan School of Music, shares strategies for maintaining a portfolio career and the secrets to success for Imani Winds.

From Village Voice to TikTok: Rethinking How Audiences Discover Art

From magazine listings to the For You page, how we discover art has changed—but not as much as we think. Artists should see social media as a tool for accomplishing their goals, not the enemy.

Arts Organizations: Laughing, Yelling, Insanity, and You

Nonprofit arts organizations are dropping like flies. Got a problem with that? One ...

Anthony Trionfo talks about his commitment to the next generation through a focus on inclusion

Anthony Trionfo, Founder of Umoja Flute Institute & Member of Aspen’s IDEA Committee, shares his commitment to transforming the next generation through a focus on inclusion.

UNESCO and the United States

O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us… In the Washington Post, Charles Djou, who was a Biden administration official and briefly held an Hawaiian congressional...

For Nonprofit Arts Organizations, It’s August and the Fan Is Clogged with S**t

Big protests about the war and immigration, but the arts? Just a little Monday night shindig. Before that, a subtle ...

What is Free Speech? A Review

“Freedom of speech” is never an absolute. Even in a country where people have a great amount of freedom of speech, such as the...

Na’Zir McFadden talks about the role of an orchestra in community

Na’Zir McFadden, Assistant Conductor & Community Ambassador of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, talks about the role of the orchestra in community and the importance of mentorship.

Remembering Leopold Stokowski

Last Friday’s “Wall Street Journal” carried my review of a new memoir by Nancy Shear: “I Knew the Man Who Knew Brahms.”

Brian Prechtl shares the balance of performing and administrating in the arts

Brian Prechtl, Director of Education and Community Engagement for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, shares the balance of both performing and administrating along with their breadth of impact on community.

SUMMER RERUN: Advocacy for the Nonprofit Arts Sector is Currently Meaningless

Lost amid a string of inside-baseball phrases and ideologies, officials have little idea as to why they would possibly fund ...

New Release Adds PoemsWhat AI Has to Say About Shadow Words

According to AI: "Jan Herman was inspired to create these deformed sonnets by a desire to challenge conventional notions of poetry and to express himself under what he saw as 'duress and necessity.' Their uniqueness lies in the evocative and sometimes elusive content where the poems become reflections on selfhood, transience, and perception, This approach allows him to use the sonnet label while subverting expectations, making his work feel both familiar and radically new."

Alfred Brendel (1931-2025)

In the wake of the death of the pianist Alfred Brendel on June 16, I notice a sharp uptick in

China Wilson shares the most important DEI practices to impact students

China Wilson, Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, shares key best practices in DEI for impacting students.

Lauding Lauder: The Consummate Museum Benefactor Dies at 92

I’ve been unpardonably remiss about this (having been uncharacteristically off-blog for two months). But I must belatedly add my voice

The search for the very nice arts philanthropist

Last month, the Scottish government came up with a one-time grant of £300,000 to cover the Edinburgh International Book Festival, after pressure from environmental protestors caused...

Rediscovering Harry Burleigh — via Sidney Outlaw

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7YH7ctxiUac&feature=oembed When my wife and I heard Sidney Outlaw sing Harry Burleigh’s “Till I Wake” a few years ago,

SUMMER RERUN: Art Doesn’t Need to Be Served. People Do.

From 2024: The Mellon Foundation almost got it right for nonprofit arts leadership in the 2020s. ...

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