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I'm in Maine at the moment, preparing for a week-long visit to Colby College to think about and talk about audiences and the arts. At conferences and other arts conversations, there's certainly a lot of talk about how audiences are...
Continue reading Everyone's a critic, or collector, or joiner, or....
I'll be in Waterville, Maine, most of next week, in residency (kinda) at Colby College, discussing issues of art, audience, and business with students, faculty, and cultural leaders. Should be an interesting visit, graciously hosted by the fabulous Lynne Conner,...
Continue reading My Maine events.
Social anthropologist and ''chief culture officer'' Grant McCracken has some great thoughts bubbling in his recent blog posts. He's wondering out loud about finding ways to capture and share the narratives and histories of the objects we wear, use, and...
Continue reading The cumulative value of stories.
I'm pleased to notice a new blogger among the ArtsJournal crew, James Undercofler, who recently joined the faculty at Drexel University's Arts Administration program after an illustrious career in symphonies, conservatories, and cultural nonprofits. His State of the Art blog...
Continue reading A useful question about nonprofit status.
I'll be blogging elsewhere on ArtsJournal this week, as part of the ''Expressive Life'' week-long blog discussion convened by Bill Ivey and featuring a ragtag bunch of big thinkers. Since his work as Chairman of the National Endowment for the...
Continue reading Rumination on ''expressive life''.
One of the more metaphorical moments of my two-performing-arts-conference visit to New York City this month is captured in this photo. I took it in the Times Center during the first day of the International Society for the Performing Arts...
Continue reading Broken.
The folks at the Fine Arts Fund in Cincinnati were clearly getting tired of the standard public conversation about arts and culture, particularly as it relates to the public responsibility to support the arts. So, they decided to look deeply,...
Continue reading The Arts Ripple Effect.
The rhetorical power of similes lives in their connection of dissimilar things (through 'like' or 'as'...remember your grade school grammar?). They infuse meaning and nuance into a conversation or communication by changing our frame of reference in intriguing and surprising...
Continue reading Artists, businesses, and other mythological beasts.
Sorry to all who keep coming back to the blog or checking your feeds. My New York trip was busier than expected, and the arrival home found many projects waiting eagerly. I'll work to get back to the blogging next...
Continue reading I'll be back eventually....
I'm traveling to New York tonight to participate in both the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference and the International Society for the Performing Arts conference. Both promise different perspectives on the state of the live performing arts. And both...
Continue reading Off to NYC.
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Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
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rock culture approximately
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Laura Collins-Hughes on arts, culture and coverage
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Richard Kessler on arts education
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Douglas McLennan's blog
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Dalouge Smith advocates for the Arts
Dalouge Smith advocates for the Arts
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Art from the American Outback
Art from the American Outback
Life's a Pitch
For immediate release: the arts are marketable
For immediate release: the arts are marketable
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No genre is the new genre
No genre is the new genre
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David Jays on theatre and dance
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Paul Levy measures the Angles
Paul Levy measures the Angles
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Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture
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John Rockwell on the arts
John Rockwell on the arts
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innovations and impediments in not-for-profit arts
innovations and impediments in not-for-profit arts
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Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude
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Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
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Tobi Tobias on dance et al...
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Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
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Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
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Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
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Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
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Martha Bayles on Film...
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Fresh ideas on building arts communities
Fresh ideas on building arts communities
The Future of Classical Music?
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Overflow
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
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Bruce Brubaker on all things Piano
Bruce Brubaker on all things Piano
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Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
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Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
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Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
The Unanswered Question
Joe Horowitz on music
Joe Horowitz on music
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Jerome Weeks on Books
Jerome Weeks on Books
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Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
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Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off
Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off
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Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
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Aesthetic Grounds
Public Art, Public Space
Public Art, Public Space
Another Bouncing Ball
Regina Hackett takes her Art To Go
Regina Hackett takes her Art To Go
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John Perreault's art diary
John Perreault's art diary
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Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog



