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Everyone's a critic, or collector, or joiner, or...

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...

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February 8, 2010 6:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

My Maine events

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,...

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February 5, 2010 12:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

The cumulative value of stories

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...

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February 4, 2010 3:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (4) |

A useful question about nonprofit status

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...

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February 2, 2010 12:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) |

Rumination on ''expressive life''

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...

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January 25, 2010 12:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (6) |

Broken

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...

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January 22, 2010 8:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (5) |

The Arts Ripple Effect

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,...

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January 21, 2010 8:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (5) |

Artists, businesses, and other mythological beasts

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...

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January 20, 2010 8:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (9) |

I'll be back eventually...

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...

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January 15, 2010 8:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

Off to NYC

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...

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January 7, 2010 11:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) |

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