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Our Thanksgiving team of William S. Burroughs and Norman O. Mustill has been a happy pairing since 2012. It still is. So here they are again, sweetened by Heathcote Williams's words in a narration-cum-montage by Alan Cox. It's all so delish.

To anyone who has posted in the comments lately: my old email address has returned to dust, and I did not realize that notifications to me about comments were be sent to that old address. I have updated it, and will be better about approving and responding to your thoughts. Sorry!

(Indiana University Bloomington, Kelley School of Business (left) and O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (right)). At her blog Arts Analytics, Joanna Woronkowicz has written a post – reposted to a wide audience at artsjournal.com – trying to answer the two questions in the title of this post, with the heading (which I don’t fully understand) “Stop teaching arts administrators to run organizations.” Some background: in the...

I know, it’s tradition. Every year about this time, another carol and generally, you don’t read it. But this will ...

On November 22, Gunther Schuller would have been 100 years old. It was my pleasure to contribute an encomium to

After watching all six episodes of 'The American Revolution,' Ken Burns’s new, much-heralded documentary, I had mixed feelings.

Notions of ownership of creative work, ideas, and artistic identity are muddied when the technology rapidly outpaces attempts to define issues and even what's at stake.

Jordana Leigh, Vice-President of Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, shares the historic significance of their San Juan Hill Festival and the impact of their artist-centered initiatives.

There is a recent piece at Lawfare, by Simon Goldstein and Peter N. Salib, “Copyright should not protect artists from artificial intelligence.” The article has the strawman subtitle, “The purpose of intellectual property law is to incentivize the production of new ideas, not to function as a welfare scheme for artists.” I have a few problems with it, from their...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I_nQkfhVHIk&feature=oembed In Western classical music, the iconic composers disappeared sometime midway through the twentieth century, with Dmitri Shostakovich the

“How democratizing,” say A.I. experts. “How thrifty [cheap],” says my piggy bank. “How could you?” say actual artists. ...

Kaneza Schaal, Theater & Opera Artist & Director, talks about the extraordinary upcoming America at 250 season at Detroit Opera and its impact for audiences and community.

Bill Ivey died this past weekend; he was eighty-one years old. It came as a shock to us – just last week he was here in Bloomington meeting with our arts policy students, something he loved doing. He was a great friend to our program, generous with his time and advice to students and to younger faculty. He had...

The time will never be more right to create Pacifica, the seventh largest economy in the world, by disabusing ourselves ...

Tomoko Fujita, Coordinator of the Cali Pathways Project & Assistant Professor at the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, shares the Pathways structure they utilize to transform lives.