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Today's headline at WIRED is a reminder of "Billboard Proposal #2," which was posted seven months ago. And now that Elon Musk's chainsaw has evolved, this is not so much an I-told-you-so as confirmation of his so-far inescapable assault. Let us also not forget "Billboard Proposal #1."

Unless, of course, they muck it up by asking for money. (Image by ...

Delta David Gier conducts the Creekside Singers and members of the South Dakota Symphony in Derek Bermel’s “Lakota Refrains” [Photo

Which is remarkable, except that neither did many writers of the highest esteem. Was he considered for it? You'd certainly think so, given his record of achievement.

Curtis Stewart, Composer-in-Residence of the Sphinx Virtuosi & Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, shares the complexity of his artistic process of creation.

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

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.