MS in Museum Leadership at Drexel University

education Posted: April 19, 2014 12:28 am

The Museum Leadership Program at Drexel University prepares future museum professionals to embrace the opportunities and challenges that museums face now and to anticipate those that will shape the future.

Oh, Canada! Banff loser is heading for country’s top orch
The Toronto Star reports that Jeff Melanson, the political gofer who ran the Banff Arts Centre with a ham fist, is to be the next... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
Harry Potter and the Disregarded Entity
What if you could form an organization that maintained a persistent and separate legal presence, protected its founders from liability, could receive tax-exempt contributions, but... [read more]
AJBlog: The Artful Manager | Published 2014-04-23
The piano you smear wins Design of the Year
Meet Roli’s Seaboard Grand, a rubber-key piano that can bend any note without a move of the wrist. It was proclaimed today Design of the... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
Doris Duke Performing Artists of jazz beyond jazz
Announced yesterday: the third annual Doris Duke Performing Artist and first ever Impact Awards, providing substantial financial honorarium to 13 “jazz” musicians whose works take seriously the... [read more]
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz | Published 2014-04-23
Snapshot: Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free
New York City Ballet dances Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free in 1986. The score is by Leonard Bernstein: (This is the... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-04-23
Almanac: George Meredith on caricature
"In fine, caricature is rough truth." George Meredith, The Egoist... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-04-23
Not one five-star Shostakovich, but two
Ploughing – some might say, plowing – through a towering pile of new Shostakovich releases, I was knocked sideways twice in a week by performances... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
How edgy is the Met? Depends who you ask
Our New York operavores, Elizabeth Frayer and Shawn E Milnes, went to the opening of Cenerentola. Both were knocked out by Diva Joyce in one of... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
A soprano makes her comeback from polio
This British Pathé clip, newly released from archives, shows the Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence making a heroic return to the concert stage in 1947 after... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
Here’s how Air Canada handles your instrument
‘Ever wonder what happens to your bags when you leave them at the aircraft door?’ This aircraft window video is going viral. Those of delicate... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
Dallas loses its opera director
Tis the season for departures. Jonathan Pell is stepping down as artistic director of Dallas Opera after 30 years in the job. He will stay... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
Vegas names a music director
Barely heard above the spinning of roulette wheels, the Las Vegas Philharmonic has been in conflict with its outgoing music director, David Itkin, who refused... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
Philharmonic concertmaster dies, aged 62
We regret to share sad news of Charles Sherba, concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic. A statement by the orchestra: ‘With great sadness, we announce... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
Today 250 years ago was Mozart’s big day
On April 23, 1764, the boy came to London, where he wrote his first symphony. (source: Deutsch, p. 32) ... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
Why Salzburg is losing its good Easter egg
Peter Alward is stepping down as head of the Easter Festival after saving it twice from demolition. On the first occasion in late 2009, he... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
Who Would You Pick To Play Picasso? Plus, Best And Worst Artists’ Films
We’re talking movies here. Most movies about art and artists leave a lot to be desired. We shall see how Picasso is treated in a... [read more]
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-04-23
Skunk Works: A Place for Innovation
What happens when you try to create something new in your organization? You might be lucky enough to be able to go off in a... [read more]
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-04-23
Little hawks
Polite. Agreeable. Well-behaved. These are not terms that should come to mind when you evoke the seamy edges of Jacobean drama, but they were the... [read more]
AJBlog: Performance Monkey | Published 2014-04-22
Wages solidarity demo at the Met
We’ve received the following from an inside source: This morning’s Cosi rehearsal with Levine turned into a display of union solidarity amongst all the orchestra,... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-22
Small-Frame Vignettes
Vicky Shick and colleagues premiere a new work. Vicky Shick (rear) and Marilyn Maywald in Shick’s Pathétique/Miniatures in Detail. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu The second week... [read more]
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-04-22
Just in: Frank Gehry to design Boulez tribute
CSO release: CHICAGO—The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) announces the participation of world-renowned architect, Frank Gehry, in its November 2014... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-22
Call for Stories
In advocating for community engagement work, one of the most important elements is identifying and sharing stories of examples of what works (and of projects... [read more]
AJBlog: Engaging Matters | Published 2014-04-22
As we said, Mariss goes off Dutch
When we foretold during the Concertgebouw’s Asian tour that Mariss Jansons would not renew his year-on-year rolling contract, the orch issued an angry denial. Today,... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-22
Visual Art and Piketty’s “Capital,” and David Mitchell
CULTURE and economics are connected, of course, in all kinds of ways, some simple, some complex. I often muse on the question of how rising... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-04-22
Institute for Advanced Study
Here’s an idea, which I owe to someone who runs an important classical music institution in the US. He’s not going to act on it... [read more]
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-04-22
Grand Façade: A Final Farewell to Former American Folk Art Museum Facility (with video)
Entrance of former American Folk Art Museum facilityPhoto by Lee Rosenbaum In yesterday’s unsparing NY Times appraisal of Glenn Lowry‘s 19-year reign as the Museum... [read more]
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-04-22
The kid is alright
With the Broadway season thundering to a close, The Wall Street Journal has given me an extra column this week... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-04-22
Lookback: how I became a critic
From 2004: A reader wrote to ask if I'd consider posting a list of books and other works of... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-04-22
Almanac: Macaulay on caricature
"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature." Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Machiavelli"... [read more]
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-04-22
A concert ‘to provide hospital beds for musicians’
From the Pathé archives, with super-rare footage of Ralph Vaughan Williams:... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-22
A masterpiece is born: filmed behind the scenes at Peter Grimes, June 1945
The original British Pathé newsreel report, retrieved and uploaded. Almost everyone is smoking backstage and Britten’s piano sounds distinctly untuned.... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-22
Van Cliburn: Unseen Soviet newsreel
This unused material of the first Tchaikovsky competition has emerged from the British Pathé archives.... [read more]
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-22
The gender gap in wages
About six weeks ago the Times reported on museum directors’ wages, finding something of a gender gap: Women run just a quarter of the biggest... [read more]
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-04-22
Toronto’s Good Idea: “Just Like Me”
Every now and then I come across an idea that’s worth singling out, and the Art Gallery of Ontario has one: it’s an exhibit of... [read more]
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-04-22

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