If the Mellon Foundation would start to look at the next-level budgets, they’ll find transformation is the purview of better-run ...

The starting point of my new book The Propaganda of Freedom is the core tenet of the cultural Cold War as prosecuted

Kevin Ring, the indefatigable editor of Beat Scene magazine, emailed me a few months ago to ask about the new reprint of "Cut Up or Shut Up" released by the German publisher Mokolo Print in a facsimile edition in English with a new cover design by Robert Schalinski and a modest intro by yours truly. Ever curious about all things Beat, Ring wanted to know the back story of the book's origin and development. Et voilà!

​Before I needed to earn a living from writing, I was a member of the avant-garde — fervent and full of high opinion. The other day I came across a typescript of "Synchronic Non-Causative Agent," an unpublished paper of mine written more than half a century ago. Reading it over, I got the bright idea of posting here despite its age.

Leah Lowe, Professor of Theatre and Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, talks about the ability for theatre to impact environmental activism.

We geezers who were college students in the late Sixties felt a rush of déjà vu at the sight of

Any adaptation needs to be epic. Few works of literature go so deep into the need for home and family as the John Steinbeck novel...

David Taylor and JH perform Schubert’s “Der Doppelganger” at the 2023 Brevard Music Festival Writing in The American Scholar, Sudip Bose

In this episode, we learn how leaders of a global network of arts and cultural districts regard their influence on community health and well-being....

Katie checks in with music director, supervisor, conductor, and pianist (Gutenberg!, The Who's Tommy, and KPOP on Broadway; Anne of Green Gables; Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Picnic at Hanging Rock), Amanda Morton.

My staff of thousands thinks of it as the Moby Dick of modernism.

I wrote a book looking at how different ways of moral and political theorizing drew different conclusions regarding whether the state should, or should not, subsidize...

Since 2001, the Jazz Journalists Association (over which I preside) has celebrated some 350 “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz,” as Jazz...

A. Robert Lee is such a prolific author in both his creative and academic books that I won’t try to characterize his writings other than to say they invariably illuminate life and literature with a wealth of scholarship, intelligence, and linguistic mastery. I will say, however, that his sense of humor is one aspect of his writings that I most treasure.

The Mellon Foundation almost got it right for nonprofit arts leadership in the 2020s. Seems obvious, and yet even the ...

In what would seem to be a new technique for explicating an exhibition that’s exasperatingly inexplicable, the NY Times gave

In 1952, when the late Gabe Pressman (dean of New York City's local TV press corps) was a young staff writer at the New York World-Telegram & The Sun, he came across a story tipped to him by a woman from Montreal who'd taken a cab ride in midtown Manhattan. This was the human-interest feature he wrote up. And this was the poem it generated, which I wrote many decades later.

Bill Banfield, Award-Winning Composer-in-Residence at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, shares the inspiring process of creating his new opera, Edmonia.

If you’ve ever heard Marian Anderson sing “Deep River,” you’ve heard an immortal concert spiritual by Harry Burleigh. His name won’t appear

The latest bill wasting resources right now is on the floor of the Senate and House. It will never pass. ...