I have a new paper out, “The pursuit of equality through public funding for the arts”, in Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts, edited...
The other day I took a drive over to Toby Pond and looked in at the house where I'd spent six months during the Covid lockdown. My favorite room there was a little library. It had two steep book-lined walls and high windows that gave plenty of light for reading. With nothing better to do, I pulled down Lady Chatterly's Lover. Having read it many years ago, I had failed to appreciate it. This time it bowled me over. Here's a small excerpt. It offers a taste of one of the novel's major themes.
Monica Ellis, Founding Member of Imani Winds & Faculty at Manhattan School of Music, shares strategies for maintaining a portfolio career and the secrets to success for Imani Winds.
Hinano Price, Artistic Producer at the Ravinia Festival, shares the DEI impact of their Breaking Barriers festival and the dramatic growth of their classical audiences.
Three excerpts from the recently published edition of ‘The Letters of Gustave Flaubert,’ edited and translated by Francis Steegmullers, seem to me an apt commentary on our own time.
U.S. government statistics about arts and cultural organizations and industries can tell us quite a lot. We can learn about revenue, headcount, payroll, and...
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.
Barb Chaffer Authier, Marketing Director of The Ark, talks about their dual priorities of artists and audiences and creating the space where they meet.
A conversation with Adriana Pierce, a trailblazing dancer, choreographer, and director, who is reshaping the ballet world through her initiative, Queer the Ballet. Pierce...
About Brion Gysin Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassidy and Anne Murphy, Charles Bukowski, Herbert Huncke, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Milton Klonsky, Alice Notley, Bernard Kops, Neeli Cherkovski, Emmett Grogan and the Diggers, Martin Bax, the influence of Gertrude Stein, the death of Joan Volmer, and more ...
