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Karen Ewald talks about arts leadership during adversity

Karen Ewald, Executive Director of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & the Arts, talks about leadership during adversity including the Lahaina fires.

On the hidden economics of live theatre

Freakonomics Radio has a new three part series on the economic landscape facing live theatre. Part One is here, and part two is here,...

Bernstein, Balanchine, Ellington and the Waning of “Soft Power”

Kabalevsky contratulates Bernstein Today’s online Persuasion/The American Purpose runs an essay of mine building on the growing awareness that “soft power”

That Gaze Is a Gaze of Suspicion

And what does she suspect? Yes, you guessed it. Skulduggery.

Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Beware “A Little Knowledge”

Forcing data to reach a conclusion causes nonprofit arts organizations to issue pronouncements that just aren’t so. ...

What to do with the NEA? Make it Conservative?

In my last post I wrote about the Cato Institute’s Ryan Bourne’s call to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts. Here I will consider a...

Jeffrey Sposato shares his strategy behind building a music department for the City of Detroit

Jeffrey Sposato, Chair of Wayne State University’s Department of Music, shares his ethos of building a music department for the City of Detroit.

Anatomy of a Rebound: The Arts in the U.S. Economy

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What do to with the NEA? Pull the plug?

Two opinion pieces were published this week giving different conservative takes on what to do with the NEA. I’ll talk about Mark Bauerlein’s New York...

“An Urgent Priority” — R. I. P.: NEH (1965-2025) — A Postscript

Here’s a postscript to my obituary for the National Endowment of the Humanities, and for my own Music Unwound national

Advocacy for the Nonprofit Arts Sector is Currently Meaningless

Lost amid a string of inside-baseball phrases and ideologies, officials have little idea as to why they would possibly fund ...

Schubert and the Music of Exhaustion

The supreme string quartet, for me, has long been Schubert’s last, in G major — memorably performed last Friday night

R. I. P. : The National Endowment for the Humanities (1965-2005)

Since 2010 I have administered Music Unwound, a national consortium of orchestras and educational institutions funded by the National Endowment

Robert Taylor shares methods to inspire through diverse repertoire

Robert Taylor, Director of Bands and Professor of Conducting at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, shares his approach to diverse repertoire and inspiring individual voices in group ensembles.

Across North America, 29 “Jazz Heroes”

Twenty-five years ago the Jazz Journalists Association began to identify and celebrate activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz as members of an...

A Case for Support: Forklift Danceworks Uses the Art of Dance to Tell the Stories of Real, Essential Workers

Studs Terkel would have been proud of this remarkably impactful nonprofit arts organization. ...

Yuval Sharon talks about the role of the arts in a rapidly changing world

Yuval Sharon, Artistic Director of Detroit Opera, talks about their historic upcoming productions and the role of the arts within a rapidly changing society.

Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 6 — Don’t Talk About It; Do It.

Doing the right thing is always the right thing to do. It’s right there in the phrase. ...

Lou Chen talks about the important role of the arts in immigrant communities

Lou Chen, CEO of InTempo, talks about the important role of the arts in immigrant communities.

Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 5 — You Can’t Do It Alone

The work to deprogram cultish minds is dangerous. Get help. Lots of it. ...

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