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“A Tale of Two Cities” — Music and Race in Boston and New York

My latest installment of “More than Music” on NPR explores racial attitudes in Boston and New York at the turn of the

Visions at Midnight: Pages from a Notebook

"At first glance these collages look like they are digitally produced images owing their provenance to artificial intelligence or photoshop manipulation. But they are actual paper collages, cut-and-paste handwork in the truest sense. What sets them apart is that they are two images, one message, all at once." Mark Terrill

The Power of Strangers at Art

On a Sunday in May, a friend and I planned to try for rush tickets to see Hugh Jackman at the Minetta Lane Theater...

Cultural Diplomacy in South Africa Continued: the University of Michigan Concert Orchestra Goes to Soweto

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uTnhLU56Q1w&feature=oembed The Soweto audience erupts. Video by Mathew Pimental Among my most telling experiences of South Africa, when

Kevin Haden shares the importance of empowering young people to develop their own creative vision

Kevin Haden, Senior Associate Dean of Strategic Engagement and Institutional Excellence at the Curtis Institute of Music, shares the importance of giving young people the space to define their own creative vision.

American Cultural Diplomacy in South Africa Right Now, Courtesy of the University of Michigan

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QiQLyMtBErU&feature=oembed Video by Mathew Pimental At the precise moment that US President Donald Trump was accusing South African

Michelle Wu

My introduction of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu at New England Conservatory’s Commencement ceremony on Sunday May 18, 2025. She received an honorary degree. Michelle Wu...

No. Just No.

Why do we continue to accept bad advocacy for the nonprofit arts sector? ...

Reuben Kebede shares the importance of diverse repertoire

Reuben Kebede, 1st Violinist of the Ivalas Quartet (Caramoor’s String Quartet-in-Residence 22-23) shares the importance of diverse repertoire and the driving vision of the ensemble.

I’m Not Angry. I’m Batman.

I’m just trying to help save the nonprofit arts industry from its own worst impulses. Where’s my utility belt, Alfred?! ...

On the frontiers of AI

Prelude, from The Onion: Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport Now then. A few days ago, my son googled “Franz Kafka Airport” and...

Jyoti Gupta shares strategies to develop arts leaders

Jyoti Gupta, Faculty Fellow at the Curb Center of Vanderbilt Univ, shares the unique community of practice they have developed for Nashville’s arts leaders.

What Ails Today’s Metropolitan Opera? — It’s in the Pit

The current issue of the “New York Review of Books” carries my review of the Metropolitan Opera’s current “Aida” – a new

What Was That? Your Arts Organization Needs Funding? Get In Line.

Sorry, it was hard to hear you above the din of civil destruction. ...

Pro-Social Parents Sing More to Their Infants and, By Doing So, Contribute to Greater Language Acquisition, Study Suggests

Plenty of studies, some of them published by the Arts Endowment, have shown how arts participation in early childhood appears to awaken greater social skills...

Children of Men

At Indiana University each spring there is an arts festival in honor of Kurt Vonnegut, Granfalloon. This year’s theme is his novel Cat’s Cradle, which is...

Marc Scorca talks about the critical importance of AI in the arts

Marc Scorca, CEO of Opera America, talks about the critical role of AI in the arts and the future of the industry in a changing political landscape.

Heroes & Zeroes: Why DOGE Shouldn’t Fund Trump’s Redundant Sculpture Garden

Where’s Elon Musk, the DOGE watchdog, when we really need some “Government Efficiency”? There’s nothing efficient about the proposed creation

A Guy Walks Into a Room.

Privilege, in a nutshell, from a liberal, non-Christian, ostensibly White guy. For the ...

Randy Cohen talks about the importance of sharing stories and statistics in the arts

Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research at Americans for the Arts, shares the power of sharing the impact of both stories and numbers in advocating for the arts.

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