Daniel Levitin has a short article in Wired on the future of music, therapy and well-being. I do not like it. Preliminary: Levitin is James McGill Professor Emeritus of...

Daniel Levitin has a short article in Wired on the future of music, therapy and well-being. I do not like it. Preliminary: Levitin is James McGill Professor Emeritus of...

Daniel Bartholemew Poyser, Barrett Principal Education Conductor & Community Ambassador of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, shares their innovative approaches to engagement that are transforming communities and young people.

Teddy died last Sunday after a short, swift illness, probably cancer. He was eleven years old. My seminal Teddy memory:

Over the years he had many, in fact, although few of them lived up to his expectations. But never mind. An updated model of his and Ian Sommerville's Dreamachine was recently featured in a symposium on art, AI, and the humanities here in New York; and another will be installed in London at the Tate Modern, in the exhibition "Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet,"which will run from the end of this month (Nov. 28) to June 1, 2025. Meanwhile, Roger Knoebber has brought Gysin back to life in a shaggy, unconventional book-length profile, "Hysteresis."

The holiday tradition continues because we know you won’t read it. Photo by ...

Charlie Ortiz, Executive Director of the WHIN Music Community Charter School, shares the vision and process behind their new $44 million home.

By my philosophy The finite, but imponderable Metaphysical Universe Embraces the definite, Ponderable, physical Universe. 'Finite' is not unitarily conceptual. 'Definite' is unitarily conceptual. I have mathematical proof ...

On NPR this morning is a short piece pondering the fates of the NEA and NEH under the second Trump administration. It is optimistic,...

“Singing Black” — Tibbett in “The Emperor Jones” at the Met (1933) Today’s online edition of “The American Scholar” carries

In this episode, we discuss recent developments in neuroscientific research on dance and creative movement. A transcript is available on the NEA website.

I see somewhere that the Prez-Elect is hawking guitars, his latest grift. (No indication of where they're made.) So how about shoelaces? Very strong. Easily knotted. Made in China. Only 2 cents each, pre-tariff.

Scholars and specialists addressed ethical and political considerations surrounding AI in collaborations with human creators. Topics ranged from AI aesthetics to the early history of machine learning, from multimedia art to computational research experiments with artificial intelligence, including AI biases and applications.

First, they define the community. Then ask what they need, not what they want. Finally, they don’t confuse it with ...

"The dodo bird cheered, swaggered, and strutted away."

Hubert Massey, public artist and fresco muralist at the Marygrove Conservancy, shares his creative process of creating extraordinary art that transforms public spaces.

A dear friend of mine died recently of a sudden heart attack. I discovered that the only music I found

Regardless of the elections, the issues haven’t changed for US nonprofit arts organizations. But the stakes are higher than ever. Life ...

When I was a child we had some really old Peanuts paperbacks, now long lost, and for reasons unknown – some spirit knew I...

Jérémy Jolley, Senior Director of Education & Community Engagement at the Seattle Symphony, shares how providing access to performance space impacts their partners and community.