Monica Benson, Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Chicago Sinfonietta, shares their approach to community partnerships along with their commitment to diversity.
The January 2024 “Healing, Bridging, Thriving” summit at the NEA celebrated an ethos of cross-sectoral partnerships involving the arts in federal government. Memorable outcomes were an...
A favourite old book of mine from my childhood is Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, which goes along with his television series. It is old-school history of...
Honoré Daumier went to prison for six months for his 1831 lithograph after its publication in a satirical illustrated periodical that appeared weekly in Paris, "La Caricature morale, politique et littéraire.".
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.
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."
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 ...
In this episode, we discuss recent developments in neuroscientific research on dance and creative movement. A transcript is available on the NEA website.
Hubert Massey, public artist and fresco muralist at the Marygrove Conservancy, shares his creative process of creating extraordinary art that transforms public spaces.