Isaac Butler has written a history of the controversies – dubbed the “culture wars” – that arose in the United States around the arts...

If we call life a fabulous blur — as though it were s lark — even when our sorrows founder in the dark, let's just call it bad luck.

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My two years of high school Latin got me to Julius Caesar's account of his exploits in the Gallic war, written in a straightforward, rather simple style. Unfortunately, I never took third-year Latin, which would have got me to Cicero, whose style was more sophisticated, more complex, and thus more difficult. But I have read Cicero in English and his words of wisdom are eminently clear.

The Paramount merger and Broadway and non-profit theatre are strangely arguments circling the same idea. Paramount essentially argues that there's no such thing as the movie business anymore, only the attention business, and so its merger should not be considered in the context of other movie makers, but also to YouTube and TikTok and Netflix and Amazon. Theatre has ceased to be measured against other theatre (and even when it is, who really seems to care?) and competes inside an attention economy that lives at a scale it can't hope to be viable in.

Kate Sheeran, Dean of the Eastman School of Music, shares initiatives that support student innovation and experimentation.

I once described Bill McGlaughlin, who has died at the age of 82, as manifesting “a singular combination of gravitas,

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bbgkUcCbu3c&version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent I’d like to draw attention to four of the public responses to my recent blog on the “Orchestra

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FhFxik97z08&version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra going through the motions of Wagner’s “Liebestod” – “diminished motivation: as if the music

For the second consecutive summer, Jacob’s Pillow invited choreographers, presenters, producers, academics, and funders to its inspiring home in the Berkshires to exchange ideas...

Rachel Thompson, Program Manager at the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy at Vanderbilt, talks about building curricular ties between students and the arts and art institutions.

After a season of seeing Broadway spectacle and experimental theater, I’m asking a bigger question: if we want audiences to grow, can we stop judging how people experience the art itself?

Bianca d’Avila do Prado, Cellist, Teacher & Composer and Dion Morales, Composer, Teacher & Arranger share the joy and impact of composing for ASTA’s New Canon Project.

The books of Robert Seethaler, one of Europe’s pre-eminent novelists, include a 2020 novella about Gustav Mahler: Der letzte Satz. It’s

A few months ago I posted about a controversy in Australia, where a musician had a future appearance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra cancelled...

Charlie Ortiz, Founder & Executive Director of the WHIN Music Community Charter School, shares the ethos and best practices of building sustainable partnerships.

When you look across the culture at what is gaining traction, some common themes emerge.

Sidney Jackson, President & CEO of Chicago Sinfonietta, talks about their unique role and impact regionally and nationally.

We're now focused on "doping tests" to determine if artists have cheated. Rather than pee in a bottle, however, we're depending on AI detector tools and documentary proof of human creation. Did the Foundation double down to ask what's the best writing? No. They cared more about how it was made. Perhaps that's important. Of course it is. But, in a way, it's now an impossible question. Moreover, it may ultimately be the wrong question.

We know from our research that people love the arts. All kinds of people. Pretty much everyone—provided we talk about it in a way...