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This Is An Emergency

Who will answer the call?

We Don’t Need an Alt Cultural Policy

In a recent post comparing the White House’s proposed “compact” with universities to the situation facing the nonprofit arts in the United States, I wrote: The administration’s interventions into the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian museums have received a lot of press, and these “anti-woke” interventions have a lot in common with the Compact. But you might have noticed, we don’t really...

Why Are American Nonprofit Arts Organizations Failing? It’s Not as Complicated as You Think.

The easiest explanations tend to be the right ones. A lost Magritte. ...

Show the Miles, Not Just the Medal

What can arts organizations learn from a runner content creator?How to build connection and trust. Today’s audiences invest in process and personality, not polish—and that shift could change everything for the performing arts.

Sidney Jackson talks about the unique role that Chicago Sinfonietta plays focused on diversity in American orchestral music

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

“Parsifal” Then and Now — A DEI Blitz

Amfortas raises the Grail Cup (act one, scene two). Photo by Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera So protean are the operas

Baudelaire’s Head Floats into Gauguin’s Portrait

Cut-ups do strange things.

Loneliness and the Arts: If Bringing People Together is the Cure, What is the Disease?

Finally, a damaging health issue that could be solved and mitigated by the nonprofit arts sector, but where are the ...

Ahmed Anzaldua talks about Border Crossing’s programming of Latin American classical music

Ahmed Anzaldua, Artistic Director of Border Crossing, talks about their commitment to impacting audiences through their programming of Latin American classical music.

Out of Hand Theater is the Best Theater in America

$1 million of government funding rescinded? Big deal. When your nonprofit arts organization chooses to do the right thing, it’s ...

Christine Taylor Conda talks about the importance of the One Score, One Chicago program

Christine Taylor Conda, Executive Director of Education and Community Engagement at Ravinia, talks about the unique impact of their One Score, One Chicago program.

“Cheapening Freedom by Over-Praising It”

The journal H-Diplo Review, addressing scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history, has graciously published a little something I

Esteeming Esterow: My Paean to the Late Editor of ARTnews magazine

Milton Esterow at a 2019 Metropolitan Museum press preview, with Leonardo’s “St. Jerome” in backgroundPhoto by Lee Rosenbaum He could

Born in the DSA*: It’s Time To Outlaw Donor Advised Funds (DAFs)

If you understand “Time Value of Money,” then you’ll understand just how uncharitable these schemes are — and the users ...

John Richmond shares strategies for balancing innovation and tradition in the arts

John Richmond, Dean of the College of Music of the University of North Texas, shares strategies of balancing innovation and tradition that embody excellence transforming pathways into the arts.

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