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The AI that has Colonized our Creativity

Everyone's talking about AI, and you're being pestered to use it every time you open your phone. But are you aware the extent that AI has taken over how much of what you see and hear online?

Erin Harkey talks about the critical role the arts play in society

Erin Harkey, CEO of Americans for the Arts, shares the critical role that the arts play in society and actions everyone can take to advocate for their public support.

Strength in Numbers: Large Study Suggests Role for Music in Preventing Dementia

In 2020, the AARP’s Global Brain Health Alliance published a consensus report, Music on our Minds: The Rich Potential of Music to Promote Brain Health and Mental Well-Being. The report, produced in consultation with the National Endowment for the Arts, cited promising research on the value of music training for older adults. 

DOGE Has Evolved from Chainsaw to Ticks

Today's headline at WIRED is a reminder of "Billboard Proposal #2," which was posted seven months ago. And now that Elon Musk's chainsaw has evolved, this is not so much an I-told-you-so as confirmation of his so-far inescapable assault. Let us also not forget "Billboard Proposal #1."

When Doctors Prescribe the Arts as Treatment, Nonprofit Arts Organizations (At Long Last) Prove Their Worth

Unless, of course, they muck it up by asking for money. (Image by ...

The Lakota Music Project vs. “Rootlessness” Today

Delta David Gier conducts the Creekside Singers and members of the South Dakota Symphony in Derek Bermel’s “Lakota Refrains” [Photo

Curtis Stewart shares the complexity of his creative process

Curtis Stewart, Composer-in-Residence of the Sphinx Virtuosi & Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, shares the complexity of his artistic process of creation.

Comment threads

To anyone who has posted in the comments lately: my old email address has returned to dust, and I did not realize that notifications to me about comments were be sent to that old address. I have updated it, and will be better about approving and responding to your thoughts. Sorry!

What should we teach future arts administrators and where should we teach it?

(Indiana University Bloomington, Kelley School of Business (left) and O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (right)). At her blog Arts Analytics, Joanna Woronkowicz has written a post – reposted to a wide audience at artsjournal.com – trying to answer the two questions in the title of this post, with the heading (which I don’t fully understand) “Stop teaching arts administrators to run organizations.” Some background: in the...

The 2025, Final, Never-To-Be-Repeated, Carol for Nonprofit Arts Organizations

I know, it’s tradition. Every year about this time, another carol and generally, you don’t read it. But this will ...

Happy Hundredth Birthday to Gunther Schuller (1925-2015)

On November 22, Gunther Schuller would have been 100 years old. It was my pleasure to contribute an encomium to

Not Really a Manifesto, I guess, but Perhaps a Framework for Thinking about AI and Art…

Notions of ownership of creative work, ideas, and artistic identity are muddied when the technology rapidly outpaces attempts to define issues and even what's at stake.

Jordana Leigh shares the unique importance of the San Juan Hill Festival

Jordana Leigh, Vice-President of Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, shares the historic significance of their San Juan Hill Festival and the impact of their artist-centered initiatives.

AI and artists and rights

There is a recent piece at Lawfare, by Simon Goldstein and Peter N. Salib, “Copyright should not protect artists from artificial intelligence.” The article has the strawman subtitle, “The purpose of intellectual property law is to incentivize the production of new ideas, not to function as a welfare scheme for artists.” I have a few problems with it, from their...

Maurice Ravel, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, and the Vanishing Authority of French Pianism

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I_nQkfhVHIk&feature=oembed In Western classical music, the iconic composers disappeared sometime midway through the twentieth century, with Dmitri Shostakovich the

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