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Tomoko Fujita shares how the Cali Pathways Project transforms lives

Tomoko Fujita, Coordinator of the Cali Pathways Project & Assistant Professor at the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, shares the Pathways structure they utilize to transform lives.

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

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 ...

“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

Yunchan Lim and the Scent of Nostalgia

I am old enough to remember a time when famous pianists were great pianists. It is a topic I rehearse

“Trucks and Tanks” short story, too timely

My just-published story Trucks and Tanks, runner-up in JerryJazzMusician.com‘s 69th short fiction contest and written three months ago, is all too timely in Chicago, DC, Boston today. “Trucks and Tanks” – a short story by Howard Mandel Trucks and tanks rolled down our leafy-treed, bungalow-lined street at dawn. I was already up, as usual, in my robe, t-shirt, sweaty...

Jazz, activism, organizing: Podcast & transcript

Terri Lyne Carrington (drummer, Inst. of Jazz & Gender Justice), Orbert Davis (trumpeter, “Immigrant Stories“) and Marc Ribot (guitarist, Music Workers Alliance) talked with me on The Buzz, podcast of the Jazz Journalists Association about their engagement with social issues. Long transcript posted for those who read faster than they listen. HOST : Hello and welcome to The Buzz, the podcast...

When to Hold, When to Fold, When to Play a Different Game

Leading an arts organization isn’t about luck—it’s about judgment. Hold when trust matters, fold when the model’s busted, and when the casino’s rigged? Start your own game in the parking lot.

From Village Voice to TikTok: Rethinking How Audiences Discover Art

From magazine listings to the For You page, how we discover art has changed—but not as much as we think. Artists should see social media as a tool for accomplishing their goals, not the enemy.

Lauding Lauder: The Consummate Museum Benefactor Dies at 92

I’ve been unpardonably remiss about this (having been uncharacteristically off-blog for two months). But I must belatedly add my voice

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