Monica Ellis, Founding Member of Imani Winds & Faculty at Manhattan School of Music, shares strategies for maintaining a portfolio career and the secrets to success for Imani Winds.
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.
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In the Washington Post, Charles Djou, who was a Biden administration official and briefly held an Hawaiian congressional seat, says the US should not, once again, remove itself from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), but should instead remain in and seek positive reforms. Well, who could be against that?
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“Freedom of speech” is never an absolute. Even in a country where people have a great amount of freedom of speech, such as the US, there will still be restrictions on the time, place, and manner of speech, laws regarding libel and defamation, and against fraud and blackmail, and against inciting violence. Freedom of speech will not give the...
Last month, the Scottish government came up with a one-time grant of £300,000 to cover the Edinburgh International Book Festival, after pressure from environmental protestors caused the previous sponsor, Baillie Gifford, to back out.
This week in Canada, its premier book award, the Giller Prize, having lost its primary sponsor, Scotiabank, after protests, has appealed to the Canadian government to keep things afloat:
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My friends Joanna Woronkowicz and Doug Noonan have started a new venture, Arts Analytics, where they hope to bring more extensive, and shared, use of data into arts policy thinking, and also to spur discussion.
A recent post of theirs asked what is actually an old question in the arts policy world: if we are going to subsidize the arts,...
Throughout the digital age, Big Tech has promised us products that will make us more efficient and save time, which, it is assumed, is always an obvious good. It’s a cliché that tools shape the things we make. And through most of our history, better tools have helped us create better things. But what if this isn’t always true?
Opera Philadelphia's $11 ticket prices produced what we expect: increased attendance and more diverse audience. But audience perceptions about price aren't fixed.
