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.
(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)
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
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.
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...
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...
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 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.
Opera Philadelphia's $11 ticket prices produced what we expect: increased attendance and more diverse audience. But audience perceptions about price aren't fixed.
Michelle Wu was a musician, a pianist, before she was a politician—and she remains a musician today. You might have heard her play George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue across the street at Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops, or music by Mozart with the Boston Symphony.
Plenty of studies, some of them published by the Arts Endowment, have shown how arts participation in early childhood appears to awaken greater social skills and behaviors at a crucial stage of development. It’s no surprise, especially among infants and toddlers, that most arts activities involve a parent or caregiver. It
UPDATE: Mary Anne Carter, whom I identified (in this post, below) as Senior Advisor to the National Endowment for the Arts, has since been nominated by President Trump to resume her previous position as NEA’s chairman (as reported by Zachary Small of the NY Times.). Where’s Elon Musk, the DOGE
