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Almanac: Camus on goodness and love

“There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.” Albert Camus, The Plague Continue reading Almanac: Camus on goodness and love at About Last Night.... Read more

AJBlog: About Last Night Published on: 2021-06-24
Quick Study: Findings from a Longitudinal Study of Arts Education

For this entry, I’m sharing the latest episode of the NEA’s research podcast (Quick Study). This month, we look at promising study results from Boston’s public schools, where arts education has been... Read more

AJBlog: Measure for Measure Published on: 2021-06-23
Snapshot: “Instruments of the Orchestra”

“Instruments of the Orchestra,” the 1946 film in which Malcolm Sargent narrated and led the London Symphony in Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: (This is the latest in a series... Read more

AJBlog: About Last Night Published on: 2021-06-23
Almanac: Borges on love

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” Jorge Luis Borges, “The Threatened” Continue reading Almanac: Borges on love at About Last Night.... Read more

AJBlog: About Last Night Published on: 2021-06-23
Music As Care

A new book on the arts in health provides an excellent perspective and good advice on effective community engagement.... Read more

AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published on: 2021-06-22
From the Seine to the Hudson: The “Jersey City Pompidou”? Incroyable!

How could I not be excited? The Centre Pompidou, Paris’ premier museum for modern and contemporary art, is coming to a venue near me—a mere 10 miles south of La Maison Rosenbaum.... Read more

AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-06-22
Lookback: of memory and mourning

From 2017: The loss of a loved one tears a permanent hole in the fabric of our existence. We learn in time to look away from it and walk around it, but... Read more

AJBlog: About Last Night Published on: 2021-06-22
Almanac: Wendell Berry on love

“I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by... Read more

AJBlog: About Last Night Published on: 2021-06-22
Almanac: My Favorite Year on unfunny people

A scene from My Favorite Year, directed by Richard Benjamin, written by Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo, and starring Mark-Linn Baker and Jessica Harper: (This is the latest in a series of arts-... Read more

AJBlog: About Last Night Published on: 2021-06-21
Almanac: Aquinas on love

“To love is to will the good of the other.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica Continue reading Almanac: Aquinas on love at About Last Night.... Read more

AJBlog: About Last Night Published on: 2021-06-21
Gabriel Van Aalst talks about the role of an Artistic Catalyst

Gabriel Van Aalst, President & CEO of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, talks about their new “Artistic Catalyst” role and the importance of serving community.... Read more

AJBlog: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-06-19
Cézzane Drawings at MoMA Here Are Some Sexy Takeaways

If you can make the MoMA show, you won't regret it.... Read more

AJBlog: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-06-18
Cheering up with Terrence McNallly

In today’s Wall Street Journal, I review a webcast of Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play. Here’s an excerpt. * * * George Street Playhouse is webcasting “It’s Only a Play,” Terrence McNally’s seven-actor... Read more

AJBlog: About Last Night Published on: 2021-06-18
Replay: Cab Calloway appears on The Ed Sullivan Show

Cab Calloway sings “St. James Infirmary” on The Ed Sullivan Show. This episode was telecast live by CBS on February 23, 1964: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related... Read more

AJBlog: About Last Night Published on: 2021-06-18
Almanac: Joseph Conrad on loneliness

“Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.” Joseph... Read more

AJBlog: About Last Night Published on: 2021-06-18
What Was Said

Observations on the Community Engagement Network's Conversations on the topic Benchmarking Equity.... Read more

AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published on: 2021-06-15