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Five Story Highlights From The Past Week 02.19.17: Trapped By PACs, New WTC As Cautionary Tale, Exploiting Humanities Workers

February 20, 2017 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

Last Week: Have performing arts centers led us to a dead end?... The new World Trade Center in New York demonstrates much of what is wrong with building today's cities... The humanities only exist on the exploitation of its workers... Here's the structure that makes the Grammys racist... A pocket history of fake news. In case you missed it, ArtsJournal published Joe Horowitz's essay on the … [Read more...]

Join Us Today For A Livestream: Artistic Leadership In A Border City

February 17, 2017 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

Following on Joe Horowitz's essay Lincoln Center Snapshot: Bing, Bernstein, and Balanchine Fifty Years Later and the five responses to his provocation, we're in El Paso, Texas today for a conversation about artistic leadership in a city literally divided in two - El Paso, Texas on one side of a border fence and Juarez, Mexico on the other side. The University of Texas, El Paso and the El Paso … [Read more...]

Is The Institutionalization Of Our Arts A Dead End?

February 16, 2017 by Douglas McLennan 12 Comments

In his essay looking back on Lincoln Center on its 50th birthday, Joe Horowitz suggests that the cultural citadel built optimistically to be a launching pad for the American performing arts, might have turned out instead to be a box canyon. Perhaps the buildings are to blame: the Met theatre is too big and unwieldy, and Philharmonic Hall and the State Theatre, despite renovations, haven't … [Read more...]

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I’m the founder and editor of ArtsJournal, which was founded in September 1999 and aggregates arts and culture news from all over the internet. The site is also home to some 60 arts bloggers. I’m a … [Read More...]

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Our culture is undergoing profound changes. Our expectations for what culture can (or should) do for us are changing. Relationships between those who make and distribute culture and those who consume it are changing. And our definitions of what artists are, how they work, and how we access them and their work are changing. So... [Read more]

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