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- 2010.07.19: Lack of Interest Enabled by an Incoherent System
- 2010.01.30: Getting Some Traction
- 2010.01.29: Only Doug Can Pull the Plug...
- 2010.01.29: Wait, wait! Are we done already?
- 2010.01.29: An Encouraging Conversation with Cautionary Notes
- 2010.01.29: Language::Policy, Chicken::Egg
- 2010.01.29: The expressive agenda as part of a wide social agenda
- 2010.01.29: What to Measure
- 2010.01.29: Hey, Wild Bill, Wait for Me!
- 2010.01.29: How and what do you measure?
- 2010.01.28: More Czars Than There Are in Heaven
- 2010.01.28: Do We Need Central Authority in Arts & Culture?
- 2010.01.28: Voice AND Heritage
- 2010.01.28: The Sound of Wheels Spinning
- 2010.01.28: On Measurement and Research
- 2010.01.28: Scorekeeping, by whom?
- 2010.01.27: Scorekeeping
- 2010.01.27: The under-articulated and the over-articulated
- 2010.01.27: You don't know what you've got (till it's gone)
- 2010.01.27: Bring out the Tinfoil Hats
- 2010.01.27: The Writing on the Wall
- 2010.01.27: Making a List
- 2010.01.27: Words and actions
- 2010.01.27: From Words to Action
- 2010.01.27: Naming and Constructing the Frame
- 2010.01.27: Late to Bill's Rumpus
- 2010.01.27: Fried or Sunny Side Up?
- 2010.01.27: Yes, on to the practical application discussion...
- 2010.01.27: Pushing on...
- 2010.01.27: Where's the Action?
- 2010.01.26: The Air is Thin Up Here
- 2010.01.26: Can we add Creative to Expression?
- 2010.01.26: It's Not Always Clear Cut, But...
- 2010.01.26: Nonprofits and Powerbrokers...
- 2010.01.26: Of Ticket Monopolies and Messes
- 2010.01.26: Mergers and inquisitions
- 2010.01.26: Twenty Years On...
- 2010.01.25: Terms of Ensnarement
- 2010.01.25: Seconding the motion and considering democracy
- 2010.01.25: WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!
- 2010.01.25: RE: What's in and what's out?
- 2010.01.25: What's In, What's Out, What's the System
- 2010.01.25: Art and ambiguity
- 2010.01.25: To L. Hyde: When does reframing work?
- 2010.01.25: Beyond the linguistic issue
- 2010.01.25: Will the 'expressive life' get us where we want to go?
- 2010.01.25: When Does Reframing Work? Why?
- 2010.01.25: Switching on to 'expressive life'
- 2010.01.25: What's in a Name
- 2010.01.25: Don't Blame the Words (I)
- 2010.01.25: The Expressive Life Grid
- 2010.01.25: To Marian and Andras...
- 2010.01.25: Two caveats
- 2010.01.25: All models are wrong, some are useful
- 2010.01.24: A rose by any other name . . .
- 2010.01.24: Whose expressive life?
- 2010.01.24: Let's Switch to "Expressive Life!"
- 2010.01.23: Resources
- 2010.01.23: This Conversation
- 2010.01.23: Our Bloggers
- 2010.01.23: Contact us
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This Conversation Are the terms "Art" and "Culture" tough enough to frame a public policy carve-out for the 21st century? Are the old familiar words, weighted with multiple meanings and unhelpful preconceptions, simply no longer useful in analysis or advocacy? In his book, Arts, Inc., Bill Ivey advances "Expressive Life" as a new, expanded policy arena - a frame sufficiently robust to stand proudly beside "Work Life," "Family Life," "Education," and "The Environment." Is Ivey on the right track, or more
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Adrian Ellis; Alan Brown; Andras Szanto; Andrew Taylor; Bau Graves; Douglas McLennan; Ellen Lovell; Bill Ivey, William James; James Early; Jim Smith; Lewis Hyde; Marian Godfrey; Martha Bayles; Nihar Patel; Russell Taylor; Sam Jones; Steven Tepper
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Recent Comments
Diana commented on How and what do you measure?: Nice post I like the sarcasm in it... Great stuff!...
Mini cooper S commented on Scorekeeping: Thanks for a good article. I personally think the only way of giving the p...
Jackie Bailey commented on Scorekeeping: Hi Alan and others, I have been reading your recent conversation about the...
Bourgeon commented on Scorekeeping, by whom?: A similar case can be made regarding preservation (and was, here: http://bo...
Mary Trudel commented on What to Measure: Hello Bill, et al – Yes art does make better people, participants in this ...
Nico Daswani commented on What to Measure: Thanks for this very interesting topic. There is so much to digest here, an...
Jesus Pantel commented on More Czars Than There Are in Heaven: I had thoughts similar to Nihar's - while we may want/need a more centraliz...
Scott Walters commented on Do We Need Central Authority in Arts & Culture?: I agree with you, Bill. Your description here and in "Arts, Inc." of how wi...
Peter Linett commented on More Czars Than There Are in Heaven: All week I've been trying to pin down why this conversation -- as thoughtfu...
Dalouge Smith commented on Scorekeeping, by whom?: The problem isn't just a lack of think tank and data collection infrastruct...
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Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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rock culture approximately
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Dalouge Smith advocates for the Arts
Art from the American Outback
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
For immediate release: the arts are marketable
No genre is the new genre
David Jays on theatre and dance
Paul Levy measures the Angles
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture
John Rockwell on the arts
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Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
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