What Google presented this month was revolutionary, a declaration that the web as we know it is dead, and an operating manual for how the new web will work. More important, it suggests how we all will find — or fail to find — culture over the next decade.
Neil Barclay, President & CEO of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, talks the evolving landscape for BIPOC organizations and avenues for sustainability.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7bhDcSZYZUs&version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Esther van Zyl as Alma Mahler in my play “The Marriage,” as performed at Colorado Mahlerfest two
On the weekend John Ganz had an interesting discussion of our rich tech-elites and aesthetic taste, of which they have little, and who would hope to...
Hollywood has reinvented its core model at least six times in a century. The nonprofit arts model has reinvented itself exactly once. Now there may no choice. But what's the case?
Christine Taylor Conda, Executive Director of Education and Community Engagement at Ravinia, talks about the unique impact of their One Score, One Chicago program.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports:
Jayson Gillham believes artists have a right to bring their whole selves to the stage.
“I believe that everyone has the right...
My introduction of a concert of piano music performed by New England Conservatory students on April 14, 2026 in Jordan Hall, Boston.
This concert is...
By revenue, the nonprofit arts sector is small — about $73 billion in organizational spending compared to $1.17 trillion in total US arts and cultural production. Disney's annual revenue alone is larger than every US nonprofit cultural institution in the country combined. But the map of audience shows something entirely
Today’s online “Arts Fuse” carries a piece of mine commenting yet again on the Boston Symphony firestorm, which pits enraged musicians against the management and board – and turns Andris Nelsons, the outgoing music director, in a martyr. Excerpts follow. The read the whole thing, click here. A 14-page “State
We would not have our Guardians grow up among representations of moral deformity, as in some foul pasture where, day after day, feeding on every poisonous weed, they would, little by little, gather insensibly a mass of corruption in their very souls. Rather we must seek out those craftsmen whose
Depth hasn't disappeared. Perhaps it's gone lateral. The vertical architecture that produced "official" cultural memory has cracked, but the appetite for tradition — for context, for lineage, for the why — has migrated to wherever audiences and individuals can build their own context and throughlines. Sometimes those lines are deep
