Mere hours before its board renamed the Kennedy Center for Donald Trump, Persuasion ran my online piece on Trump, the Kennedy Center, JFK, and Leonard Bernstein. I will be following up with a 50-minute “More than Music” feature on NPR, to run in January. Here’s the Persuasion article: When people
Literary critic and academic John Carey died last week at the age of ninety-one. I always enjoyed reading his reviews. If you hadn’t already guessed how the Bloomsbury set and their literary contemporaries viewed common folk, his book The Intellectuals and the Masses gives you chapter and verse. I enjoyed Henry Oliver’s appreciation of
The exhibition opened recently at La Contemporaine (an institution associated with Paris Nanterre University). It is free and runs until March 14, 2026. Have a look at some of the montages.
As a longtime reader of Paul Krugman's columns, I can say without hesitation that this is his best Substack conversation yet about AI and its ramifications. Thanks to Paul Kedrosky's clarity, I understand a helluva lot more of what is going on than I did until now.
Erin Harkey, CEO of Americans for the Arts, shares the critical role that the arts play in society and actions everyone can take to advocate for their public support.
In 2020, the AARP’s Global Brain Health Alliance published a consensus report, Music on our Minds: The Rich Potential of Music to Promote Brain Health and Mental Well-Being. The report, produced in consultation with the National Endowment for the Arts, cited promising research on the value of music training for older adults.
Curtis Stewart, Composer-in-Residence of the Sphinx Virtuosi & Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, shares the complexity of his artistic process of creation.
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)
Notions of ownership of creative work, ideas, and artistic identity are muddied when the technology rapidly outpaces attempts to define issues and even what's at stake.
Jordana Leigh, Vice-President of Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, shares the historic significance of their San Juan Hill Festival and the impact of their artist-centered initiatives.
