Alexandra Wilson thinks something has gone wrong in the art world. While there have been great works of art dealing with political subject matter since ancient times, and moving works that involve political advocacy and moral exhortation – “That Man to Man the warld o’er / Shall brithers be for a’ that” – we now have a situation where...
This one is hard to write.
Over dinner a while back, a colleague I affectionately call my “sister from another mother” and I kept circling a pattern that is difficult to name without sounding ungenerous. We kept starting sentences and abandoning them, because every version seemed to insult people we both admire. But the pattern is real, it is showing...
Twenty-five years ago the digital revolution rewrote the ways culture gets found, valued and paid for. The battles were fought in a series of skirmishes over disruptive technologies that remade the ways creative marketplaces were organized. AI is poised to do the same. So... lessons?
This book by Udo Breger recounts encounters with Gysin, shared journeys between London, Paris, Basel, Amsterdam, and New York, as well as conversations, projects, and moments that paint a portrait of this extraordinary man. It is a personal document, a space for remembrance, and at the same time an invitation to rediscover Gysin.
Classical music pundits have no shortage of ideas for saving classical music. More social media, cheaper tickets, shorter concerts, more contemporary repertoire, young musicians on Instagram, concerts in bars, movie scores, video game scores, new donor programs, new audience initiatives, new branding. Some of these are good ideas and a few of them demonstrably work.
My concern is that we...
Vince Paul, President & Artistic Director of Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, talks about building facilities and strong connections with community.
A year ago James Marriott had a Substack post on “the dawn of the post-literate society” that as I write has over 21,000 likes and 6,000 restacks: clearly something that struck a chord. And now we have a book length treatment of the issue, though a short book – put your phone away and you can read it in...
