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.
There is a recent piece at Lawfare, by Simon Goldstein and Peter N. Salib, “Copyright should not protect artists from artificial intelligence.” The article has the strawman subtitle, “The purpose of intellectual property law is to incentivize the production of new ideas, not to function as a welfare scheme for artists.”
I have a few problems with it, from their...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=I_nQkfhVHIk&feature=oembed In Western classical music, the iconic composers disappeared sometime midway through the twentieth century, with Dmitri Shostakovich the
Kaneza Schaal, Theater & Opera Artist & Director, talks about the extraordinary upcoming America at 250 season at Detroit Opera and its impact for audiences and community.
Bill Ivey died this past weekend; he was eighty-one years old. It came as a shock to us – just last week he was here in Bloomington meeting with our arts policy students, something he loved doing. He was a great friend to our program, generous with his time and advice to students and to younger faculty. He had...
Tomoko Fujita, Coordinator of the Cali Pathways Project & Assistant Professor at the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, shares the Pathways structure they utilize to transform lives.
In a recent post comparing the White House’s proposed “compact” with universities to the situation facing the nonprofit arts in the United States, I wrote:
The administration’s interventions into the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian museums have received a lot of press, and these “anti-woke” interventions have a lot in common with the Compact. But you might have noticed, we don’t really...
What can arts organizations learn from a runner content creator?How to build connection and trust. Today’s audiences invest in process and personality, not polish—and that shift could change everything for the performing arts.
