This is what happens when you take a razor to a pair of images cutting them up in vertical strips. And this is what happens when the procedure is applied to a single image, then doubling the result upon itself. Jiří Kolář gave the name “rollage” to this kind of minimalist collage technique.
Recently artsjournal.com shared a lengthy piece by composer and musician Jonathan Blumhofer, on the arts in times of political unrest. Although you will see I disagree with its message, it is a thoughtful and considered piece.
After a discussion of the complex, to say the least, relationship between conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Nazis, he writes:
Furtwängler and his Brahms performance...
Patricia Mooradian, President & CEO of The Henry Ford, shares the extraordinary journey and impact of The Jackson House where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stayed and planned the Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
Marin Alsop, Principal Guest Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, talks about the role of orchestras in society and the importance of cultural exchange.
A new report from the National Endowment for the Arts re-affirms what we have learned from many other previous studies—namely, that arts education is closely linked with positive academic outcomes and social and emotional development.
The report appears in the wake of new data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), based on survey questions that researchers from the...
The arts themselves, as I considered the matter, by their ultimately sensual essence, are, in the long run, inimical to those who pursue power for its own sake. Conversely, the artist who traffics in power does so, if not necessarily disastrously, at least at considerable risk.
A Buyer’s Market (1952).
Call it entrumpy—a “gradual decline into disorder” (riffing on “entropy”), attributable to the unpredictability of our unprecedented President. Exploiting his
This is a blog about arts management and policy. But as someone who has led many students through the basics of international trade, and as your resident Canadian, I’m going to use this space for a few words on the current state of relations across the 49th parallel.
As bad as things are in the current tariff dispute, I...
