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Nonprofit arts organizations can be nonprofit arts organizations. Big deal. If the NEA’s funding were eliminated, how would that change ...

Allyssa Jones, Founder of Rising Tide Music, talks about the importance of providing access for young people to diverse composers.

Which the Beauty? Which the Beast?

President Kennedy at Amherst College, where in a major arts address he extolled “free artists” Today’s online Persuasion magazine carries

In this episode, we discuss findings from a UK study about the economic consequences of using arts-based strategies to improve health and well-being. A transcript is available at the Arts Endowment website.

Cold Turkey Press is publishing an illustrated, four-page folio of "Frankly Speaking" with a drawing by the young British artist Amélie Cardy in an edition limited to 36 copies. And a poster of the poem with a drawing by Cézanne is seeking a publisher.

The fires in Los Angeles have been brutal. Billions, if not trillions, will be needed. And the posh Getty Villa ...

A conversation with Hana S. Sharif, Artistic Director of Arena Stage since August 2023. Sharif discusses her transformative first year at the helm and her inaugural season as Arena’s producing artistic director. She reflects on the vibrant theatrical community in Washington, D.C., and her commitment to amplifying dynamic voices in American theater. With an ambitious 2024/25 season featuring eight new works, including...

Here we go again. To mark the resumption of our long nightmare, my staff of thousands thought it apt to repost this from 2017: On the day he is sworn in as the preening el presidente of a tin-pot United States of Trumpistan, enabling him to run the country like a division of his family-held company, Thin Man Press will release American Porn, a collection of "investigative poems about American history, culture and politics" by Heathcote Williams.

In my most recent NPR “More than Music” show – “’Blowin’ in the Wind’ – Music and American Identity” —

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With an empowered anti-arts, anti-education, and anti-culture base running the country, this is the time to commit to your community, ...

Since it’s very late in the afternoon, long past time for lunch, please pardon my dishevelment. . . .

It’s been a year since I posted to the Artful Manager, when I reflected on the passing of my dear friend and colleague Diane Ragsdale. Since then, I’ve been focusing my public writing in the ArtsManaged initiative, an effort to create free, online, and evolving resources for Arts Management practitioners. You can subscribe to the weekly newsletter, browse the...

Art that is primarily skill-based -- graphic design, stock music or images, text and marketing, etc -- can be created faster and often better than human artists, and at lower cost. This is particularly true for compound art that requires specialized equipment and/or collaboration of specialists. As for art with high creative quotient, humans will not only be essential, but the automation of skills available to them will likely make them better. Maybe much better. And certainly more prolific.