In this episode, we discuss digital creators and how data can help illuminate a field marked by hybridity and rapidly evolving practice. A transcript...
Alex Laing, President & Artistic Director of Gateways Music Festival and 2018 recipient of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, shares their historic programming as well as his approach to leadership in a new era.
(“Vanessa Bell in a Deckchair” by Roger Fry)
From Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946, Economist, Philosopher, Statesman:
The autumn of 1925 found Keynes, as usual, complaining...
Monica Benson, Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Chicago Sinfonietta, shares their approach to community partnerships along with their commitment to diversity.
The January 2024 “Healing, Bridging, Thriving” summit at the NEA celebrated an ethos of cross-sectoral partnerships involving the arts in federal government. Memorable outcomes were an...
A favourite old book of mine from my childhood is Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, which goes along with his television series. It is old-school history of...
Honoré Daumier went to prison for six months for his 1831 lithograph after its publication in a satirical illustrated periodical that appeared weekly in Paris, "La Caricature morale, politique et littéraire.".
Daniel Levitin has a short article in Wired on the future of music, therapy and well-being. I do not like it.
Preliminary: Levitin is James McGill Professor Emeritus of...