A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about the course in beauty that I am teaching this term at UW-Madison, under the auspices of the Business School and the Bolz Center for Arts Admini…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:51AMIn a week I will be heading to Madison, Wisconsin to teach a 12-week course in beauty for undergraduate business majors. The course is aimed at helping students cultivate an aesthetic sens…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMA couple months back I was asked to give a talk on civic leadership to a group of arts leaders participating in the fantastic UK-based Clore Leadership Programme. We tend to take for granted…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32AMDevon Smith has written a smart, provocative post on a debate she engaged in at the recent Americans for the Arts Conference in Nashville. It’s called We Should Allow Failing Arts …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMThere is an arts story that has been nagging at me the past couple months. It’s the recent announcement of the revised plans for the NYC Performing Arts Center planned for the former …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AMDoug Borwick has a new post (inspired by comments made by Lyz Crane at the Creative Placemaking Summit) on the “central disconnect” between arts organizations and community engagement. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:20AMLast week I gave a brief talk in Edinburgh (at an event sponsored by Mission, Models, Money) for a small gathering of leaders in the arts and culture sector. The aim was of the meeting was t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:09AMHappy New Year! This is a condensed and slightly adapted version of a short talk I gave in October at an event called Blowup: Innovation in Extreme Scenarios, hosted by a hub organization ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:59AMRecently, Nina Simon has written a smart post taking aim at the “Need versus Want” distinction often used to describe the role of (nonprofit) arts organizations—as in, “Our job is no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:07AMA few weeks back I was invited to attend the 2013 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference in Philadelphia as a Conference Blogger. I joined Barry Hessenius (Barry’s Blog) and a whole team …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:05AMA couple months back I was one of a number of people interviewed for a research project of Grantmakers in the Arts. The interview was aimed at understanding my influences as a funder (when I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:10AMLast week, over on New Beans, Clay Lord wrote a post in which he mentioned the release of a new report on the salaries at arts agencies and used some of the findings, as well as some person…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMA few days ago, while doing research, an article caught my attention. It was written in 1936 and it was about the birth of Theatre Arts magazine twenty years earlier (in 1916). Here’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:40AMA couple weeks back I gave a talk in Australia at the annual conference of APACA (the Australian Performing Arts Center Association). It’s called Living in the struggle: Our long tug of wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:05AMA couple weeks ago, one of my favorite arts bloggers, Andrew Taylor (a/k/a The Artful Manager) wrote a post whose title conveys a pretty strong thesis: Organizations don’t evolve; they co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:59PMA few weeks back, in a guest-post on Engaging Matters, Roberto Bedoya extended an invitation for others to join him in blogging about “how the White Racial Frame intersects with cultur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PMLast week I wrote a post on the efforts of foundations to encourage diversity (of various forms) in nonprofit arts organizations, in which I suggested that such efforts could be construed a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMClay Lord has been on fire over this past week with a couple truly substantive and provocative posts—both aimed at issues around ethnic diversity in the arts. The first asserts that (1) v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:27AMA couple weeks ago I wrote a post on changing definitions of success in which I, essentially, asked, Can we change them? And do we really want to? In a thoughtful comment to the post (well …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06AMHappy New Year a week late. I picked up a book at the university library a few days ago called Morals and Markets and have read a few chapters, which have been tumbling around in my mind wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:52AMHuffPo blogger and Kennedy Center chief Michael Kaiser recently wrote a post reflecting on the financial corner that many arts organizations have painted themselves into (which he compares …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:08AMAbout a month ago, art critics Sarah Thornton and David Hickey threw in the towel citing frustration, disillusionment, and annoyance with corruption in the art world. I have to admit that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02AMIn November 2011, twenty-five theater professionals gathered in Washington, DC to discuss nonprofit and commercial collaborations aimed at the development of new theatrical work. In spirit (…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:29AMA couple weeks ago I wrote a post about the recent turmoils at a few orchestras in the US which garnered several comments—all well worth reading and more interesting, in my opinion, than m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:50AMUnseemly. This is the word that keeps coming to mind when I think about the recent spate of lockouts, strikes and general discord at US orchestras. The underbelly of orchestras that has bee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:07PMOver the past couple of weeks quite a few people have weighed in on the Detroit Institute of Art’s successful appeal to three counties in Michigan to pass a “millage” (a property tax) …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:10AMLast week I read an article by Pablo Eisenberg in the Chronicle of Philanthropy in which he argues that greater oversight of nonprofits is needed because nonprofit boards can no longer be tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:51AMA few weeks back I wrote a post responding to a session at the Theatre Communications Group conference in which an esteemed leader of a resident theater (Michael Maso) called “bullshit” …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:09AMI attended the Theatre Communications Group conference in Boston a couple weeks ago. On the first day of the conference Michael Maso, managing director of the Huntington Theatre, was present…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:39AMThis past Thursday and Friday I had the honor of attending a convening on global performance, civic imagination, and cultural diplomacy at Georgetown University, hosted by Derek Goldman and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PMLast Friday, I read a story posted on AJ about Michigan Opera getting a one month reprieve on the $11 million it must pay to Chase Bank if it is going to avoid a possible bankruptcy related …
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