Tuesday, September 29, 2020
A little over a year ago I had the great pleasure to be a guest on Erik Gensler’s podcast, CI to EYE (a program of Capacity Interactive, of which Gensler is the founder). We delved into a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMThursday, June 25, 2020
For those who don’t know, for the past three years I have been working in NYC at The New School, a progressive university with a rich history, located in the West Village of Manhattan. I w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
In a 2018 I was invited by Melanie Joseph to write an essay for a book that would mark the final production of the company she founded 25 years earlier, The Foundry Theatre. The book, A Mome…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
In three short months Americans have shifted from tuning into the daily drama surrounding the democratic primaries, to daily Covid-19 briefings and debates over whether or not lives matter m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMMonday, August 26, 2019
Earlier this month I had the privilege and pleasure to speak at the Meighan Forum at the Stratford Festival–a public lecture series hosted by the renowned theater festival in Stratford, On…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
This past Wednesday I participated in a symposium at Indiana University, as part of the opening of its new Center for Cultural Affairs. Among other programs, the Center features a new Arts, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48AMSunday, March 17, 2019
This past week I had the privilege to participate in the 8th World Summit on Arts & Culture, produced by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA). The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:52PMSunday, February 3, 2019
At one point in my tenure as a philanthropoid at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation I went back to the board dockets of decades past to try to piece together the evolution in the Foundation’s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:34PMSunday, April 29, 2018
Last week I had the privilege, pleasure, and honor to give the keynote address at the Canadian Arts Summit–an annual gathering of the board chairs, executive leaders, and artistic leaders …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:38PMSunday, October 15, 2017
I’ve recently starting working as an assistant professor and program director for a new MA in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship (MA AME) at The New School. If you don’t know it, The N…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:52AMFriday, July 28, 2017
Helicon Collaborative, with a grant from the Surdna Foundation, has recently published a second report, Not Just Money, examining where US arts philanthropic dollars go. Some may recall that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:15AMSunday, June 25, 2017
A few weeks back I was in NYC and had the opportunity to attend a Public Forum event featuring the brilliant Jeremy McCarter reading from his new book Young Radicals: In the War for American…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:57PMMonday, June 19, 2017
On the recommendation of a couple friends who are artists I recently read Dave Hickey’s fantastic 1997 memoir Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy. As I was reading a couple essays, i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:15PMMonday, February 20, 2017
This essay was originally published in Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts by the Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. Many thanks to Linda Essi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:25AMThursday, February 16, 2017
Joe Horowitz has written a stirring essay on the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, and New York Philharmonic on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Lincoln Center. In response, A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:14AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Several hours ago now, Donald J. Trump was elected the forty-fifth President of the United States. I haven’t slept in 36 hours. As the results of the election became clear, more than a few…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
A couple weeks back the Chronicle of Philanthropy ran an article by Rebecca Koenig with the headline: Some Nonprofits Misuse Contracts to Hide Activities, Experts Say. The experts cited in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:46AMMonday, July 27, 2015
A couple weeks back I wrote a post about the latest research report from the Irvine Foundation, in response to which several people posted smart comments. My post dealt to a large extent w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:19AMMonday, July 6, 2015
A few years ago I had a meeting with a PhD advisor in the US to talk through the proposed chapter breakdown for my dissertation. When discussing the key components of my final chapter I co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:38PMSunday, June 21, 2015
In May, I gave a talk at the Pave Biennial Symposium on Arts & Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. The theme of this year’s conference was Creativity and New Venture Cre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:13AMThursday, May 28, 2015
Well, 12 posts later, we’ve come to the last post in the series covering my course in aesthetics and business (aka/ approaching beauty) offered at UW-Madison, for undergraduate business m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMSaturday, May 23, 2015
In my last post and this one I am sharing highlights from presentations by the several artists who joined us in the second half of the course and key ideas that resonated most for the studen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AMFriday, May 22, 2015
Apologies for the radio silence. The beauty course marched on but I failed to get anything written on Jumper the past few weeks as I was finishing up the term and writing talks for two sympo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:55AMWednesday, April 29, 2015
In last week’s post I wrote about a lecture by Polly Carl on the first half of Elaine Scarry’s monograph on beauty, which focuses on the relationship between beauty and truth.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:27AMMonday, April 20, 2015
Approaching Elaine Scarry’s On Beauty and Being Just: Elaine Scarry is a major contributor to the discussion on beauty. In the sixth week, the always brilliant Polly Carl gave …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:34PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. Three years ago I was gi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:21PMThursday, March 26, 2015
This is the sixth post in a series of posts focused on the course on beauty that I am coordinating/teaching for business students at UW-Madison. In the fourth week of the Beauty Class I wan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMMonday, March 16, 2015
This post discusses how the students prepared for a visit to the contemporary art museum; their three-hour visit to the museum and the exercises they completed there; and the portfolio as…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
For those following the Beauty Class, this post is about the first two portfolio assignments. One of the primary methods of learning in this course is the creation of portfolios in w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMSunday, February 22, 2015
Art is a different value system. Like God, it fails us continually. Like God we have legitimate doubts about its existence but, like God, art leaves us with footprints of beauty. We sense th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
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…
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