On Failure and Fun
In this video, Beth Kanter, discusses the prominent resistance to using failure in the nonprofit sector to our benefit or as a learning mechanism. It is helpful to move out of … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-03-10
A Design Thinking Frame of Mind
When you’re watching things go down in flames or they’ve just collapsed in front of you, it can be hard to keep a broad perspective and focus on moving forward productively. … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-03-10
C’mon Celebrate!
Even when you’re in the middle of a sticky situation, it’s possible to find the humor in your predicament and change perspective. Although not all failures are productive, in fact, we’d … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-03-10
View from the street
The Go-Go Symphony rises from the streets and clubs of Washington, DC, combining pop and classical music. And because of that poses — or ought to pose — a sharp challenge to the Kennedy Center … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-03-10
The Operatic Republican Candidates
Anyone who has watched any of the Republican candidates’ debates, particularly the recent ones, has to have been amazed at the extreme statements, the antipathy, the crassness, and the violence of the tone, not to mention … read more
AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2016-03-10
Explaining Delacroix, Continued
The Delacroix exhibition at the National Gallery in London that I mentioned in my last post was also on view here in the U.S., at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, under the title Delacroix’s Influence: … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-03-10
Tracing Bloodlines
The Stephen Petronio Company premieres a new work and revives one by Trisha Brown. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-03-10
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