What You Need to Know
Community engagement and its potential for enhancing the viability of arts organizations is too often poorly understood or just plain misunderstood. It is conflated with other tasks and minimized by people who cannot envision its … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2018-01-09
Should museums have free admission?
A common refrain is that the museum can “afford” to have free admission for all, either through better management of costs, or through increased donations from the very rich. I don’t doubt this. But is it a good idea? … read more
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2018-01-09
Maurice Peress, 1930-2018
Maurice Peress, a conductor who served as a link between jazz and classical music, died over the weekend at his home in New York. He was 87. Peress collaborated with Duke Ellington … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2018-01-09
Oprah, Donald Trump, and The Man Who Saw Them Coming
There has been, of course, an enormous amount of talk about Oprah Winfrey since her truly impressive speech at the Golden Globes Sunday night, and some have proposed her as the ideal candidate for … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2018-01-09