Communities of Necessity
As part of the community engagement planning process virtually every arts organization has to make choices about which communities they want to seek out as partners. (We are talking here about new communities. Current stakeholders … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2018-04-24
Duke Ellington, 1899-1974
Forty-nine years ago this evening at the White House in Washington, DC, the president of the United States hosted a party honoring Duke Ellington on his 70th birthday and presenting him with … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2018-04-24
Coming to grips
One objection to Kendrick Lamar winning the Pulitzer Prize went like this (from Twitter) … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2018-04-24
The Shock of the Not Quite New: La Pittura dopo il Postmodernismo alla Reggia Caserta
I’ve just come back from Naples, following a few days at Caserta, to see a variant of an exhibition we saw in Brussels in September, 2016, under the title “Painting After Post-Modernism” … read more
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2018-04-24