MOST RECENT BLOG POSTS
You Cannot Make this Stuff Up: NYC Department of Ed and its Hypnotherapist How 'bout a choice: a hypnotherapy consultant or free arts curricula?? Which one would you choose?...
Circles of Influence Mapping the social links between the members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities....
That Bloomsbury Voice Paul Levy listens to Virginia Woolf, but yearns for the sound of Lytton Strachey's voice...
Choreographer Karole Armitage uses Africans as props; Taiwanese dance and music troupe brings ancient debauchery to life...
The Things I Hear About Arts Education ...People say the STRANGEST things!!!...
Mr. Brendel, thank you ... an unseen hand has kept its hold over a player and his listeners alike for decades ... Through a long and magnificent career, Mr. Brendel has brought us to an understanding, and a love...
Epic Advertising Are your community's cultural institutions up for a painfully honest and remarkably blunt marketing campaign?...
Pardon Our Dust Wanted: A few radical redecorators....
Ted Wiprud, NY Philharmonic Arts Education Advanceman: Abu Dahbi and Reflections Upon Returning Ho ...People talk about the world getting smaller, but for me it gets bigger. Yes, we've found much that is the same about kids and about learning, but at this point I'm thinking more about the seemingly bottomless levels of difference...
Iowa was the name of the Star Musical talent is an ability to hear and coordinate, certainly. But also it is a capacity to experience ... and a means to dream, unafraid...
Let's Get Philosophical Following Rinde Eckert on the road to the dream you can't imagine....
Come back when you're ecstatic Is it wrong to want art turned up to eleven?...
Arts Education and the Race for Mayor of New York City Do the candidates have positions on arts education????...
A New Twist on Arts Education and Test Scores ...Today more than ever, using the state ELA and math tests raises a very complicated question that you might not have dealt with or considered a few years ago......
The Yankees' Cautionary Tale What the Bronx Bombers aren't doing to give back to their neighborhood, and what that can teach arts organizations....
You Cannot Make This Stuff Up: Elementary Student Barred From Dance Class In Order to Take Test Prep And dig this: we're not even talking about a dance class during the school day--this student was barred from taking it after school....
They Don't Have WiFi In This Coffee Shop, Do They? Is it hypocritical to chastise artists for bad behavior?...
That boy's magic horn Paul Levy loves Lieder at Oxford...
Recenter With famous music, no matter how significant we think our insights are -- we don't make much of a difference...
Our Great-Grandfathers' Butts You think they didn't have fun, even in the movies, back then? Think again....
That boy's magic horn Paul Levy loves Lieder, is horny for Mahler...
On the Death of Ted Sizer ..."When the students forget the explicit contents of today's lesson - and we know that they will - what is left? Anything? What happens after they forget the difference between atomic number and atomic mass?"...
Parsing Rocco Landesman's Big Speech There's Much More To It Than His National Tour, And Some Points Demand Discussion...
How much is originality worth? We consider the case of Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's "Orbo Novo," at the Joyce this week....