| Trey Devey Shares his passion for Arts Education “If we are empowered with creativity, with collaboration, with all of the skills that come from practicing the arts… that will lead to the breakthrough ideas.” Trey Devey, President of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, speaks to the power of arts education.
Capitol Offense: Metropolitan Museum Blasts “Domestic Terrorism” by “Treasonous Rioters” Throwing caution to the winds, the Metropolitan Museum today went beyond the more measured words of a few other museums in its angry call to “bring to justice those responsible” for the “criminal actions” at the Capitol on Jan. 6. – Lee Rosenbaum
Connect The viability of our industry depends upon developing relationships — making connections — with many new communities. The bases for success are respect and humility. – Doug Borwick
The Architect of the Capitol Assesses the Damage: Our Nation’s Art & Architecture (if we can keep it) This was a week when blogging-as-usual struck me as irredeemably frivolous. Trying to promulgate commentary about art and the artworld seemed fatuous, at a time when our nation’s adherence to the rule of law, reason and humane values (and even its very existence) seemed at stake. – Lee Rosenbaum
Aaron Copland: “One Red to Another” “If they were a strange sight to me, I was no less of a one to them. It was the first time that many of them had seen an ‘intellectual.’ I was being gradually drawn, you see, into the political struggle with the peasantry!” That’s Aaron Copland in 1934, reflecting upon addressing a Communist picnic in Minnesota. – Joseph Horowitz
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