Apr 24, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
I spent three days last week directing a conference that focused on Jewish Identity in the Arts. As often does at such gatherings, the spectre of the Holocaust hovered over the proceedings and questions about (to quote Adorno) how one can make art after such evil...
Apr 17, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
The national conversation surrounding the arts in academia has focused on, at various times recently, the arts as: an engine of commerce, a tool for better articulating science or of theater, a training method for business to learn better communication skills…...