I seriously fear that the strip mall nonprofit arts sector is our future.

No, Virginia, Santa Claus isn't real. But the Taste Police are, as a photographer discovered when he was arrested for taking pictures "with no apparent aesthetic value."

There have never been more books published, nor more books that have absolutely no impact, than right now.

Push or pull, hard or easy... art will have its way with us, regardless of how we feel. Can theatre guide us through the rough road of American pragmatism?

Media companies need freelancers more, but show their love less and less.

Move over, arts-founding boomers. The next generation needs some space.

She hated your show. Whatcha gonna do?

Theatre can create transformations. It can make you feel freedom. It can give meaning. But its institutions are standing in the way.

En route to Tahiti, the lonely tourist was a famous screenwriter.

Others remember my father as a visual artist, a jazz pianist, and the man who called the fire department in the middle of the night and saved a neighbor's home (and the neighbor) from burning to the ground. I remember him as an amateur historian, a lover of knowledge, a man who always wished his own education had been more complete.