Around the World in 30 Days – January 2019
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Forty-one years ago, Agnes Gund read an article about the arts being virtually eliminated from the budget of the NYC Board of Education. She had an idea. What about bringing visual artists to teach in schools where there was no art instruction? Studio in a School, the organization she founded, has done just that. The Global Search for Education welcomed Executive Director Chris Wisniewski to talk...
The Global Search for Education: Artists Coming to a School Near You
Artwork created by a group of 4th graders at PS 148 in Queens “If we want our children to grow up learning how to learn and how to think, we should be working in the other direction: make the classroom look more like the art studio.” – Christopher Wisniewski Forty-one years ago, Agnes Gund read an article about the arts being virtually eliminated from the budget of the NYC Board of Education. She had an idea. What about...
The Global Search for Education: Play it Again Spirio
Play it Again Spirio Many experts say it could be as soon as 30 years when machines will be capable of doing almost any job that a human can. Globally honored musician Leonard Cohen once wrote, “Music is the emotional life of most people.” Music is a universal language; the poetry of the soul. We experience this when we listen to a live concert pianist’s fingers glide over the 88 keys of a Steinway piano; when we see...
The Global Search for Education: How to Make Music Online
“Because it’s a platform and not just a tool, the eco-system allows for non-musicians to participate alongside musicians, music producers, artists, music labels/publishers and the industry as a whole. You can make and share music in real time with people around the planet.” — Craig Swann Craig Swann, the Founder and Chief Imagination Officer of Looplabs, wants everyone to be able to create their own music....
Bieber Bathos Elegy and Bernstein – Live from The Whitney
Bieber Bathos Elegy debuts at The Whitney this month “It’s time for me to grow up,” Justin Bieber said in a recent interview. And growing up amidst the pressures of a complex world and a relentless public eye is the tricky, tenuous, entertaining theme of New York based artist Felix Bernstein’s new musical spectacle, Bieber Bathos Elegy, which will debut at The Whitney Museum of American Art this month. During...
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