Leaders, Artists, Funders Discuss Theatre's Future
11/06/2001
On Monday, October 29, and Tuesday, October 30, the worlds of commercial and non-profit theatre converged as executive directors, researchers, theatre artists, producers, city officials and journalists gathered at Columbia University's School of Journalism to discuss issues that confront New York theatre today and ideas that may lead theatre forward toward a new future.[read article]

Arts Under Attack: Beacons of Hope
10/09/01
A few weeks removed from September 11, Three-Legged Dog's response to the situation as well as the responses of several others groups could provide the beacons of hope needed to rescue the spirits of the entire performing arts community.[read article]

ART/NY Members Discuss Aftermath's Grim Realities
9/20/01
The aftershocks of September 11's tragic events have begun to rock the performing arts community. In a special, emergency meeting organized by the Alliance of Resident Theatres - New York (ART/NY), leaders of New York's not-for-profit theatre community gathered this morning to begin grappling with issues that will likely dominate the next 12 months or more. [read article]

Putting Acting's Soul on Paper
7/13/01
Four times a year, Ronald Rand encourages actors to forget 'show business' for a moment and, instead, indulge themselves in artistic discourse.[read article]

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Transformation to Future Civilization No Easy Task
07/19/1996
In a June 1996 Wired magazine article, "The War Against the Future," Pew Research Center Director Andrew Kohut told John Heilemann that "in general, people used to be hopeful about the future. They assumed things would get progressively better. Now, they worry intensely about everything related to the future. They sense a sort of ... unraveling." But a group of philosophers, historians, economists and generalists have been gazing into the future with unabashed optimism since the early 1980s. These optimists are the progenitors of the Third Wave and they believe "the human story has only just begun."[read article]

Dionne: Journalists must 'rescue fairness'
07/02/1996
Journalists filled the pages of the party organ. Journalists aimed for the high calling of being the 'Bible of Democracy.' Journalists challenged the government when they failed to give the whole truth to the public. And now journalists don't know what to do, says E. J. Dionne Jr., who diagnosed the current crisis of conscience within the modern journalist and made his prescription for the future in the Monday morning Amphitheater lecture.[read article]

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Cover Story:
Visions in Glass
Winter 1995-96
Up to the 20th century, the tradition of glassmaking had been caringly maintained by artists and craftsmen, and the intricacies of its workings were traded between artisans and between cultures for centuries. But the rise of mechanized factories witnessed a decline in the creation of hand-crafted glass. As factories disbanded hand-blown units only a few individual artists and small glass-art firms remained. Glass seemed doomed to commercial servitude.
That is until a determined group of potters eager to free glass from its functional prison made history in the garage of the Toledo Museum of Art.[read article]

Clips from The Guide to come.

Web Services Report
April 2002
At heart nothing more than a stack of protocols, Web services hold a great deal of promise to change not only how software is integrated, but also how business is conducted. Web services could change the future of application integration because Web services allow programs to communicate regardless of language or platform. Web services could usher in a new era in distributed computing because business units within large enterprises could operate their own Web services without messy overlap or exorbitant IT costs. And Web services could establish a new pattern of business process deployment because Web services tools will make authoring Web services easy enough for savvy business executives to do without loads of expensive tech help.[read article]

Swingin' With The Harlem "Globetrotter"
August 2000
How one man's gift and powerful presence continue to inspire the worldwide dance revival.[read article]

Feature:
Tokyo Tuck Turn
May 2000
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