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Essays on cultural infrastructure, leadership, institutional change, and what no one says out loud.
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Why Democracy Needs the Arts (opens the original)
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At the A.I.M by Kyle Abraham gala on September 25, honoree Sherrilyn Ifill asked us to help imagine what comes next for American democracy. Artists, she said, can take something that doesn’t yet exist and give it a form other people can see.Ifill has spent thirty-five years as a lawyer and a law professor. She told the guests she’d assumed the invitation was a mistake. “I’m no dancer,” she said. “I’m not an artist. I’m not wealthy.” Looking at the country that evening, she felt “a bit ambivalent
An Open Letter to the Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (opens the original)
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I write here in my personal capacity, and these views are mine alone. Nothing that follows represent views of any entity or organization with which I am affiliated.Dear Trustees of the Kennedy Center,On the night of September 16, 2026, after Air Force One landed at Joint Base Andrews, Brendan Smialowski of AFP photographed the President at his seat reading a printout. The headline, in red, said KENNEDY CENTER DEMOLIS, and the rest of the word ran off the edge of the page. That afternoon in North
Build Your Career Around the Change You Seek (opens the original)
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A graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago recently asked me how to speak openly about what she wanted to change without putting her career at risk. Another asked how to keep trusting her own judgment while working inside an institution.Here’s the advice I wish I’d received much earlier: let your work show you the change you want, and build your career around it.“Follow your passion” oversimplifies what sustains a working life. Drive is the better word. It means understandi
You Can't Afford the Job You Want (opens the original)
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The offerYou’re in your thirties and you’re the development director of an arts organization. You started in a box office or a coordinator role and worked hard to get this job. Your salary covers a decent apartment, and last year you took a real vacation. People at work ask for you by name.For years you’ve wanted to run a place of your own. You’re a strong fundraiser and you have the numbers to prove it, and you’ve worked next to executive directors long enough to believe you could do what they
The Culture Wars Followed Us Inside (opens the original)
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I write here in my individual capacity, drawing on three decades in the nonprofit arts sector. I speak on behalf of no institution. On September 2, crews arrived at the Kennedy Center and took Joel Shapiro’s Blue off the lawn, where it had stood since 2019. The Center called the removal routine. Former curator Josef Palermo says Richard Grenell had told him a year earlier, in September 2025, to clear the outdoor art because Preside
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