The interplay of business, art and science
Good news for the creative industries: If you can’t imagine doing anything outside of the arts, you’re in luck. Designers, writers, painters, and other creatives have a surprisingly bright future, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts. Jobs for artists are projected to [...]
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60 Minutes featured Wynton Marsalis last week in a fantastic interview with Morley Safer. When Safer asked, “Does it sadden you that, for the most part, young people may not even know who you’re talking about when you say Charlie Parker or Duke Ellington?,” Marsalis made these cogent observations about art and culture: “It saddens me that people [...]
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We tend to think of crafting, sculpting, and composing as components of art and design, but what if we applied these to the lives we live? “The way we live our lives, is itself, the process of creating a work of art,” says anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, author of ”Composing a Further Life: The Age [...]
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A special report in The Atlantic: Great art begins with an idea. Sometimes a vague or even bad one. How does that spark of creativity find its way to the canvas, the page, the dinner plate, or the movie screen? How is inspiration refined into the forms that delight or provoke us? The report features [...]
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k.d. lang provides illuminating insights on her creative process, in describing her song writing collaboration with Joe Pisapia — and a great lesson for managers: For creativity to flourish in organizations, managers need to provide a focus to direct creative outputs, as well as the freedom and safety that allows people to fully express themselves. Joe [...]
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Kate Taylor in The New York Times (Oct 25, 2010) reports the US will send artists as cultural ambassadors to show the world that America is more than just Hollywood movies, McEverything and two drawn-out wars. A new $1 million program is being planned by the Obama administration to expand its cultural diplomacy programs to include [...]
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photo credit: JoelMontes How Handwriting Trains the Brain Forming Letters Is Key to Learning, Memory, Ideas Handwriting is a building block to learning. Using advanced tools such as magnetic resonance imaging, researchers are finding that writing by hand is more than just a way to communicate. The practice helps with learning letters and shapes, can [...]
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photo credit: woodleywonderworks Music produces profound and lasting changes in the brain. Schools should add classes, not cut them. In the November 2010 issue of Scientific American, the editors report that neuroscientists have examined the benefits of a concerted effort to study and practice music, and have found that music lessons can produce profound and [...]
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Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork
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