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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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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We have created this last minute opportunity for a lunch-and-learn session at the AGO while I am in Toronto on business: Topic: What can we learn from the arts that we can apply to business? Time: Wednesday, March 9 · 1:00pm - 3:00pm Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West Toronto, ON Lunchtime talk: Discover the strategic ways art [...]
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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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Replenish your creative stock In the The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron contends that, “In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well-stocked fishpond… If we don’t give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked… As artists, [...]
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This excerpt is from the autobiographical documentary Buenos Aires, meine Geschichte (1998) by German Kral, an Argentinian filmmaker. As he neared the end of his life, Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author and poet (1899 – 1986), expressed his thoughts on the “task of art:” The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening [...]
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Mukti Khair presents a fascinating case study about the birth of a market for Modern Indian Art, in Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge. She says, “Before 1995, fine art was produced in India but there was little demand largely because Indian art was considered provincial or decorative. To create a market, this art was redefined [...]
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Creativity at Work Newsletter: Arts in the news: I was featured in this story and pleased my website served as a resource for the author: Portrait of the artist as a business science student PENNY HAW Business Day Published: 2010/04/26 07:32:21 AM IT TOOK longer than it should have to write this article. I wanted to [...]
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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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