Arts Innovations that improve the vibrancy of arts and culture

How a strategic investment steered an educational-technology startup into trouble.

How a dose of banking discipline strengthened financing for smallholder farmers.

A combination of fresh funding and e-book technology will enable publishers to give new life to out-of-print scholarly works.

Before critiquing art that speaks to climate change, the scientific community must broaden its view on what art is and how it can help the movement.

The creative industries—those at the crossroads of arts, culture, business, and technology—can offer an economic jump-start for recovering economies.

America must invest in art and imaginative capacity.

Jeff Skoll is one of the most creative, generous, and effective philanthropists of his time. And at age 47, he’s just getting started.

The argument that the arts are an economic engine (true or false) is unpersuasive.

By James A. Phills & Victoria Chang 1

Minnesota Public Radio: social purpose capitalism.

Review

Review By Kavita Nandini Ramdas 3

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof