Foreword / Lynne P. Brown --
Introduction : Poems Don't Stay in Place : How the Arts Move and Change Us / Alberta Arthurs --
Part I : Strengthening Society. What Is to Be Done? / Oskar Eustis --
New York Reimagined : Artists, Arts Organizations, and the Rebirth of a City / Mary Schmidt Campbell --
Leading Institutional Change : New Thinking about Mission, Values, and Purpose / Jesse Rosen and Daniel Weiss --
The Arts Today / Karol Berger --
Are the Arts Essential? / Darren Walker --
Part II : Benefiting the Individual. Art in Theory : An Insight from Marcel Duchamp / K. Anthony Appiah --
"Exchanging Signals with the Planet Mars" : Reading as Relationship / Edward Hirsch --
Talking of Walking / Alice Sheppard Why Teach the Arts : Beyond Specious Claims / Ellen Winner --
A Human Beauty, a Human Risk : The Arts Within Us / Catharine R. Stimpson --
Part III : Finding and Fostering Community. Reflections : Are the Arts Essential? / Deborah Willis --
An Urdu of the Twenty-First-Century United States / Zeyba Rahman and Hussein Rashid --
Cultural Conservatory : Living the Arts / Cristal Chanelle Truscott --
It's Who We Are / Angela Cox --
An Artist's Journey / Tania León --
Part IV : Engaging the Sciences. The Work of Art in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing / Steven Tepper --
City as Living Laboratory : Creating a New Narrative for Climate Change and the Public Realm / Mary Miss --
Unreasonable Movement : Unreasonable Thought / Elizabeth Streb --
Jazz and Consciousness / Fred Hersch --
Part V : Recording and Sharing Our Histories. Art and Consciousness from Blombos Cave to Black Lives Matter / Mariët Westermann --
Art Saved Us ... from What? / Karen L. Ishizuka --
Darkness and Light : the powers of performing / Richard Sennett --
Art Invites the World In / Carol Becker --
On the Value of the Arts and Culture in a Global Community / Jeffrey Brown --
The Arts and Global Relations / Jay Wang --
Conclusion : The Art of Gathering / Michael F. Diniscia --
Annotated Bibliography / Leah Reisman.
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