Foreword / Lynne P. Brown
Introduction : poems don't stay in place : how the arts move and change us / Alberta Arthurs
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
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
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
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
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.
