The Reprise
Emil J KangEssays on cultural infrastructure, leadership, institutional change, and what no one says out loud.
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The People Your Board Can’t See
Say a board has two seats to fill and has done the work: it looked hard at where the organization is headed, named the skills and backgrounds it needs, and wrote a profile of the person who would close the gap. Then it goes to fill them. So...
Your Strategy Has No Author (Show Your Work)
Ask staff in an arts organization what they do and they’ll often recite their tasks. Book the artists. Write a marketing plan. Run the in-school program. Cultivate donors.
Tasks tell you what happened. They rarely tell you why people made...
Vandalism with a Permit
Note: This letter represents my own personal views, shaped by more than 30 years in the arts sector. It responds to Zachary Small’s July 24, 2026 reporting in The New York Times and to the White House executive order issued that day.
Dear...
The Ghost in the Building
You’ve seen this leader, or maybe you’ve been this leader. They stepped down a year ago and made sure they were never hard to reach. A board member calls, unhappy with something the new executive director did, and the former leader takes th...
Vision Before Funding
I was a funder for years. When I asked why a project had been delayed or why the same exhausted staff were being assigned more work, the answer was almost always the same: We don’t have the funding.
The absence of funding can slowly become...
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