Dux Culturae | Fisher Derderian | Substack

The Impresario’s Imagination

How a Russian impresario transformed Paris’s art scene and helped propel modernism onto the world stage.

Oct 3, 2025 • Fisher Derderian

Beyond Noise: Can We Still Compose for the Soul?

A conversation on the future of classical music and the principles worth recovering.

Jun 3, 2025 • Fisher Derderian

Can Culture Still Be Built?

My new piece in The Dispatch on the collapse of legacy institutions and how we might start forming better ones.

May 27, 2025 • Fisher Derderian

What Could Public Patronage Achieve?

Nine proposals to restore purpose and standards in American cultural funding.

Apr 10, 2025 • Fisher Derderian

Art Without Permission

How independent artists are creating new models of support.

Mar 17, 2025 • Fisher Derderian

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