Wednesday, June 7, 2023
About a year ago, I wrote about a post Colleen Dilenschneider made showing a link between museum gift shops and museum memberships. She recently wrote a similar piece about how gift shops …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:04AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
So as you are getting out there traveling to enjoy the natural beauty of the U.S. National Parks this summer, you may want to take a cautionary note from a case Gordon Firemark wrote about i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:43AMWednesday, May 31, 2023
So either the disruptions at performances in the UK are growing increasingly problematic or the topic has become a favorite bete noire of news outlets because I continue to see stories on th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMTuesday, May 30, 2023
It is likely you haven’t been able to avoid the seemingly incessant discussion about the negotiations to raise the debt limit. If you haven’t been able to muster the zen-like state of le…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMThursday, May 25, 2023
Earlier this week the LA Times had a rather lengthy piece on the closing number of the musical Six, a show about the six wives of Henry VIII. In the final number which has come to be known…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMWednesday, May 24, 2023
Howard Sherman posted a link to a New Yorker article about some intrepid film actors who stumbled upon an overlooked section of the The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Televis…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMTuesday, May 23, 2023
Over the weekend I caught a couple news articles out of the UK about a production which is carving out one performance in their run for black audiences only. The show, Tambo & Bones, whi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMWednesday, May 17, 2023
We were participating in a scavenger hunt for a local 3rd grade class today. The kids were given clues associated with museums, galleries and public art around the downtown area. In addition…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
TRG Arts recently released some data showing that not all segments of performing arts have recovered from pandemic shutdowns at the same rate. Comparing four factors from 2019 to 2022: Tic…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMMonday, May 15, 2023
A link to a great story came across my feed today about a Hawaii Symphony Orchestra’s production that was really focused on resonating with the interests of the community they serve. Las…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:32PMWednesday, May 10, 2023
I was scrolling through Reddit while waiting for a show to end Friday night and happened upon a post that reflects great engagement by the St. Louis Blues hockey team. A guy discovering ho…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36PMVu Le made a thought provoking post with suggestions to make fundraising events more community-centric. The subtext of his thoughts is essentially to avoid valorizing donors and literally ma…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AMTuesday, May 9, 2023
It appears the folks that spearheaded the Save Our Stages effort during Covid which became the Shuttled Venue Operators Grant program are turning their energies toward tackling all the probl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMThursday, May 4, 2023
There is a fairly extensive article on the Time magazine site about using creative practice to address burnout. The piece by Jamie Ducharme was titled “I Tried to Cure My Work Burnout. H…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:18AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
I had a post appear on ArtsHacker today about hiring executive leadership in the context of the social changes which have occurred since the start of the Covid pandemic. My post primarily fo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMColleen Dilenschneider made a post comparing what factors created dissatisfaction for attendees of cultural events in 2019 vs. 2022. She posted charts for both exhibit and performance based …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:36AMMonday, May 1, 2023
Leadership transitions are important for arts and culture organizations. We have featured a number of articles on the topic, covering both planning philosophy and actual practical examples. …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:56AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
Nina Simon may have left museum administration and being an agent of change behind to write books, but she still manages to live and think right on the cusp of things. Today, I receive an ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
Artsjournal linked to a piece in a University of Florida journal about a program the university is piloting in the hopes of eventually rolling out a national program of prescribing arts to s…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMMonday, April 24, 2023
Another entry in the “What is art” debate– A bakery owner in NH allowed students to paint a mural on his building. Because the mural depicted a sun rising over mountains made of donuts…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PMFriday, April 21, 2023
Earlier this month, the Albany Times-Union reported that there won’t be much theatre occurring at the storied Willamstown Theatre Festival. The reason is based on the staff walkouts and …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMWednesday, April 19, 2023
Bloomberg recently had a piece about how the Girls Scouts of Colorado recently opened a space in Denver known as DreamLab, envisioned to be a third space for girls. As spaces for young peopl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMTuesday, April 18, 2023
By now most people have probably heard about the brawl between audience members at a Manchester, England performance of The Bodyguard because people were singing along to “I Will Always Lo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:32AMThursday, April 13, 2023
Thanks to Barry Hessenius for providing my post topic today. He sent a link to an Inc magazine piece titled “Want to Raise Kind, Generous Kids? Take Them to an Art Museum.” Readers will …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
When I saw a notice about MAD Magazine artist Al Jaffee’s death at 102 yesterday, it was tucked in the corner of a website so I didn’t think there would be a lot of notice. But this morn…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:42PMMonday, April 10, 2023
A Guardian article on classical music in Iceland caught my eye last week. The story basically suggested that because the country got a late start with classical music, (first major tour by H…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:06PMThursday, April 6, 2023
You may have seen a rise in backlash against Ticketmaster fees coming from performing artists. Neil Young recently posted that exploitative ticketing fees were taking the fun out of touring.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
The blog for Master of Management in International Arts Management had a case study post by Donna S. Finley and Vijay Sathe examining how the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) and Alberta…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMTuesday, April 4, 2023
This morning I saw Artsjournal had linked to a story about the seizure of a statue at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which had apparently been stolen from Turkey. More and more frequently th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
Via Artsjournal.com is a story on Fast Company about the return of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus which ceased operations in 2017. Feld Entertainment, which owns the circus is…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMMonday, March 27, 2023
Being customer focused rather than internally focused is the name of the game these days. Drew McManus provided a great example of customer focused design in an interview on Dave Wakeman’s…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:02PM 
