Thursday, January 22, 2026
h/t to Anne Smith who posted this video on Linkedin of Ethan Hawke talking about giving yourself permission to be creative. For me the big impactful statement he makes is that everyone think…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36AMWednesday, January 21, 2026
There’s a kinda meme image circulating where a person says they had imagined a future where AI made her work easier so that she had more time for creative leisure. Instead, AI is being use…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:02AMThursday, January 15, 2026
Imagine, just as you have gotten with the times and started to effectively use social media to communicate and engage with younger audiences, the tool is yanked away. That is kinda what is h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMWednesday, January 14, 2026
A recent report in The Art Newspaper addressed an issue of which I was entirely unaware – Visual artists are essentially being forced to pay for their own shows as a result of so much fund…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, January 13, 2026
Pretty much every public event space, including theaters, will receive questions about the accessibility of their spaces and programs. There are even more questions when the space is a histo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMTuesday, January 6, 2026
Hyperallergic had a great article for artists who are trying to establish their careers later in life. Author Paddy Johnson answers concerts about fitting in with younger, apparently better …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PMMonday, January 5, 2026
The Wall Street Journal had an article about how Companies Are Desperately Seeking Storytellers. In some cases this seems to be a re-titling of social media, public relations, marketing, pod…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMTuesday, December 30, 2025
I mentioned last week that Arts Midwest sent out a year in review newsletter recently. In addition to the laundromat turned laundrobar in Columbus, OH that has taken a place in that city’s…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMTotally off my radar until I saw a LinkedIn post by April Clark. Starting December 24, 2025 your local post office will no longer postmark outgoing mail. The postmark will be places on the m…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AMWednesday, December 24, 2025
Yes, ’tis the season for ticket scams I am afraid. My venue often sees an uptick in complaints around the holidays. We often attribute it to the fact we have people attending events at our…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMTuesday, December 23, 2025
Arts Midwest sent out a year in review newsletter this week. I was pleased to see there were some stories they had shared I had missed. One was about Dirty Dungarees, a laundromat in Columbu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:32AMWednesday, December 17, 2025
Fast Company has leaned into the Christmas season with an article on three financial lessons from the movie, It’s A Wonderful Life. In general the tips are oriented toward investing your t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24AMTuesday, December 16, 2025
Seth Godin made a post recently about what to consider if it appears your marketing efforts aren’t yielding desired results: Marketing isn’t hype. Marketing is making a product or servic…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:02AMThursday, December 11, 2025
h/t Artjournal.com which linked to a story about Lectures On Tap, a program of academic lectures being held in bars around LA, San Francisco, Boston, NYC, and Chicago. There are other simila…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMWednesday, December 10, 2025
Every so often someone asks where the protest songs are during times of social unrest. Where are the songs commenting on social issues and fears? It occurred to me that a lot of the songs pe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMTuesday, December 9, 2025
I saw that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra had a $2 million surplus for their 2025 fiscal year ending August 31 and the largest annual ticket sales since pre-pandemic. I was curious to see…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AMTuesday, December 2, 2025
There was an opinion piece by Damien Davis on Hyperallergic last month addressing the problems with the art world which are missed or glossed over by the news that Christie’s auction house…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:02PMAbout a month ago, Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience made some suggestions for facilitating holiday season experiences based on trends they were seeing in survey dat…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:36AMThursday, November 27, 2025
Seth Godin made a post about empathy a few weeks ago that is somewhat apt for the upcoming holiday season. Every hiker is intimately aware of their backpack. They picked it out, choosing fro…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMWednesday, November 26, 2025
Maybe it is because I have had street construction occurring around my venue since February (reaching my block December 1!) but my interest was piqued when I saw a FastCompany article about …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:31AMTuesday, November 25, 2025
FastCompany recently had a post by Matt Mandrella, the music officer for Huntsville, AL advocating for cities to support house concerts as a method for stimulating economic and creative vita…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:02AMWednesday, November 19, 2025
Rainer Glaap recently linked to a story about new legislation in the UK which will prohibit selling tickets for any amount above face value. (Apparently there was discussion about capping it…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:02AMMonday, November 17, 2025
Seth Godin recently made a post about recklessness which intersected somewhat with the concept of giving permission for failure, something that is a key element to the creative process. In f…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMThursday, November 13, 2025
Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience share some of the latest data regarding how people are becoming increasingly invested in spending their free time at home. She star…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:02PMTuesday, November 11, 2025
Recently entertainment lawyer Gordon Firemark made a couple posts on Fair Use rules for creators on social media, podcasts, and films. The second one dealt with music sampling on content cre…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AMThursday, November 6, 2025
A couple weeks ago I saw a blog post from Museums as Progress talking about how staff expertise isn’t necessarily relevant to visitors. The point they made was just because expertise is im…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:06AMWednesday, November 5, 2025
Seth Godin reinforced a conversation that has been circulating in the arts world with greater vigor over the last five-six years —people have so many options these days you need to disting…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:42AMTuesday, November 4, 2025
Writing for SMU DataArts, Doug Noonan recently had a short piece about identifying gig workers and free lancers in the creative industry which are usually missed by federal surveys. He notes…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMWednesday, October 29, 2025
I have been reading and writing about Basic Guaranteed Income programs for quite a number of years. I was interested to see that Ireland decided to make their Basic Artist Income program per…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:06AMTuesday, October 28, 2025
So a little bit of good news out of Chicago. For a few years now I have been posting data showing how visitation at arts organizations compares to 2019 numbers. Some organization types are a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:42AMWednesday, October 22, 2025
Last week Alan Harrison did an analysis on Donor Advised Funds (DAF), the relative value of the funds disbursed and some of the loopholes provided by DAFs. One of the things he notes is that…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AM 
