Thursday, 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 01:18AMMonday, October 20, 2025
Oregon Arts Watch (h/t Artsjournal.com) provided some insight into a state advocacy group’s two year plan to propose a redesign of the state’s funding arts model in light of the national…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48PMThursday, October 16, 2025
The National Independent Venue Association released the results of their first survey showing the economic impact of independent venues in each of the 50 states and Washington D.C.. The info…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:06AMWednesday, October 15, 2025
For two weekends this month, the local Creative District is operating their annual artist studio tours. There are other associated activities, but the artists’ opening their spaces for peo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:36AMTuesday, October 14, 2025
About twice a month Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience release some interesting data they have compiled about trends they are seeing that may impact arts and cultural…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18AMWednesday, October 8, 2025
Tyler Cowen of the Marginal Revolution blog posted a short video meant as a preview of a long movie project discussing how we have eliminated ordinary beauty from our lives in the name of ef…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PMOver the last two years I have been monitoring the story of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony which abruptly declared bankruptcy taking the musicians who had just negotiated a raise completely…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMTuesday, October 7, 2025
Last week, the Arts Management program at American University released a series of video interviews with the former chairs of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) on the occasion of the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42AMTuesday, September 30, 2025
Hyperallergic had a story about a couple casino developers who offered to build museums as part of a bid open some casinos in NYC. According to the story, one would have developed a $15 mill…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMMonday, September 29, 2025
I have been holding an article in reserve for quite awhile as I waited for the Halloween season to roll around. 10 years ago this week Atlas Obscura had an article about why theaters place g…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PMWednesday, September 24, 2025
Economist Tyler Cowen was interviewed by his colleague Alex Taborrak about Cowen’s 1998 book, In Praise of Commercial Culture . (Transcript) Apparently this was the book that put Cowen on…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AMWednesday, September 17, 2025
This seems to be the week for pictures on the old blog. About a month ago I wrote about an effort to use art projects to mitigate the impact of road construction occurring across five blocks…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AMMonday, September 15, 2025
I have written a number of posts in the last year about the value of labels in exhibits. There are a number of people who don’t think they are of much use visitors. The opinions of those w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42PMThursday, September 11, 2025
Earlier this summer Colorado Public Radio (CPR) ran a story about how high school theater teachers are focusing instruction on the technical aspects of their discipline in order to tap into …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:03AM 
