Monday, March 19, 2018
Though it was only a week ago, I can’t quite recall where I came across a link to Ozan Varol’s post, “Stop asking children these seven questions (and ask these instead)R…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:15PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
I recently had a piece on ArtsHacker addressing questions about copyright which I see as a complement to an earlier piece I wrote for ArtsHacker that directed readers to tools that can help …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:32PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Last week CityLab wrote about the European Union’s plan to offer 18 year old residents a free 30 day Interrail pass this summer. What this means is that potentially 20,000-30,000 tee…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:31PMMonday, March 12, 2018
One of the toughest tasks when it comes to programming for a performing arts venue is trying to bring new experiences to the community that audiences will attend in large enough numbers to m…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:30PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
If you want a lesson in the power of custom and pricing psychology winning over objectively better options, check out this New Yorker piece on failed attempts by restaurants to eliminate tip…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:29PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
When Daniel Pink tweets that choral singing might be the new exercise, you know I have to investigate even if it is just clickbait. There seems to be some scientific basis to the claim, howe…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:41PMVia Artsjournal.com is a piece from the Brookings Institution titled, “An unexpectedly positive result from arts-focused field trips.” After crunching some numbers as part of res…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:23AMRecently the Harvard Law School’s Technology and Intellectual Property Legal Clinic recently published a really helpful guide to copyright, trademark and intellectual property rights. …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMThursday, March 1, 2018
Yesterday I noted that I was interested to learn that $5 million in revenue was something of a dividing line between theaters which supported themselves primarily by ticket revenue (above $5…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:23AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Rob Meiksins had a piece on Non-Profit Quarterly that discussed what the non-profit Second Stage Theater’s recent ownership of the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway might portend in term…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:22PMThe Guardian had a long read piece on focus groups earlier this month. As I was reading, about how the companies commissioning the focus groups had difficulty accepting the results, I was st…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:52AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
For about a month now I have been pondering a post Seth Godin made about the limits of empathy and how it might apply to customer relations in an performing arts setting. In the context of a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:19PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
A heads up to people who have, (or know people with), innovative ideas using technology to connect people with arts and culture, the Knight Foundation is looking for project ideas via the Kn…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:35PMMonday, February 19, 2018
I have been cautioning the non-profit arts community about citing the economic value of the arts for over a decade now. The first time was in 2007. I wrote about it a few times in the interi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:16PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Generous donations to a non-profit can often become more of a burden than a blessing which is why it is important to have a good donation policy and properly evaluate the impact of the donat…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:28PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Ken Davenport made a post last month about the way the New York City subway system is shifting their practice. Since more subway riders are able to pay for rides with their credit cards and …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:11PMThe importance of transition planning is a common topic of discussion for non-profits given current and anticipated retirements. A few years ago we offered a set of guidelines for planning t…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:21PMMonday, February 12, 2018
In a recent “Taking Note”, National Endowment for the Arts’ Director of Research & Analysis, Sunil Iyengar mentioned that in the coming year the NEA will commission…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:26PMWednesday, February 7, 2018
Via Marginal Revolution comes a study about the high levels of creativity in Iceland where: ….1 in 10 adults in the country have published a book, why playing in a band is considered…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:09PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Thanks to a partnership between the Akron Art Museum and the Akron-Summit County Public Library, not only can you get a book to place on the nightstand beside your bed, you can also get a pa…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:25PMMonday, February 5, 2018
The video of ArtPlace America’s CEO Jamie Bennett’s keynote at an Invest Health convening came across my feed recently. What I found valuable in his speech was that he laid out…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:12PMWednesday, January 31, 2018
A job listing for a Program Manager at the Armed Services Arts Partnership came across my social media feed today. I might not have followed the link except that I was curious what type of w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:02PMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Gotta give a shout out to Non-Profit Quarterly for putting up two theatre related articles yesterday. I wanted to call attention to it to show appreciation for to them for covering arts conc…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:35PMMonday, January 29, 2018
It probably isn’t news to anyone these days that popular culture can influence what people perceive to be factual information. While there is a lot of controversy over the intentiona…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:37PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
If you keep hearing how great Finland is, the results they are having might be due, in part, to the problem solving processes they are using. The city of Helsinki developed a board game to f…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:27PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
If you are like me, you have been excited by the increased quantity and quality of research being made available about arts and culture issues and practices! Even if you aren’t as exci…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:37PMOne of the more positive developments in the last decade or so has been the increased investment in research about factors that impact arts and cultural organizations. Even better news, in…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMMonday, January 22, 2018
The Conversation recently had an article about a study that purports to show why some people are more creative than others. The study performed fMRI scans on people while asking them to unde…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:21PMWednesday, January 17, 2018
The “Why Won’t Broadway Livestream/Broadcast” argument has been going on for awhile now but a recent article on Fast Company suggests that time may be drawing near as Netfl…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:02PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival just started a couple weeks ago. Despite temperatures which hover in the -20s, they are expecting about 1.5 million visitors before the festiva…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:59PMWednesday, January 10, 2018
Apropos of my post on Monday about physical objects being valued more than digital copies, there was a fairly long piece in The Guardian about how a paperless society hasn’t been achie…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:55PM 
