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 12:54AMBy 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 12:32AMThanks 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 11:06PMWhen 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 04:42PMA 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 10:06PMYou 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 02:12AMThe 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 01:54AMThis 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 01:36AMVia 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 11:24PMBeing 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 11:02PMHyperallergic had an article about how artists can get a public/private art commission. Paddy Johnson responds saying “…there are so many ways to get commissions, yet so few shared resou…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:30PMBack in February, Bloomberg had a story about a housing project proposed in an old police station in Silver Springs, MD where the desire for affordable housing and artist housing was bridged…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:47PMLast week, Sunil Iyengar, Director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was on the NEA’s Quick Study podcast (transcript) talking about the state of the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:55PMBusy into the evening tonight so I thought these brief thoughts from New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael, shared by Isaac Butler might be a good subject to ponder. The no-talent has as much …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:53PMWhile it has only been about six months since I shared a story about the Philadelphia based project DanceLogic which teaches girls to code through choreography, I saw another piece recently …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:01PMRainer Glaap recently posted a story about Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s (German Opera on the Rhein) partnership with Vodaphone to offer augmented information about the opera’s production of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:05PMAbout six months ago I drew attention to Vu Le’s humorous recasting of Greek myths with non-profit themes. I was delighted when he released his next installment this week adapting six more…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:47PMA couple months back, Arts Professional had an article by Jonathan Vaughan, Principal of Guildhall School of Music & Drama, asking if “artistic citizenship” could be taught. Defining…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:51PMInteresting article on Slate today written by Patrick Vala-Haynes, who teaches stage combat to middle and high school age students. If you aren’t familiar with the practice, stage combat t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:26PMLast month CNBC had a profile of an assistant company manager working on the Broadway show “& Juliet.” If you don’t know what a company manager on a theatrical production does,…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:48PMI was listening to an episode of the Code Switch podcast this weekend while I was out walking. The topic was about how merengue was the basis for a culture war in Puerto Rico. What, at fir…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:15PMIn a case of “not something I had imagined”, the Birmingham Royal Ballet recently decided to create a ballet set to the music of Black Sabbath, who got their start in the city. Lead guit…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:00PMThis Facebook post about the Failure Award Scholarship immediately caught my eye this morning. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver is looking for creative Colorado seniors to apply to their …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:44PMI saw this tweet the beginning of the month and was engaged by the idea of video game inspired tourism. The video game Fallout76 is set in a post apocalyptic rendering of WV, much of it imma…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36PMThe last few months I have been seeing a number of stories about audiences in UK theaters being abusive toward staff and other patrons. A week or so ago, The Stage reported that Edinburgh Pl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:40PMYou may have recently seen that MTV and the Hirshhorn Museum are teaming up to create a TV series to find the next great visual artist. As soon as I saw this, I recalled that there had been …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:14PMYou may have seen that the AMC movie chain decided to implement tiered pricing for their theaters with higher prices for preferred seating and lower pricing for less desirable front row seat…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:14PMI was not keeping close tabs on the topics President Biden was expected to cover in the State of the Union so it was a coincidence that yesterday’s post was about exorbitant add on fees on…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:43PMWith people feeling more comfortable going to public events again, the travails consumers suffer when trying to purchase tickets are coming front and center. Last week TicketNews reported th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:43PMMany readers know that I recently moved from Macon, GA to take up a job in Colorado. Even before I moved, I was astounded by the number of articles that were being written about Macon, encou…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:08PMBig news out of Australia where the first national arts policy since 2013 was announced. In addition to commitments of funding to specific entities and organizations, arguably the most sig…
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