I think Art in Public Places staff for any community have one of the most difficult jobs in the arts, particularly when it comes to public perception of the job they do. While everyone acc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:02AMI came across a link to a post on the Alliance of American Art Museums website about the Clyfford Still Museum’s efforts to make their facility a welcoming option for bringing kids as youn…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06AMOne thing I like about Broadway producer Ken Davenport is that he is constantly trying to identify barriers to attending shows on Broadway. Not just his, but any show. He has the rising tide…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PMIn a recent episode of Quick Study, Sunil Iyengar, director of research and analysis here at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), notes that the arts community, including the NEA, toss…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMAnother post I wanted to make to get people thinking and doing things differently for 2024 is based again on research Collen Dilenschneider and the IMPACTS team have done. As I mentioned in …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMOkay, to start 2024 off with something to ponder for the whole year, I want to direct you to a piece I wrote on ArtsHacker a couple weeks ago about how your definition of entertaining as an …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:32AMYou probably aren’t searching the Interwebs for trenchant observations on arts administration the day after Christmas. But still, you can learn a little something from some entertaining vi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMAs we move through the middle of the holiday season, it seems like a good opportunity to remind people to do a little due diligence so they don’t fall prey to some charity scams. Back in…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMLast month there was an interesting story in the Washington Post about the $220 million bequest left to NPR 20 years ago by Joan Kroc, widow of former McDonalds CEO Ray Kroc. What I found …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PMBroadway Producer Ken Davenport posted last week about The Broadway League’s attendance report for the 2022-2023 season. The 2022-2023 season was the first period in which a full season …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:02PMDid you know according to surveys conducted a few months ago, the most entertaining performance based organization in the world is the Sydney Opera House, followed by the Hollywood Bowl and …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 10:07AMAt various times I, and others like Drew McManus have written about the importance of having a good crisis communication plan. The marketing department should be focused on more than just …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMTyler Cowen, the economist who write the Marginal Revolution blog linked to an interesting paper from 2014, Corporate Governance Without Shareholders: A Cautionary Lesson from Non-Profit Org…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AMI had to cackle when I saw this post by jazz critic and music historian, Ted Gioia: I'm not sure whether I'm depressed by the AARP sponsoring the Stones, or applaud it as the obvious move. B…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42PMI am always interested in news about how donor advised funds (DAF) are operating. On the whole, their use hasn’t gone as intended and they have reduced, rather than increased or incentiviz…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36PMWhen I saw a link on Artsjournal.com to a research study on PLOS One exploring the link between music and morality, I was half expecting to discover that evil people do prefer classical musi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMA couple weeks ago, New Zealand’s Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) proudly announced that the GDP growth for the Arts and Creativity Sector was nearly double that of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMApropos to my post yesterday about Richmond Ballet dancers suing the organization for exerting so much pressure about their weight, there was another story a couple weeks ago that I forgot w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:02PMLast week Artsjournal.com linked to an article that may represent a significant continuation in the discussion about body weight expectations in ballet and dance in general. Two Richmond B…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:36AMChad Bauman, Executive Director at Milwaukee Rep made a post on LinkedIn today where he acknowledged that making a change in a business model can threaten the existence of an organization, b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AMI usually don’t advocate for specific shows on the blog here, but I recently presented a group whose format really lends itself to a variety of audience engagement opportunities you may dr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42AMWell apparently my optimism about the direction of the Indianapolis Museum at Newfields was a little premature. In late September I wrote about how the museum had just hired. Belinda Tate, a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42AMLong time readers will be aware that I have been keeping an eye on guaranteed basic income programs in different communities, especially those that are designed to benefit artists. Recently …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42AMI believe it was Artsjournal.com that shared a story a week or so ago about the Philadelphia Inquirer’s attempt to increase subscriptions and engage a younger audience with an ad campaign …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:06AMSunil Iyengar who directs the research arm of the National Endowment for the Arts recently posted on the idea of arts experiences as one way for individuals to create connections with others…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:36AMSo as much as we may think that we need to find new strategies and tactics to engage with audiences, a lot of times we are reinventing or rediscovering approaches that were ignored in favor …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:32AMA couple weeks ago, Rainer Glaap posted a link to a news story about people in Germany advocating for unisex restrooms. It wasn’t so much about wanting to provide spaces for people ident…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:37PMThe China Project recently spotlighted Taylor Swift’s amazing fluency in speaking Mandarin Chinese. It is amazing to think she is able to gain this level of proficiency while attending to …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:13AMI recently saw a link on a CityLab story noting that since the end of Covid restrictions, people appear to be less willing to venture outside of familiar neighborhoods and locales. As of lat…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:13AMWhile it has sort of been generally known that visitors to arts and cultural organizations aren’t fully aware of whether the organization is a non-profit or not, Colleen Dilenschneider rec…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 12:14PMI recently saw an article about the Portland Art Museum essentially firing all their volunteer docents by email in favor of paid students with a suggestion that the docents weren’t diverse…
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