About 10 years ago I wrote about a TED talk Jamie Bennett made where he noted it was easier for people to identify themselves with athletes based on sports they may have actively played year…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:13PMVia Artsjournal.com, a thought provoking interview with Professor Justin O’Connor, author of the book, Culture Is Not An Industry. His basic premise is that if culture was an industry, dec…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:02PMSeth Godin made a post recently that speaks to the perception you either have innate talent or you can never be successful at something. This outlook seems to operate very strongly when it c…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:42AMFreakanomics did a two part show about how the Broadway play Stereophonic came together. The first part is broadly about the 11 year creative process playwright David Adjmi went through to m…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMArtsjournal.com posted an article from The Yale Review reviewing a book about the benefits the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) brought to Depression …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54PMAmerican Theatre posted a really comprehensive article about the challenges summer theaters are facing. In the wake of social unrest resulting from things like Covid, George Floyd, and Black…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54PMBack in June there was an article on the Harvard Business Review site about 3 Ways to Compassionately Hold Your Team accountable. The authors of the piece approach the topic from the cogni…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMSeth Godin recently made a post that sort of wrapped the concepts of life long learning, creation being a process, and failure being part of any endeavor. He starts by saying Rome WAS built …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12PMEarlier this month a piece on The Conversation site called attention to the often unseen contributions roadies make to the success of festivals, concerts, and theatrical tours. There is of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:06PMThinking that free or discounted tickets will increase accessibility and loyalty is something of a pet peeve of mine. Yesterday I commented on a post Sean Kelly of Vatic made on LinkedIn whe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PMA recent post from Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS analyzes survey data that shows trust in cultural organizations has grown since the pandemic. Trust in cultural entities …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMThe Western Arts Federation (WESTAF), the regional arts organization serving the western portion of the US turns 50 this year. They put out a series of videos on the history of the organizat…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMSeth Godin made a post a week or so ago about the need to track things that are really important, but invisible to us or transpire gradually. I sense there is something valuable for arts and…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42PMBloomberg had an article on a trend that presents an opportunity for arts and cultural organizations. In some respects it could be considered rather mundane news – Gen Z Is abandoning dati…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMHere is something of a metaphoric lesson for arts and cultural organizations about changing the nature of the experience you offer to align with the needs and expectations of your customers.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:32AMI caught an interview on a National Endowment for the Arts’ podcast with Tyler Blackwell Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. Blackwell talks abou…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:03AMAmerican Theatre recently published a “Confidential Plan” written by Zelda Fichandler, founding artistic director of Arena Stage in 1968. Initially a memo written to the Arena Stage boar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:03AMAccording to a recent piece on CityLab, smaller cities and towns have much in common with smaller non-profits when it comes to applying for grants. They both have great need but lack the s…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMContinuing from yesterday’s post about the Wallace Foundation’s evaluation of their five year audience building and sustainability initiative, In Search of the Magic Bullet, the best su…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:42AMLast Monday, Ruth Hartt sent out an email newsletter noting that the Wallace Foundation’s five year, $52 million Building Audiences for Sustainability Initiative basically failed to identi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:12AMYesterday there was a report that the rate of violent crimes and some property crimes fell in the first quarter of 2024. However, that may come as weak comfort to urban based arts organiza…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24AMI saw an novel approach discussed for a concert by the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, England where the concert is performed by the audience walking to the venue. Composer Huang Ruo’s C…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PMThere is frequently talk about how the availability of arts and cultural organizations and activities are frequently a quality of life element that attract employers to communities. I got a …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24AMYou may have heard the disconcerting news that the 150 year old University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia abruptly announced their closure last week, less than a year after Pennsylvania…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AMInteresting story in Bloomberg about what some arts organizations are doing to resist being displaced by gentrification. The article focuses on Alma Weiser who formed Equity Arts as a Perp…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMAn Associated Press story (via Artsjournal.com) reports on the success the NYC Ballet has had in attracting younger audiences. Not only has the average age dropped in the last five years, …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMOne of the most common questions performers are asked after a show is, how do you remember all those lines? In a short piece on the MIT Press Reader site, John Seamon writes that the process…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:36PMSeth Godin had a post this week that serves as a good reminder to arts organizations to make your brand and experience distinctive so that audiences can’t substitute another’s experience…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AMYesterday, I mentioned some of the factors about membership/subscription benefits that Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS identified as most motivating for different generations…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMEarlier this month, Colleen Dilenschneider’s team at IMPACTS released some interesting insights about what features of memberships and subscriptions most appeal to different groups. (subsc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42PMThere is a lot of concern these days about intellectual property rights. Artists don’t want their work copied, sampled, superficially reproduced, etc., and have someone else profit off it.…
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