We often hear about how scientific geniuses had an arts related hobby that contributed to their process, (Eisenstein and his violin are mentioned a lot), but we rarely get any detailed insig…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMIf you hadn’t caught the news in the last week, there is a major crisis at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago which saw the mass resignation of their current cohort of resident artists. Th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AMVia Artsjournal.com was a Chalkbeat story about DanceLogic, a program in Philadelphia “designed to educate, inspire, and cultivate girls of color in STEM.” The premise: Both coding an…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:37PM” Older audiences will only be around so long. If you teach the rising generation that the theatrical experience is completely extraneous, that experience probably won’t be around for th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PMA link to a video presentation about a study the Michigan Arts and Culture Council commissioned of SMU DataArts popped up in my feed last week. I am not sure what inspired me to listen all t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMThe Artsjournal daily newsletter today linked to a Smithsonian Institution article using the title “Warm-Up Vocal Exercises From Three Very Different Classical Singing Disciplines.” Fr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:07AMEarlier this month Vu Le of the Non Profit AF blog linked to a piece reporting that Donor Advised Funds (DAF) had surpassed charities as recipients of charitable revenue. The problem with …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48AMThis post might go a bit on the cerebral side, but bear with me it should go along pretty quickly. Thanks to Marginal Revolution blog I learned that top MBA programs have a policy of grade n…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48AMBack in March I made a post about an artist’s project in Pittsburgh that called attention to the disparity in appraisals between White homeowners and Black homeowners. In a story of art …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PMI have read a fair number of articles about transitioning problematic board members off a board, but I have to credit Vu Le for laying out a relatively detailed process for accomplishing the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PMI had planned to write about something different today but this post by Ruth Hartt on LinkedIn grabbed my attention. Cain Lewis goes on to talk about how he doesn’t care about Airbnb: So t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:37AMWhenever I have visited a museum that forces you to go through the gift shop before you can exit, I have viewed the design as a cynical cash grab. As I think about it, while I have frequentl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMVia the Marginal Revolution blog I came across a piece analyzing the economics of stadium naming. The basic conclusion was that if you see a corporation buying naming rights for a stadiu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AMI know for a fact that for at least 30 years now, market textbooks and classes have made the distinction between marketing and advertising/promotion the first definition provided. That has…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AMI caught a story on NPR’s Marketplace yesterday that discussed the way airlines use premium seating. One of the people interviewed mentioned that airlines craftily use the separation of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PMThere was an article on The Conversation website back in March by Elisabeth Gruner discussing how she stopped giving grades on student papers in favor of comments and wished she had done so …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PMAbout three months ago I mentioned that we were having a concert filmed for public television in our venue. We recently got word that it will make its broadcast debut on Georgia Public Broad…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:33AMSeth Godin recently made a post with a suggestion that runs counter to concept that arts organizations need to broaden their audience. He has made posts throughout the years about attracti…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMSo hat tip to Roger Tomlinson who made a social media post calling attention to “A Manager’s Guide to Helping Teams Face Down Uncertainty, Burnout and Perfectionism“ It appears it…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMFor years now I have been following and writing on the Culture Track survey. At one time the survey was being conducted every three years or so in order to measure changing trends and at…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:37PMThere is a saying among those who work in the technical side of live theatre and events that if someone notices what is going on, you are doing your job wrong. The idea is that for the mos…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:33PMSeth Godin recently made a post on one of my favorite topics — valuing metrics that don’t really matter. Just because they’re easy to measure doesn’t mean they matter. […] If you�…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:07PMArtsjournal had recently included a link to a Guardian article reporting that people working in performing arts are twice as likely as the general population to experience depression. This…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AMSeth Godin made a post about leveraging the power of word of mouth by incentivizing sharing with friends. Krispy Kreme grew to become a doughnut behemoth in the US. The formula was simple: S…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMSo I saw the recent Dr. Strange movie this weekend and one of the biggest takeaways I had (no spoilers) was that classical music is powerful no matter what universe you are in. Though, like …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:03PMI am always interested in seeing the novel approaches people employ to present performances. I happened to catch a story last week on Vice about a guy who is bringing pop up movie experience…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:03AMSome notable news via American Theatre, for those who have found it difficult to heed Polonius’ advice of “neither a borrower nor lender be.” (aka pretty much all of us) The Acting C…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:54PMThere was a story last month on Nieman Lab looking at how successful a tax credit for digital news subscriptions has been in Canada. The intent was to help news organizations stay in busin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:18AMScott Walters made a Twitter post yesterday that suggested organizations start their existence with a Quality of Life Statement rather than Mission Statement or Values Statement. Intrigued…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:33AMThe folks on the Non-Profit Happy Hour Facebook group posted a link to a Ohio State University (I’m sorry, THE Ohio State University) post which claims that charities should not use the wo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMApparently the pandemic was good for classical music stations. In a story on the Current site, the general manager WDAV in Charlotte, NC had a hard time believing his station had achieved nu…
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