Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Museums As Progress sponsored a talk with John Falk today on a chapter from his upcoming book Leaning Into Value: Becoming a User-Focused Museum. The chapter addressed the value of data to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Ruth Hartt had reposted an Observer debating what sort of information and how much makes for a good museum label. It immediately occurred to me that this can be a tall order based on the fac…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMTuesday, October 22, 2024
It has been a few years since I posted anything about the Wormfarm Institute so I was happy to read a Hyperallergic post via Artsjournal.com about Wormfarm’s annual Farm/Art D’tour whi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:42PMMonday, October 21, 2024
At one of my previous positions, I had started a conversation with a local storytelling group about partnering on a curated storytelling series. This conversation happened a month before the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PMThursday, October 17, 2024
Daniel J. Levitin had a piece in The Walrus this month where he goes on at length about how music is therapy. In the middle of the article were a couple paragraphs that suggested the dividin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Dave Wakeman’s appearance on Angela Meleca’s ARTS Redefined podcast was making the rounds of LinkedIn last week. One section in particular where Wakeman discussed his opposition to disco…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:48PMLast month, the Bloemencorso Zundert, caught my attention. It is the largest flower parade in the world held in Zundert, Netherlands. Twenty hamlets compete to have their parade float judged…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts asked a number of different people to respond to the 2022 Surveys of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). One of those asked to respond was Everette T…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMTuesday, October 8, 2024
Pretty interesting article on The Conversation about how different types of music can help or hinder cognitive activity. The target audience for the article it primarily students in relation…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMMonday, October 7, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts recently released data showing that the number of adults and children (most of the data from surveys of 9 and 13 year olds) has been decreasing over the l…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMThursday, October 3, 2024
h/t to my friend Tonja Khabir for linking to a CNN piece about Yamilée Toussaint, the founder of STEM for Dance, a program which integrates dance with STEM subjects to encourage girls of co…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AMWednesday, October 2, 2024
In honor of former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday, I thought I would share a piece that appeared in ArtsATL about Carter’s interaction and appreciation for the arts. The article…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:03AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
Over the last decade or so, I have been pleased to periodically read articles about people taking up dance classes as adults. As someone who advocates for people to recognize they have the c…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMThursday, September 26, 2024
Seth Godin recently wrote that while many professions are just as important as they were 30-50 years ago, the basic skills required for those professions have changed. Pharmacists no longe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:54AMWednesday, September 25, 2024
h/t Artsjournal.com which posted a story about the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s (GPAC) heartfelt admission that it hadn’t been an effective administrator of arts programs. CEO Patri…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:32AMTuesday, September 24, 2024
I have made a number of posts over the years on the practice of contextomy which is the practice of selectively editing quotes, often in connection with movie and show reviews, to make it ap…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:12AMTuesday, September 17, 2024
Seth Godin recently made a post in which he stated the following: The end of the trail is usually difficult, but without the long and winding approach, there isn’t much of a mountain. The …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48PMMonday, September 16, 2024
There was some disappointing news a week or so ago when the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) announced the sunsetting after 28 years of the National Theater Project and National Da…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:32PMWednesday, September 11, 2024
Hyperallergic wrote about the ending of the pilot phase of Springboard for the Arts’ Guaranteed Basic Income project last month. I have been following the project since it was launched i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36PMArtNews had a piece last month examining the world of Immersive Art shows. You may have seen ads for these events which animate the works of Van Gogh or Monet and project them on the walls…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMAndrew Taylor recently wrote on a topic I haven’t covered in some time – exploiting the passions of arts and cultural staff and creatives. He points out that a lot of non-profits of al…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMTuesday, September 3, 2024
The Conversation recently had an article by Will Shüler examining the strict enforcement of a no cameras policy at a theater production he attended. When he arrived, ushers put a sticker ov…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36PMWednesday, August 28, 2024
Yesterday I saw a post on LinkedIn where Ruth Hartt was reinforcing the idea that people purchase the outcomes they desire rather than things. In response, commenter Jay Gerhart wrote: Remin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMTuesday, August 27, 2024
As always, Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS provided some attention worthy data in July regarding perceptions of the value of paying for museum and performing arts tickets. Ba…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:48PMIn another refutation of the argument that we should stop funding libraries because no one reads books, on Friday there was a public radio piece from Marketplace illustrating the increased r…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMWednesday, August 21, 2024
A miscellaneous bit of interesting information – I recently saw a job posting for the executive director of the Cultural Institutions Retirement System (CIRS). I was totally unaware of the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMTuesday, August 20, 2024
You may have heard that museums in Vienna, Austria offered free admission to Taylor Swift fans who were faced with the cancellation of the concerts due to terroristic threats. My one quibble…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
Interesting story via Artsjournal.com that might provide a rough roadmap for arts organizations looking to change the programming mix they offer the community. The public broadcaster of No…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:42PMMonday, August 12, 2024
An article on Hyperallergic by Lise Ragbir observed that DEI hiring initiatives have started to wane in both the commercial and non-profit sector. There were a number of high profile, highly…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:05PMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Last month I pointed to research by Colleen Dilenschenider that indicated trust in cultural non-profits has grown since around 2019. Non-profit Quarterly (NPQ) had a short article about simi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:52PMMonday, August 5, 2024
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 08:13PM 
