Wednesday, August 7, 2019
After I posted last week about how English towns installation of chat benches aligned with other stories I had covered about organizations trying to create personal connections between stran…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMThursday, August 1, 2019
I so frequently tell my readers that Collen Dilenschneider has made an awesome post on her blog that it makes it difficult to convey the increased urgency to read one of her pieces when she …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
I came across an article about English towns that are installing “chat benches” with signs saying, “The ‘Happy to Chat’ Bench: Sit Here If You Don’t Mind Someone Stopping To Sa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48AMMonday, July 29, 2019
When the topic of strategic plans is discussed, there is often an admonishment actively reference the planning documents throughout the plan period rather than drop it on the shelf until it …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PMFriday, July 26, 2019
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com which posted an NPR story about libraries that are bringing social workers on staff. The main reason is that libraries are serving the role as a community resource…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:35AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
On Saturday, the Knight Foundation will be issuing a call “for ideas exploring how arts institutions can present immersive experiences to engage audiences” (disclosure: Knight Foundation…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:42AMTuesday, July 23, 2019
Via the Marginal Revolution blog, I caught this link to an interesting Financial Times article (registration required) discussing how classical music is at a disadvantage on streaming servic…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
I saw a really cool story via Americans for the Arts in May about a partnership between the Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System. Th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PMIf you don’t already read Drew McManus’ blog Adaptistration, you may want to take a look some of his recent posts as well as the conversation on Facebook that ensued. Drew started out ye…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMTuesday, July 16, 2019
When I caught the name, “Penis Monologues” out of the corner of my eye, I felt a moment of trepidation that some men’s rights group was mounting a show as an aggressive counter to the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMWednesday, July 10, 2019
There was an article in Forbes last month about the glut of empty museums in China. While many museums in the United States have larger collections than they can possibly display, storing th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMMy summer vacation this year took me back to China. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to meet with China arts administrators on this trip, though I did try to secure some introductions and arran…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24AMMonday, July 8, 2019
A couple weeks back, Slate had a long form article on people using beta-blockers to help with nervousness and stage fright. Just seeing the title, I immediately recalled a piece Drew McManus…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:06PMWednesday, July 3, 2019
This will be the last retrospective post of the series covering the time I am on vacation. I should be back at the helm Monday, hopefully with pictures and thoughts to share. I am writing th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54AMApparently I watched a lot of TED Talks in 2009 as this seemed to be recurring element in my retrospective posts these couple of weeks. However, this is one I have remembered clearly for the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AMSo 2009 was long before ArtsMidwest started their Creating Connection initiative and before I started my correspondence with Carter Gillies regarding the value of the arts, but I found a blo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Over 9 years ago I wrote about a TED Talk given by Golan Levin where he was demonstrating technology that being used to generate images based on sound input. The things he was doing was fun …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:33PMTuesday, June 25, 2019
I wrote last week about how small nuances that alter our perception of a situation can make a big difference. Back in 2009 I wrote another post along the same lines featuring a TED talk by…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AMMonday, June 24, 2019
As I was looking back in the archives for content to post on while on vacation, I was surprised to see that I was writing back the dangers of the sentiment that “arts organizations should …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
I am going on vacation for a couple weeks so the blog will be featuring some interesting posts from the archives. Back in 2009 I wrote a lengthy article about a Mad Men episode where the ad …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48PMSeth Godin had a post recently where he made the distinction between education and learning. The way he differentiated the two was that education is based in compliance and authority–you…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, June 18, 2019
If you didn’t happen to see it rolling around social media or on Artsjournal.com last week, Carolina Performing Arts’ festival, The Commons, experimented with a new model of criticism. …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42AMAround 1600 Shakespeare wrote about brevity being the soul of wit in Hamlet. Roughly 400 years later, phone text messaging and Twitter limited us to the number of characters one could post…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Economist Alex Tabarrok recently made an interesting post on Baumol’s cost disease. The concept usually explained by noting that since it doesn’t take any less time to perform a string…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com who listed an article from The Conversation about how your phone can interrupt a concert experience. Author Christine Van Winkle discusses research she and her tea…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48AMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Seth Godin recently wrote a lengthy post on the subject of apologies. He addresses the issue of entities providing insufficient apologies but also the expectation of restitution which is o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:06AMFriday, June 7, 2019
All right. A little gripe time here. I have been nursing a sense of dissatisfaction for a couple weeks now but it sort of came to a head when I saw the title of Ceci Dadisman’s recent post…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:48AMWednesday, June 5, 2019
There is often conversation about how people employed in arts and cultural pursuits overwork themselves (or are overworked) and are seeking to throttle things back to achieve a work-life bal…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:42AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
A confluence of events and information made me realize that it might be time to revisit the subject of one of my favorite posts. Last week I was talking to one of my staff about who to inclu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:18AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
I recently wrote a piece for ArtsHacker about the emerging role of intimacy direction for productions on stage and screen. When I first read about intimacy direction a few years ago, it wa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Big tip of the hat to Sarah Carleton for tweeting about research that proves what we long suspected — people are more likely to exploit the labor of those viewed as pursuing their passions…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PM 
