Thursday, May 23, 2019
There was an interesting video on Shanghaiist in the last week about a hotel whose architect designed three giant deities for the facade to combat rumors that the building was constructed on…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AMFriday, May 17, 2019
I saw an article on Gizmodo in the last couple weeks about scientists who designed 3,900 pound concrete structures that can be moved by a single person. As I read about cuts to arts in schoo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMI bookmarked a guest post on Museum 2.0 a month ago. Now I feel guilty for not circling back to it sooner. Nina Simon invited Martin Brandt Djupdræt, a manager at Danish museum, to write …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMI participated in a work session for the development of a cultural masterplan for the county today. My table was focused on ideas to attract creative professionals to the community. There wa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMThursday, May 9, 2019
You have probably heard some form of the Peter Principle expressed before. At its most cynical, it is usually defined as, “A person will be promoted to their level of incompetence.” …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:36AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
As so often is the case, Seth Godin recently made a post many elements of which are often cited as mistakes arts organizations make. It should be noted that the things Godin lists are not me…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMThursday, May 2, 2019
There was a piece on Hyperallergic last month that seemed to be continuing an ongoing conversation about the fact that most university based arts programs seem to be oriented toward training…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:24AMWhen I was looking at Arts Professional UK for yesterday’s post, I saw an article by Lucy Jamieson about rewiring your thinking. One of the things she talks about is eliminating silos both…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:24AMOn the Arts Professional UK website, Imrana Mahmood, discusses her experiences becoming a creative producer in a manner that reminded me of two other speakers/authors I often cite. Mahmood�…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:24AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
When I was at the Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit last week, one of the other participants asked if there was a way to communicate to funders that they can’t just fund a program and…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:30PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
A piece from Artsy regarding what they had learned writing 7000 bios for visual artists came across my radar a few weeks ago and I quickly tagged it as something I to which wanted to circle …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:00PMMonday, April 22, 2019
Part of last week I was attending the Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit for the South and Appalachian region. I am sorry to say that one of the biggest impressions I came away with is t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:35PMMonday, April 15, 2019
I am always up for spreading around awesome ideas that people execute. I wanted to give a shout out to my old collaborators, at the Creative Cult. They have been involved with all sorts of c…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:56PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Something I thought might be interesting to readers. The City of Douglas, GA has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to purchase and run a historical theater. You don’t see this that …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:36PMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Hate the fact that your city will provide millions to fund an arena that only gets used 20 times a year but not arts organizations that each host hundreds of events a year? Concerned that th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:30PMMonday, April 8, 2019
While I have written about this before, of late it seems that the decision to accept a donation from someone is increasingly one requiring deliberation. An article on The Conversation lays o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:34PMWednesday, April 3, 2019
One arts marketing phrase I have always hated, and thankfully I seldom see it these days, is “…illustrates what it means to be human..” I often dislike the rationale that something tel…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:21PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Okay, a little break from my weighty opining on the value and philosophy of art. I caught this on the Forbes site recently. All Nippon Airways (ANA) has employed kabuki actors to appear in t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:34PMMonday, April 1, 2019
Last month there was an article in Forbes about the benefits of field trips and arts education. It started out in a way I dislike, discussing test scores and neurological development as if a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:20PMWednesday, March 27, 2019
So given the context of all the deserved gushing over a North Bergen, NJ’s stage version of the movie Aliens with a $5,000 budget and recycled materials, Ken Davenport’s suggestion tha…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:56PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
I was half listening to a TED Talk given by Amanda Williams where she spoke about turning abandoned homes in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago into art. She would check the city’s regi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:16PMMonday, March 25, 2019
Often when we talk about arts and cultural organizations applying for grant funding, there is mention of how organizations might try to recast what they are doing in a context that makes it …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:22PMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Watching the latest webinar on the Creating Connection initiative from ArtsMidwest, I am pleased to see the progress that is being made. The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs ha…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:27PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
If you haven’t seen it already, it is worth reading Joanna Jones’ piece on Medium about how the Oakland Museum of California developed and then abandoned their social impact statement. O…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:47PMMonday, March 18, 2019
It has only been in recent years that a message of embracing and talking about our failure has been part of a public conversation among arts and cultural organizations. I am not sure how man…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:47PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
In a literal case of one person’s trash is another’s treasure, New York Times had a piece about museums grading the works in their collection to decide what to liquidate. It has long b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:24PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
There is a lot of conversation about the need for people to see themselves and their interests reflected in arts and cultural experiences if arts and cultural organizations were going to rem…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:08PMMonday, March 11, 2019
This past weekend, Artsjournal.com had a number of articles on the benefits of the arts. One in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette asked if Mozart could make you a better runner. The basis of the a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42PMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Four years ago, I wrote about how the government of India, in an attempt to end public defecation by 2019, was building over 1 million toilet facilities in households around the country. How…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:58PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
I was really excited today when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the headline, “Diversity organisation celebrates placing 1000th paid intern.” The concept that some entity was able to…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:40PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Seth Godin had an interesting post recently challenging the notion of passion preceding the decision to commit. “Offer me something I’m passionate about and I’ll show up with all of my…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:21PM 
