This past Friday, February 23 marked the 20th anniversary of this blog. While Drew McManus often remembers the anniversary better than I do, I did recall the anniversary was coming up prior …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:02PMI was walking through a building lobby when I noticed a table with a pamphlet discouraging people from painting murals on their brick buildings. My first thought was that this city departmen…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PMSeth Godin recently made a post citing a Brookings Institution survey series that showed a decline in confidence in multiple institutions and companies since 2018. Godin notes that some …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AMSo hattip to Ruth Hartt who linked to a piece by David Taylor who argues that we shouldn’t be linking the lack of music education in schools to diminishing audiences for classical music. H…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PMI happened across an Aeon article earlier this month featuring a video by the Victoria and Albert Museum displaying and discussing Valentine’s Day. I thought folks might enjoy learning abo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:36AMArtsjournal.com linked to a Hudson Review piece by poet and former NEA Chair, Dana Gioia, talking about how he became entranced by opera and classical music as a child, but realized it was n…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:32PMOne of the ways communities are using arts and creativity to revitalize buildings and downtown districts are murals on buildings. However, not all surfaces are suited for murals. The best in…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMLast August, I called attention to the dwindling number of qualified piano tuners posing a threat to arts organizations’ ability to host concerts. Along those same lines, Artsjournal.com…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PMLast month Drew McManus posted on ArtsHacker warning about changes that Yahoo and Gmail are implementing this month that will shunt a greater number of emails to spam folders unless you take…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PMI was kinda thrilled to hear the melodious voice of conductor Bill Eddins on the Marketplace Morning Report this morning. Bill had written the Sticks and Drones blog here on Inside the Arts …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMYesterday I cited a Seth Godin post about rethinking how we measure work productivity. Around the same time he made a post along the same lines noting that while strictly following instruc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMLong time readers know that I resist the use of economic impact as a measure of value for arts and culture for many reasons. The late potter-philosopher Carter Gillies was really effective i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AMJust before Christmas Broadway producer Ken Davenport called attention to an issue which may or may not impact Broadway attendance starting later this year. Starting this Spring, congestion …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMTitle of the post today is intentionally leveraging a statement in a study conducted by Jennifer Novak-Leonard and Rachel Skaggs for the National Endowment for the Arts of public perception …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48PMLast week, NPR Reporter Andrew Limbong interviewed Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again. Limbong observed that while he has the impulse to roll his eyes at th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:36PMI came across a study conducted by researchers at Drexel University , (well one is an alum that teaches at University of San Diego), on whether using the self-checkout lane at a supermarket …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PMBack in November, I had written about allegations of harassment by the administration of the Cleveland Ballet of one of their teachers due to body weight issues. I thought that would more or…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:48AMLong time readers know I tend to pay attention to news about guaranteed basic income programs, particularly those that have artists as a target group. Thanks to a CityLab link to a story on …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:36PMI think Art in Public Places staff for any community have one of the most difficult jobs in the arts, particularly when it comes to public perception of the job they do. While everyone acc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:02AMI came across a link to a post on the Alliance of American Art Museums website about the Clyfford Still Museum’s efforts to make their facility a welcoming option for bringing kids as youn…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06AMOne thing I like about Broadway producer Ken Davenport is that he is constantly trying to identify barriers to attending shows on Broadway. Not just his, but any show. He has the rising tide…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PMIn a recent episode of Quick Study, Sunil Iyengar, director of research and analysis here at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), notes that the arts community, including the NEA, toss…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMAnother post I wanted to make to get people thinking and doing things differently for 2024 is based again on research Collen Dilenschneider and the IMPACTS team have done. As I mentioned in …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMOkay, to start 2024 off with something to ponder for the whole year, I want to direct you to a piece I wrote on ArtsHacker a couple weeks ago about how your definition of entertaining as an …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:32AMYou probably aren’t searching the Interwebs for trenchant observations on arts administration the day after Christmas. But still, you can learn a little something from some entertaining vi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMAs we move through the middle of the holiday season, it seems like a good opportunity to remind people to do a little due diligence so they don’t fall prey to some charity scams. Back in…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMLast month there was an interesting story in the Washington Post about the $220 million bequest left to NPR 20 years ago by Joan Kroc, widow of former McDonalds CEO Ray Kroc. What I found …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PMBroadway Producer Ken Davenport posted last week about The Broadway League’s attendance report for the 2022-2023 season. The 2022-2023 season was the first period in which a full season …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:02PMDid you know according to surveys conducted a few months ago, the most entertaining performance based organization in the world is the Sydney Opera House, followed by the Hollywood Bowl and …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 10:07AMAt various times I, and others like Drew McManus have written about the importance of having a good crisis communication plan. The marketing department should be focused on more than just …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMTyler Cowen, the economist who write the Marginal Revolution blog linked to an interesting paper from 2014, Corporate Governance Without Shareholders: A Cautionary Lesson from Non-Profit Org…
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