All articles by Joe Patti
Access to experts and leadership is an important membership benefit according to data collected by Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience. (sub required) The top ranked b…
Chorus America recently turned a website design presentation Drew McManus did at their recent conference into an article on their site. I have been reading Drew’s advice on webpage design …
You may have noticed the blog was quiet for a couple weeks. A family member had asked that I take them to China this summer so I was out of the country. I hadn’t intended to post any pictu…
A post Seth Godin made has been percolating around in my brain for the last three months. “I can’t imagine eating durian ice cream,” is not the same as “no one likes durian ice cream…
Last November I had written about Huntsville, AL efforts to support the local music scene on a pretty granular level – house concerts in the city’s neighborhoods. The city was providing …
Despite the concern that Artificial Intelligence will replace us all, there are still employers who are worried that their employees don’t possess the required skills. An article on The Co…
A little hat tip to Artsjournal.com for sharing a link to an article about class at Stanford University titled “Dance 123: Hot Mess & Deliberate Failure as Practice.“ The course cata…
Last week I made a post about free admission not being enough to garner attendance at museums and that programming appropriately for target audiences also being necessary. The very next day,…
Some students at Miami University did something last month I have been watching to see for a long time. They made an argument for the value of art to a governmental entity without using econ…
Creative West had a story about an accessibility aid I had no idea existed —color correction lenses for people with colorblindness. The lenses don’t completely provide an accurate viewin…
About a week ago The Art Newspaper had an article on the debate about free admission at US museums. There are a lot of factors discussed but one of the things that caught my eye was the sugg…
Seth Godin made a post about price and its relation to value and story rather than cost of production. I am excerpting heavily here because he says a lot of things about price, but I have a …
Last week a colleague had posted on LinkedIn about a secret pop-up concert Phoebe Bridgers had conducted in one of her venues. She had mentioned that people’s phones were stored away in ma…
Seth Godin made a recent post about hotel night clerks. He noted that while they often have the highest number of customer interactions, especially with those that may be experiencing a degr…
Over the years I have written a lot about the various schemes people have used to acquire tickets, resell tickets, scam people by offering tickets they don’t possess. Ticketing sites and g…
The Associated Press had a story about adults returning to the band camps of their youths. This is both literally the case with places like Interlochen Center for the Arts where people who a…
ARTNews recently noted that Cleveland (OH) arts organizations have benefited from a share of a tax on cigarettes implemented for that purpose in 2007. In fact, the funding distributed from t…
A little more information about A-Corporations I wrote about last month. Paddy Johnson writing for Hyperallergic had a little more detail and insight into how the corporate structure might b…
So a bit of a light-hearted follow up on yesterday’s post about states making laws to combat deceptive ticketing practices. I have to give much love to Ticketing Professionals (UK) Confere…
About a year ago I had mentioned that states had begun creating legislation to combat problematic ticket resale practices given that legislation on the federal level was either slow to emerg…
According to a piece in Harvard Business Review about what companies can learn from their biggest fans, apparently only the highest levels of satisfaction will result in an increase of produ…
There was an article on the FastCompany website talking about how companies can’t expect to scale customer connection. It needs to happen on a individualize basis through a relatively pain…
Last week I heard a news story about the Department of Education moving to require colleges and universities to provide graduates are better off with a degree than a high school diploma or r…
Over on the Charity Lawyer blog Ellis Carter recently posted on a topic that was not on my radar at all. Twenty-three states have sent a letter to GoFundMe regarding donation pages created f…
Last week, CreativeWest hosted a high quality webinar on succession planning. The guest speakers were Roy Hirabayshi, a founder of San Jose Taiko, and Tom Clareson of the Bay Area Arts Readi…
Seth Godin recently wrote about his perception that people approach fundraising in the wrong way. He suggests that for the donor making a donation is just as transactional as buying a suite …
I had seen a post on LinkedIn celebrating a bill establishing Artist Corporations passing out of committee in Colorado. Since I had never heard of that before, I did some additional research…
In conversations about why people are not attending arts and cultural events and experiences the concept of the work being too complicated for people to understand or perhaps, more complicat…
A couple weeks ago, Thomas Smith, an AI expert addressed Timothee Chalamet's comments about ballet and opera in Fast Company. Smith's take was that amid all the AI generated content people a…
For years now I have been talking about the value of non-profit arts and cultural institutions in communities in terms that don't emphasize monetary ROI to any group that will listen. Recent…
Fast Company had a piece on how public use of spaces has changed the spaces and art for the better. The bottom line is basically, design spaces to facilitate flexible use and don't try to re…
I always enjoy receiving ArtsMidwest's newsletters. They often feature great ideas to stea..erm…adapt for use in other communities. Recently they posted a call for pitches from residents o…
Apparently there is a growing concern in the museum world about the reluctance of younger generations to assume leadership roles given the challenges museum leaders face. This has been somet…
Back in January there was an article on Nautilus about boredom and the trend of people trying to endure forced boredom. There are "Do Nothing Challenges" and "Rawdogging" where people intent…
Recently in The Guardian, Tom Service suggested the classical music exponents stop trying to misrepresent the nature of the genre. He feels it does the music a disservice to try to create ap…
NPR had a story earlier this month about theaters' efforts to appeal to solo attendees. Apparently the Broadway League has noted that solo attendance during 2024-2025 season was double previ…
Entertainment lawyer Gordon Firemark and Tamera Bennett recently did a podcast episode addressing some intellectual property and copyright issues which had been in the news. One of the probl…
The Conversation recently had an article tangentially related to the concept of AI art. In this case, it is players of video games creating art out of the virtual landscapes in which they pl…
As I am wont to do, once again I am going to state that Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS have provided some interesting data insights. Back in the middle of February they rele…
Early last month Seth Godin made a post about precision and accuracy. The more I have thought about it, the more convinced I am that he hasn't fully considered his argument. Either that, or …
This week Kyle Bowen at Museum as Progress made a lengthy post about why they design their gatherings the way they do. What was interesting to me was how clear they are about what they are t…
In the last couple weeks there have been articles about Ireland making their basic income for artists program permanent. What that means is that around 2000 artists will be randomly chosen b…
Via Artsjournal.com is a piece on The Critic addressing the trend in thinking art has curative abilities. I have long written about the problem with measuring the value of art in prescriptiv…
Ruth Hartt made an insightful post on LinkedIn a few weeks ago which caught my attention. She also mirrored it on her own website. She talked about how boards and staffs of arts organization…
Last week, Springboard for the Arts, based in St. Paul, MN posted on LinkedIn about different funds they and others had created and contributed to in order to mitigate the impact of federal …
A decade ago when Nina Simon mentioned in a talk she did that not all the programming at a museum was necessarily for everyone, and that is alright, it was an eye opening moment for me. It h…
Reimagining The Civic Commons (RCC) made a post on Medium about the contribution of even brief passing nods and greetings on the street have in establishing our sense of belonging. They cite…
Seth Godin had an interesting take on pricing and market disruption. He noted that books, records, and other products often have uniform pricing that doesn't really reflect the demand. You m…
Last month Fast Company had a piece about how digital ticketing hasn't really stopped fraud as well as people expected. The article talks about how prior to the NFL going to digital ticketin…
This weekend a newsletter from the Master of Management in International Arts Management program caught my eye with a research piece titled Predicting Museum Visitors' Intention Through Nonv…
