Thursday, October 22, 2020
In the closing plenary of the Arts Midwest/Western Arts Alliance conference, Arts Midwest CEO Torrie Allen spoke to Theaster Gates about a number of topics. What caught my attention was Gate…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:03AMIn September, the National Endowment for the Arts released the results of an Arts Participation survey, Why We Engage: Attending, Creating and Performing Art. Much of the information about w…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:03AMTuesday, October 20, 2020
There was a minor uproar recently in the UK over an ad campaign featuring a picture of a ballerina with text suggesting that her next job could be cyber. The implication a lot of people saw …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:32PMThursday, October 15, 2020
Recently I have been talking about how Covid times have brought a greater tolerance on the part of boards/audiences for experimentation with programming choices. I guess I have been talking …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:42PMOne of the panel sessions at the recent Arts Midwest-Western Arts Alliance virtual conference was on Reopening. The one panelist that really caught my attention was Anna Glass, Executive Dir…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:42PMTuesday, October 13, 2020
I mentioned last week that I was in the middle of virtually attending the combined Arts Midwest-Western Arts Alliance Conference. I will probably have a couple entries of observations on par…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:06PMThursday, October 8, 2020
Last week Artnet reported that Germany’s 2021 draft budget held an increase in funding for cultural organizations in the country. You may recall that I made a post in May that clarified Ge…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:54PMTwo regional arts conferences, Western Arts Alliance and Arts Midwest partnered on offering a single online conference to replace their respective in-person events. I will say right from the…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:54PMThe title of today’s post references the fact yesterday’s post was about cultural funding in Germany. I hadn’t planned it this way, but I wanted to draw attention to the lengths variou…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:54PMThursday, October 1, 2020
If you have been reading my writing for the last few years, you know that in addition to employing the preceding phrase fairly often, I argue that not everything that can be measured about a…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:03AMWednesday, September 30, 2020
There is a big push, correctly, for arts organizations to employ data driven decision-making processes. However, not all data is of equal value. Colleen Dilenschneider recently made a good p…
Linked From artshacker.com at 03:14PMTuesday, September 29, 2020
Quick post today since I am going to link to something longer worth reading. The venue I run is associated with a university across town that made things right for an alum after it was defer…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:36PMI just want to take a moment to brag on some museum friends and also reinforce the idea that one shouldn’t discount the experiences found in small towns as of lower quality. Long time read…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:32PMThursday, September 24, 2020
I knew Ruth Bader Ginsburg loved opera. There are stories about her and Justice Scalia’s friendship and shared love of opera. A few weeks ago, I had written about the artistic director of …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:36AMWednesday, September 23, 2020
As I was driving into work today, I heard an NPR story about the 92nd St Y, an event/education space in NYC, and how they have gone virtual during Covid-19. According to NPR, in a typical …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:06AMTuesday, September 22, 2020
h/t to Artsjournal.com (I believe) which linked to an article about creativity from the Chinese perspective, or at least perspective of the philosopher(s) known as Zhuangzi. This is a view t…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:36AMThursday, September 17, 2020
There was an article on San Francisco Classical Voice website on September 1 about racism in classical music titled “The Last Water Fountain: The Struggle Against Systemic Racism in Classi…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:54PMTuesday, September 15, 2020
Many have probably heard about the Broadway productions in South Korea which only experienced a brief shutdown thanks to the swift and fairly comprehensive measures the government and produc…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:54PMMonday, September 14, 2020
Today Drew McManus had a post on Adaptistration titled “In the Age Of COVID, Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention.” This was pretty timely because I had my own tale of adapting to the ti…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:32PMThursday, September 10, 2020
A post on ye olde Twitter feed led me to a piece on The Globe & Mail site structured as a conversation between J. Kelly Nestruck (theatre critic) and Kate Taylor (visual art critic). In …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:42AMWednesday, September 9, 2020
I saw an article about an interview with Kimberly Drew on Slate that I really liked. Drew had a book come out, This Is What I Know About Art . What grabbed my attention was Drew defining a …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:18AMThursday, September 3, 2020
It was with some sorrow that I learned this week that a great man who has literally been part of the grassroots effort to provide arts experiences to young people died last week. Albert Appe…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:03AMWednesday, September 2, 2020
Drew McManus has recently rolled out a video podcast on the Adaptistration site with the goal of addressing topics facing the orchestra business. Today, he posted the second episode title, A…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:32PMA little background. I have had a Facebook account since ~2011 but I only created it so I could access and control my organizational Facebook pages. There are a very small number of people I…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:32PMThursday, August 27, 2020
I am guessing it isn’t any news that a lot of arts and cultural organizations are struggling financially and grappling with the challenges presented by Covid-19. I mean, there is a lobbyin…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 04:06AMWednesday, August 26, 2020
A recent study looking at a connection between influenza mortality and professional sports leagues provides some insights into the possible impact of the more highly contagious Covid-19 viru…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:48AMTuesday, August 25, 2020
This past weekend the Macon Film Festival held one of their few live screenings of this year in my theater. (The rest of the festival content is being streamed.) They showed The Sound of Ide…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:24PMThursday, August 20, 2020
Collen Dilenschneider most a recent post about the factors that influence a cultural organization’s reputation. In order they are: Favorability, Mission Execution, Onsite Experience, Stabi…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:24AMWednesday, August 19, 2020
While I am not really plugged into the visual arts gallery/museum world, one topic I have seen come up repeatedly is the sense that the creator of a piece should realize some benefit when th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:03AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
If you have read this blog for any length of time, you probably know that my gold standard for speeches about creative practice is one made by Ira Glass. This being said, the TED site recent…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:32AMFriday, August 14, 2020
Not long ago I saw a link on Artsjournal.com to a short news piece saying a study found music won’t make people smarter. I sought out the study in on the Memory & Cognition journal web…
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