Thursday, July 3, 2025
Early last month I saw a story about a giant pencil being sharpened in a Minneapolis suburb. Apparently a few years back the owners of a storm damaged oak tree on their front lawn had the id…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AMWednesday, July 2, 2025
There was a brief mention that came across my social media feed about the Philly Pops reclaiming their name after performing as No Name Pops for a number of years. Curious to learn what that…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMTuesday, July 1, 2025
The New York Philharmonic held a concert in the borough of Queens a recent weekend. The performance was under the direction of guest conductor, soon to be music and artistic director of the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMWednesday, June 25, 2025
According to a recent article in the Washington Post, while male attendance at Broadway shows generally hovers around 1/3 of audiences, a recent slate of plays labeled as “Bro Shows,” ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMGovernment agencies tend to have a reputation for being dull, unimaginative, and rule bound. Speaking from experience, I can confirm there is good reason for that reputation. I have to say t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42AMMonday, June 23, 2025
Back in April The Lancet had a brief piece by researchers of arts and health cautioning readers about the strength of research results connecting the arts with positive health outcomes. In g…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMWednesday, June 18, 2025
I was pleasantly surprised this past weekend to see NBC News devote a little time into reporting about the use of dynamic pricing by zoos and museums. I would typically expect them to report…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AMTuesday, June 17, 2025
Last week Drew McManus posted a slidedeck he used for a presentation at the Chorus America conference on LinkedIn. I wasn’t at the conference, but I have previously attended conferences at…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:32AMSaturday, June 14, 2025
Earlier this month, Colleen Dilenschneider and IMPACTS Experience released data on exclusive access being a membership benefit that was important to high value museum members. I wasn’t rea…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AMMonday, June 9, 2025
This weekend Margy Waller posted a guide for arts and cultural organizations to use to talk about the termination of your National Endowment for the Arts grant. The guide is based on researc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42PMThursday, June 5, 2025
I had purchased tickets from the Straz Center in Tampa, FL as a gift for family members earlier this year so I ended up on their mailing list. This week I received an email inviting me to a …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:03AMWednesday, June 4, 2025
Earlier this week Hyperallergic had an article about the cultural plans of two candidates for NYC mayor, Brad Lander and Zohran Mamdani. From the article, it appears Lander has a more detail…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:42AMTuesday, June 3, 2025
Seth Godin recently made a post about fans which can sort of hit close to home for arts organizations. His observations also serve to illustrate that the relationship dynamics experienced by…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:18AMThursday, May 29, 2025
This weekend someone posted a video of Gustavo Dudamel conducting the LA Philharmonic in a rehearsal of Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony 13 years ago in the nextfuckinglevel sub-reddit with…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
Kyle Bowen at Museum as Progress presented an interesting perspective on the way arts organizations can approach supporting the outcomes their visitors and participants seek. He tackles the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AMWednesday, May 21, 2025
I am generally opposed to promoting arts and cultural experiences as events that will make you swoon or enter some sort of ecstatic state. These aren’t common outcomes and there can be an …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:36AMTuesday, May 20, 2025
Patrick Bringley, who wrote a memoir about his time as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has an off-Broadway show based on his book. He now stars as a version of himself in a one-man…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:36PMThursday, May 15, 2025
Seth Godin made a post last week that aligns with the idea that it is easier and cheaper to retain a following rather than constantly trying to acquire new customers. Aubrey Bergauer will of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
Last month an article in The Guardian reported that the number of parent reporting that they enjoy reading aloud to their kids 0-4 has dropped from 64% in 2012 to 41% for the same age group …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMTuesday, May 13, 2025
Last week, Philip Cubeta had linked to a story on Inside Philanthropy analyzing the collection and distribution practices of donor advised funds (DAF). I have previously written about proble…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMTuesday, May 6, 2025
Interesting bit of research by Jeff Apruzzese who looked at whether opening for a major band on tour provided a bump in fame to launch them to stardom. Apruzzese had been a live musician on …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMMonday, May 5, 2025
When I made my post about the new TKTS booth in Philadelphia last week it occurred to me to check if Opera Philadelphia would be offering it $11 tickets for any seat in the house again this …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMThursday, May 1, 2025
For the last three weeks the Freakonomics radio podcast has run a three part series on the economics of live theater, Broadway shows in particular. They are using the example of the effort t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18AMThe iconic TKTS booth in NYC’s Times Square and London’s West End has branched out and started serving Philadelphia. The Philly branch provides discounted tickets for theater performance…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
As ever, I am paying attention to data on various trends, one of which is the level of perceived trust of cultural organizations. Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:32AMThursday, April 24, 2025
Ruth Hartt made a post yesterday that is getting a fair number of responses from folks in the arts community, including somewhat gratifyingly, board members who need to be invested in the go…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Kyle Bowen piqued my attention today in the Museums as Progress newsletter where he discussed Goodhart’s Law. “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Long time …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:24AMTuesday, April 22, 2025
Last week I had an ArtsHacker post covering a sessions sponsored by ArtsMidwest regarding compliance with Trump Administration Executive Orders on DEI programs. The content of this session i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
In March, Arts MidWest sponsored a webinar on the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders on DEI. The webinar was led by attorneys from McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Lawyers were eligibl…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:23PMShort, interesting piece on the INC magazine site on Tax Day about tax mistakes content creators and influencers make that has a bit of overlap for all creative and arts workers. The first a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:54AMTuesday, April 15, 2025
The Art Newspaper conducts an annual survey of the social media usage of 100 most visited museums in the world. They have typically taken a look at how museums have been using Facebook, Inst…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:32AM 
