Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:32AMTuesday, April 14, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06AMThursday, April 9, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:18AMWednesday, April 8, 2026
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 peop…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:54AMTuesday, April 7, 2026
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. Rece…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:24AMWednesday, April 1, 2026
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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:06AMTuesday, March 31, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:42AMWednesday, March 25, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:42PMMonday, March 23, 2026
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 peopl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:02PMWednesday, March 18, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMTuesday, March 17, 2026
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 pre…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:32AMWednesday, March 11, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42PMMonday, March 9, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMWednesday, March 4, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:31AMTuesday, March 3, 2026
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, o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMThursday, February 26, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06AMTuesday, February 24, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PMMonday, February 23, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMWednesday, February 18, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:31AMTuesday, February 17, 2026
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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AMThursday, February 12, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:06AMWednesday, February 11, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMTuesday, February 10, 2026
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMWednesday, February 4, 2026
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 ticket…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:31AMTuesday, February 3, 2026
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 No…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:02AMThursday, January 29, 2026
You may have heard about the abrupt and somewhat controversial firing of Philadelphia Art Museum director and CEO Sasha Suda back in November. Recently Philadelphia Magazine published a long…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMWednesday, January 28, 2026
I am always keeping an eye open for different ways arts organizations can employ meaningful measures of impact. AEA Consulting listed different impact evaluation tools and criteria being use…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMTuesday, January 27, 2026
Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience have been dependable as always and recently provided a market outlook for arts and cultural organizations for 2026 & 2027 based…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMThursday, January 22, 2026
h/t to Anne Smith who posted this video on Linkedin of Ethan Hawke talking about giving yourself permission to be creative. For me the big impactful statement he makes is that everyone think…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36AMWednesday, January 21, 2026
There’s a kinda meme image circulating where a person says they had imagined a future where AI made her work easier so that she had more time for creative leisure. Instead, AI is being use…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:02AMThursday, January 15, 2026
Imagine, just as you have gotten with the times and started to effectively use social media to communicate and engage with younger audiences, the tool is yanked away. That is kinda what is h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AM 
