Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Seth Godin had a post recently where he made the distinction between education and learning. The way he differentiated the two was that education is based in compliance and authority–you…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, June 18, 2019
If you didn’t happen to see it rolling around social media or on Artsjournal.com last week, Carolina Performing Arts’ festival, The Commons, experimented with a new model of criticism. …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:42AMAround 1600 Shakespeare wrote about brevity being the soul of wit in Hamlet. Roughly 400 years later, phone text messaging and Twitter limited us to the number of characters one could post…
Linked From artshacker.com at 03:00AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Economist Alex Tabarrok recently made an interesting post on Baumol’s cost disease. The concept usually explained by noting that since it doesn’t take any less time to perform a string…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:12AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com who listed an article from The Conversation about how your phone can interrupt a concert experience. Author Christine Van Winkle discusses research she and her tea…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:48AMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Seth Godin recently wrote a lengthy post on the subject of apologies. He addresses the issue of entities providing insufficient apologies but also the expectation of restitution which is o…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 04:06AMFriday, June 7, 2019
All right. A little gripe time here. I have been nursing a sense of dissatisfaction for a couple weeks now but it sort of came to a head when I saw the title of Ceci Dadisman’s recent post…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:48AMWednesday, June 5, 2019
There is often conversation about how people employed in arts and cultural pursuits overwork themselves (or are overworked) and are seeking to throttle things back to achieve a work-life bal…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:42AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
A confluence of events and information made me realize that it might be time to revisit the subject of one of my favorite posts. Last week I was talking to one of my staff about who to inclu…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:18AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
I recently wrote a piece for ArtsHacker about the emerging role of intimacy direction for productions on stage and screen. When I first read about intimacy direction a few years ago, it wa…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:24PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Big tip of the hat to Sarah Carleton for tweeting about research that proves what we long suspected — people are more likely to exploit the labor of those viewed as pursuing their passions…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:42PMA recent development in theater, television and film performance, in terms of theory and practice, is the role of intimacy director. There was a video on The Atlantic which frames it as emer…
Linked From artshacker.com at 12:44PMThursday, May 23, 2019
CityLab ran an article from The Atlantic today discussing how the availability of amenities like libraries and cafes within walking distance of your home bolstered civil society and personal…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:48AMThis is turning into a video heavy week with my posts. With all my talk about helping people recognize their capacity for creative expression, this seemed to be a ready made example. The BBC…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:48AMThere was an interesting video on Shanghaiist in the last week about a hotel whose architect designed three giant deities for the facade to combat rumors that the building was constructed on…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:48AMFriday, May 17, 2019
I saw an article on Gizmodo in the last couple weeks about scientists who designed 3,900 pound concrete structures that can be moved by a single person. As I read about cuts to arts in schoo…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:54PMI bookmarked a guest post on Museum 2.0 a month ago. Now I feel guilty for not circling back to it sooner. Nina Simon invited Martin Brandt Djupdræt, a manager at Danish museum, to write …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:54PMI participated in a work session for the development of a cultural masterplan for the county today. My table was focused on ideas to attract creative professionals to the community. There wa…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:54PMThursday, May 9, 2019
You have probably heard some form of the Peter Principle expressed before. At its most cynical, it is usually defined as, “A person will be promoted to their level of incompetence.” …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:36AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
As so often is the case, Seth Godin recently made a post many elements of which are often cited as mistakes arts organizations make. It should be noted that the things Godin lists are not me…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:42AMThursday, May 2, 2019
There was a piece on Hyperallergic last month that seemed to be continuing an ongoing conversation about the fact that most university based arts programs seem to be oriented toward training…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:24AMWhen I was looking at Arts Professional UK for yesterday’s post, I saw an article by Lucy Jamieson about rewiring your thinking. One of the things she talks about is eliminating silos both…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:24AMOn the Arts Professional UK website, Imrana Mahmood, discusses her experiences becoming a creative producer in a manner that reminded me of two other speakers/authors I often cite. Mahmood…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:24AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
When I was at the Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit last week, one of the other participants asked if there was a way to communicate to funders that they can’t just fund a program and…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:30PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
A piece from Artsy regarding what they had learned writing 7000 bios for visual artists came across my radar a few weeks ago and I quickly tagged it as something I to which wanted to circle …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:00PMMonday, April 22, 2019
Part of last week I was attending the Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit for the South and Appalachian region. I am sorry to say that one of the biggest impressions I came away with is t…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:35PMMonday, April 15, 2019
I am always up for spreading around awesome ideas that people execute. I wanted to give a shout out to my old collaborators, at the Creative Cult. They have been involved with all sorts of c…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:56PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Something I thought might be interesting to readers. The City of Douglas, GA has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to purchase and run a historical theater. You don’t see this that …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:36PMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Hate the fact that your city will provide millions to fund an arena that only gets used 20 times a year but not arts organizations that each host hundreds of events a year? Concerned that th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:30PMMonday, April 8, 2019
While I have written about this before, of late it seems that the decision to accept a donation from someone is increasingly one requiring deliberation. An article on The Conversation lays o…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:34PMWednesday, April 3, 2019
One arts marketing phrase I have always hated, and thankfully I seldom see it these days, is “…illustrates what it means to be human..” I often dislike the rationale that something tel…
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