Tuesday, October 24, 2023
I recently saw an article about the Portland Art Museum essentially firing all their volunteer docents by email in favor of paid students with a suggestion that the docents weren’t diverse…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:55PMMonday, October 23, 2023
Recently I have been seeing articles heralding the Taylor Swift and Beyonce concert movies as the recipe for financial success for struggling movie theaters—turn movie attendance into an e…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:33PMTuesday, October 17, 2023
A couple hours after I made my post about an article addressing the problem with “drip fees” in the UK and the psychology that reinforces their use, I saw that the FTC is proposing new r…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:19PMMonday, October 16, 2023
Last week, my regional booking consortium organized its first Zoom conversation for marketing staff to share questions, ideas and just generally converse. I lurked around for most of the con…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:07PMThursday, October 12, 2023
A survey found that in the UK, 93% of event ticketers add “drip fees” on to transactions. As you probably suspect, those are the undisclosed added fees that pop up as you go through th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:19AMWednesday, October 11, 2023
I came across an interesting story about the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The 400 seat Kalita Humphreys Theater, constructed in 1959, is one of the Dallas Theater Center�…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:49AMTuesday, October 10, 2023
Back in August I mentioned a partnership of organizations working with the Broadway production of Here Lies Love to offer babysitting services to people attending select performances. What…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AMThursday, October 5, 2023
The Smithsonian Magazine just published a pretty interesting story about how the proliferation of Renaissance Faires (RenFaire) in the US got their start due to artists being blacklisted dur…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:55PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
Last week I saw that production assistants (PA) on Broadway shows were seeking to unionize under the auspices of Actors Equity Association, which represents actors and stage managers. What r…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:13PMMonday, October 2, 2023
A number of arts organizations made strong commitments to diversify their offerings and the composition of their staffs and performers as they emerged from Covid restrictions. Recently there…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:03PMThursday, September 28, 2023
I have been reading about the closure of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada and some of the stories are pretty heartbreaking. The concertmaster was in a moving van driving fr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:19AMWednesday, September 27, 2023
Recently on the NEA Quick Study podcast Sunil Iyengar, Director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts shared data that indicated getting an arts degree can be worth…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:55AMTuesday, September 26, 2023
Last week I was flying into to Indianapolis to attend the Midwest Arts Xpo conference and I idly wondered how things had turned out at Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields after their job…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AMWednesday, September 13, 2023
Lately I have been seeing articles in The Guardian that are calling attention to overlooked aspects of creative practice that have big impacts if conditions start to change. A couple weeks a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
A couple weeks ago Vu Le wrote about how useful AI can potentially be in the process of writing grants. So often granting organizations essentially ask for the same information, with some va…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:37PMI recently saw an article in The Guardian about a controversy that arose from misrepresenting reviews of a book by Jordan Peterson through the use of selective editing. The Times columnist J…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:19AMThursday, September 7, 2023
A couple weeks ago, I caught a story on NPR about a temporary monument exhibit that has been placed on the National Mall in Washington, DC. While a little more permanent than a pop-up exhi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:25PMWednesday, September 6, 2023
Last September I made a post about strippers working at a club in Los Angeles who were approaching Actors’ Equity Association to help them unionize their workplace. Today I saw on CNN.com …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:13PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
I recently received an email which directed me to a 2021 study funded by the Wallace Foundation called, What They Say And What They Do which essentially looked at whether people who say they…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:49PMTuesday, August 29, 2023
Thanks to the Non-Profit Law Blog’s weekly curated link list, I learned that there is a new collaborative working on a way to provide a clearinghouse for raw, clean, and standardized nonpr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:25PMMonday, August 28, 2023
There was a short piece in Fast Company today that discusses hiring employees in similar terms to what is required to broaden and diversify audiences – You have to hire for the company cul…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:13PMThursday, August 24, 2023
The Atlantic recently ran a piece by Imani Perry reviewing a biography of playwright August Wilson by Patti Hartigan. The book has been getting a lot of notice over the last few weeks. This …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:25AMWednesday, August 23, 2023
According to a story on the Associated Press, fewer non-profits are engaging in lobbying efforts than 20 years ago. The Independent Sector had commissioned a study that found less than 1/3 o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:55AMTuesday, August 22, 2023
Ken Davenport recently posted that the Broadway Production of Here Lies Love was working on lowering barriers to attendance by offering babysitting during four upcoming performances. “Here…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:33AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
Caught a timely article from The Guardian about the dwindling number of piano tuners in Australia. I am fairly certain arts and cultural organizations in other countries are having a similar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:25PMTuesday, August 15, 2023
I have been keeping an eye on the cultural voucher programs various European countries employ to encourage young people to get out and engage in different experiences. The program differ in …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:07PMMonday, August 14, 2023
Last week on the Association of Performing Arts Professional’s (APAP) podcast, Emily Isaacson of Classical Uprising talked about some of the frustrating experiences she has had trying to a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:43PMThursday, August 10, 2023
There was another editorial about how the arts should be funded that is getting a lot of notice this week. You may recall I had posted about Isaac Butler’s editorial in the NY Times a coup…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:55AMWednesday, August 9, 2023
Today Margy Waller posted a link to an opinion piece from the Chronicle of Philanthropy with that comment that the piece was not satire. While the piece was apparently posted in June, a vers…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:37AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
There was an interesting and rather lengthy article in the Chronicle of Higher Education last week about the puppetry program at West Virginia University. It is apparently one of the few deg…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:13AMWednesday, August 2, 2023
Via the CityLab newsletter, Politico recently reported that the Lt. Governor of California, Eleni Kounalakis, was among a number of politicians calling upon Taylor Swift to postpone her show…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:33PM 
