Wednesday, 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 11:33PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
On June 25, the TKTS booth in Times Square turned 50. I have written about some precursors to the discount ticketing booth The whole history is pretty fascinating, especially if you view it …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:07PMMonday, July 31, 2023
Last week Washington Post contributor Theodore Johnson reflected back on the first concert he saw when he was 9 years old (The Fat Boys). He noted that due to Covid restrictions, this summer…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:49PMWednesday, July 26, 2023
Some disappointing news out of Oregon. Portland is withdrawing support and participation from the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), an independent organization that handles grantin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:07PMTuesday, July 25, 2023
Bloomberg had an article about the renovated Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, now rebranded Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Prior to the renovation, the director said people would frequentl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:43PMThere was a lot of chatter on the Twittersphere last week (which I guess is the X Corp-sphere now?) over a NY Times editorial that Isaac Butler wrote advocating for the federal government to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:25AMThursday, July 20, 2023
Amid all the stories of arts organizations closing and scaling back, I saw a piece about a dance company in Dallas that has seen their situation improve with virtual and live programming dur…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:04AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
About a month ago, I wrote about the Fix the Tix Coalition which is advocating for laws to change exploitative ticket practices. Among the practices they were trying to change is websites ma…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:25PMMonday, July 17, 2023
This morning Arts Emergency, a UK based organization which advocates for the arts & humanities and puts a lot of effort into finding mentors for young creatives, post the following on Tw…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:49PMThursday, July 13, 2023
A post by Jason Lewis who writes The Butterfly Effect on substack suggests taking a donor to lunch is going to be a much better investment of time and resources when it comes to doing a bett…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:19AMWednesday, July 12, 2023
I have written before about Ireland’s plan to provide a guaranteed basic income for artists. A couple weeks ago, NBC News posted a story about the program on their website. In all, 2000 ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:55AMTuesday, July 11, 2023
A couple weeks ago in The Globe & Mail, Max Wyman wrote an opinion piece declaring the value of art and culture in Canada shouldn’t just be measured by economic standards. Long time re…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AMMonday, July 3, 2023
I am not sure when Culturebot fell off my daily reading list, but the last time I referenced a post was 2014. Thankfully Artsjournal.com linked to a piece by Andy Horowitz this week so the b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:43PMThursday, June 29, 2023
As Pride Month comes to an end, I wanted to call attention to an interesting piece that appeared earlier this month about the history of drag performances in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area du…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:07AMWednesday, June 28, 2023
In a sign of an alarming possible trend, the For Purpose Law Group blog cites an observation by the CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits that (my emphasis): ….an “ominous sign” is…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:49AMTuesday, June 27, 2023
So in an illustration of the importance of the exercise of soft power, the U.S. has agreed to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues to the tune of $600+ million. The US stopped paying dues in 2011…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AMFriday, June 23, 2023
There was a big story in American Theater this week that discussed the challenges theaters were having finding tech staff and designers, and to a lesser extent, sourcing the raw materials th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:04AMTuesday, June 20, 2023
A public radio station’s report on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s (OSF) finances is a good illustration of how restricted endowments can imperil the health of a non-profit organizatio…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:13PMWednesday, June 14, 2023
Fun article I think I found on Artsjournal.com. There is a bar in Portland, OR called Mendelssohn’s, run by a descendant of composer Felix Mendelssohn who has some opera and classical mu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:07PMA little over a month ago, I wrote about the newly formed Fix the Tix coalition which is urging the US Congress to pass legislation to protect ticket buyers from exploitative ticket pricing/…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:55AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
German arts colleague Rainer Glaap has been feeding me interesting articles over the last couple weeks. I was going to follow up on some content he sent earlier, but he hit me up with an int…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:19AMWednesday, June 7, 2023
About a year ago, I wrote about a post Colleen Dilenschneider made showing a link between museum gift shops and museum memberships. She recently wrote a similar piece about how gift shops …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:04AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
So as you are getting out there traveling to enjoy the natural beauty of the U.S. National Parks this summer, you may want to take a cautionary note from a case Gordon Firemark wrote about i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:43AMWednesday, May 31, 2023
So either the disruptions at performances in the UK are growing increasingly problematic or the topic has become a favorite bete noire of news outlets because I continue to see stories on th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMTuesday, May 30, 2023
It is likely you haven’t been able to avoid the seemingly incessant discussion about the negotiations to raise the debt limit. If you haven’t been able to muster the zen-like state of le…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMThursday, May 25, 2023
Earlier this week the LA Times had a rather lengthy piece on the closing number of the musical Six, a show about the six wives of Henry VIII. In the final number which has come to be known…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMWednesday, May 24, 2023
Howard Sherman posted a link to a New Yorker article about some intrepid film actors who stumbled upon an overlooked section of the The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Televis…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMTuesday, May 23, 2023
Over the weekend I caught a couple news articles out of the UK about a production which is carving out one performance in their run for black audiences only. The show, Tambo & Bones, whi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMWednesday, May 17, 2023
We were participating in a scavenger hunt for a local 3rd grade class today. The kids were given clues associated with museums, galleries and public art around the downtown area. In addition…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18PM 
