Wednesday, January 15, 2025
I got to see a performance of The Rose of Sonora this weekend. It is a concerto in five scenes performed by Holly Mulcahy and composed by George S. Clinton. I had first written about it ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18PMTuesday, January 14, 2025
As a supplement to yesterday’s post regarding how children interact with museum labels, there was a second short piece on The Conversation website about whether it is important to read the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PMSome research how adults and children focus on visual art pieces in different ways provides some insight into how to write and present introductory and educational information to children. N…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:54AMWednesday, January 8, 2025
A story I was watching throughout December was the threat of Berlin cutting its funding for arts and culture. Right before Christmas, the city did indeed cut funding by $130 million which re…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:02PMAn interesting intersection of art and technology I saw in an article in The Harvard Gazette where an assistant professor of bioengineering, Shriya Srinivasan, created a phone app which woul…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
I have been a big fan of Springboard for the Arts and the work they do for a number of years. I look forward to their annual reports which have been depicted as infographics for the last dec…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:24AMThursday, December 19, 2024
The last two days I have been covering some of the responses the National Endowment for the Arts received in the dozen listening sessions they conducted with theaters in spring and summer of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMWednesday, December 18, 2024
Today I am following on yesterdays post about the National Endowment for the Art’s report on a dozen listening sessions they conducted this past spring and summer, Defying Gravity: Convers…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
This morning the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released Defying Gravity: Conversations with Leaders from Nonprofit Theater. The result of the report are based on conversations during…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06AMThursday, December 12, 2024
A few weeks ago I wrote about how the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony appeared to have found a path to return to activity, albeit tenuous, after the musicians were blindsided by a bankruptcy ann…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMWednesday, December 11, 2024
Seth Godin recently made a post using the recent Jaguar rebrand to illustrate the difference between rebranding and re-logoing They think a rebrand and a re-logo are the same thing, they’r…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:36PMWednesday, December 4, 2024
A recent Slate piece covered the music rights issues being faced by athletes who use music in competition – among them figure skating, gymnastics, artistic swimming, cheer, ballroom dance,…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:06AMMonday, December 2, 2024
Back in May I wrote about research Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS derived from the National Awareness, Attitudes, and Usage Study regarding what factors help them to feel we…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42PMWednesday, November 27, 2024
In October the National Endowment for the Arts Quick Study podcast (transcript available) took a look at how arts participation broke down across the United States via data collected in 2022…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:02AMMonday, November 25, 2024
For the record, I am not on the side of singing along with the movie in the theater. That said, I think it is to the theater world’s credit that there is a notable debate raging about whet…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:31PMTuesday, November 19, 2024
We are constantly told about the hazards of inputting sensitive personal data into unsecure websites. That is pretty much what you are doing when you provide information to an AI bot and ask…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMMonday, November 18, 2024
Via Arts and Letters Daily is an article by Bailey Sincox about how theater tickets and programs, long regarded as ephemera are becoming increasingly ephemeral thanks to technology. Tickets …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMFriday, November 15, 2024
Annual reviews are an important component of the work environment. This is especially true in the environment of arts organizations where people wear so many hats it is difficult to feel you…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:24PMWednesday, November 13, 2024
Seth Godin recently wrote about how, as an MBA student at Stanford, he went into an interview with the CEO of Activision waving a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article and claiming Activisio…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMTuesday, November 5, 2024
A year ago I wrote about how the musicians of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony were blindsided by the organization declaring bankruptcy. There had been no communication prior to the declara…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMThe National Endowment for the Arts recently released the arts related results of the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. Unlike the Survey on Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:24AMWednesday, October 30, 2024
Museums As Progress sponsored a talk with John Falk today on a chapter from his upcoming book Leaning Into Value: Becoming a User-Focused Museum. The chapter addressed the value of data to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Ruth Hartt had reposted an Observer debating what sort of information and how much makes for a good museum label. It immediately occurred to me that this can be a tall order based on the fac…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMTuesday, October 22, 2024
It has been a few years since I posted anything about the Wormfarm Institute so I was happy to read a Hyperallergic post via Artsjournal.com about Wormfarm’s annual Farm/Art D’tour whi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:42PMMonday, October 21, 2024
At one of my previous positions, I had started a conversation with a local storytelling group about partnering on a curated storytelling series. This conversation happened a month before the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PMThursday, October 17, 2024
Daniel J. Levitin had a piece in The Walrus this month where he goes on at length about how music is therapy. In the middle of the article were a couple paragraphs that suggested the dividin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Dave Wakeman’s appearance on Angela Meleca’s ARTS Redefined podcast was making the rounds of LinkedIn last week. One section in particular where Wakeman discussed his opposition to disco…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:48PMLast month, the Bloemencorso Zundert, caught my attention. It is the largest flower parade in the world held in Zundert, Netherlands. Twenty hamlets compete to have their parade float judged…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts asked a number of different people to respond to the 2022 Surveys of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). One of those asked to respond was Everette T…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMTuesday, October 8, 2024
Pretty interesting article on The Conversation about how different types of music can help or hinder cognitive activity. The target audience for the article it primarily students in relation…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMMonday, October 7, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts recently released data showing that the number of adults and children (most of the data from surveys of 9 and 13 year olds) has been decreasing over the l…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PM 
