Wednesday, 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 11:18PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
TRG Arts recently released some data showing that not all segments of performing arts have recovered from pandemic shutdowns at the same rate. Comparing four factors from 2019 to 2022: Tic…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMMonday, May 15, 2023
A link to a great story came across my feed today about a Hawaii Symphony Orchestra’s production that was really focused on resonating with the interests of the community they serve. Las…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:32PMWednesday, May 10, 2023
I was scrolling through Reddit while waiting for a show to end Friday night and happened upon a post that reflects great engagement by the St. Louis Blues hockey team. A guy discovering ho…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36PMVu Le made a thought provoking post with suggestions to make fundraising events more community-centric. The subtext of his thoughts is essentially to avoid valorizing donors and literally ma…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AMTuesday, May 9, 2023
It appears the folks that spearheaded the Save Our Stages effort during Covid which became the Shuttled Venue Operators Grant program are turning their energies toward tackling all the probl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMThursday, May 4, 2023
There is a fairly extensive article on the Time magazine site about using creative practice to address burnout. The piece by Jamie Ducharme was titled “I Tried to Cure My Work Burnout. H…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:18AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
I had a post appear on ArtsHacker today about hiring executive leadership in the context of the social changes which have occurred since the start of the Covid pandemic. My post primarily fo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMColleen Dilenschneider made a post comparing what factors created dissatisfaction for attendees of cultural events in 2019 vs. 2022. She posted charts for both exhibit and performance based …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:36AMMonday, May 1, 2023
Leadership transitions are important for arts and culture organizations. We have featured a number of articles on the topic, covering both planning philosophy and actual practical examples. …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:56AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
Nina Simon may have left museum administration and being an agent of change behind to write books, but she still manages to live and think right on the cusp of things. Today, I receive an ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
Artsjournal linked to a piece in a University of Florida journal about a program the university is piloting in the hopes of eventually rolling out a national program of prescribing arts to s…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMMonday, April 24, 2023
Another entry in the “What is art” debate– A bakery owner in NH allowed students to paint a mural on his building. Because the mural depicted a sun rising over mountains made of donuts…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PMFriday, April 21, 2023
Earlier this month, the Albany Times-Union reported that there won’t be much theatre occurring at the storied Willamstown Theatre Festival. The reason is based on the staff walkouts and …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMWednesday, April 19, 2023
Bloomberg recently had a piece about how the Girls Scouts of Colorado recently opened a space in Denver known as DreamLab, envisioned to be a third space for girls. As spaces for young peopl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMTuesday, April 18, 2023
By now most people have probably heard about the brawl between audience members at a Manchester, England performance of The Bodyguard because people were singing along to “I Will Always Lo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:32AMThursday, April 13, 2023
Thanks to Barry Hessenius for providing my post topic today. He sent a link to an Inc magazine piece titled “Want to Raise Kind, Generous Kids? Take Them to an Art Museum.” Readers will …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
When I saw a notice about MAD Magazine artist Al Jaffee’s death at 102 yesterday, it was tucked in the corner of a website so I didn’t think there would be a lot of notice. But this morn…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:42PMMonday, April 10, 2023
A Guardian article on classical music in Iceland caught my eye last week. The story basically suggested that because the country got a late start with classical music, (first major tour by H…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:06PMThursday, April 6, 2023
You may have seen a rise in backlash against Ticketmaster fees coming from performing artists. Neil Young recently posted that exploitative ticketing fees were taking the fun out of touring.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
The blog for Master of Management in International Arts Management had a case study post by Donna S. Finley and Vijay Sathe examining how the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) and Alberta…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMTuesday, April 4, 2023
This morning I saw Artsjournal had linked to a story about the seizure of a statue at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which had apparently been stolen from Turkey. More and more frequently th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
Via Artsjournal.com is a story on Fast Company about the return of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus which ceased operations in 2017. Feld Entertainment, which owns the circus is…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMMonday, March 27, 2023
Being customer focused rather than internally focused is the name of the game these days. Drew McManus provided a great example of customer focused design in an interview on Dave Wakeman’s…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:02PMWednesday, March 22, 2023
Hyperallergic had an article about how artists can get a public/private art commission. Paddy Johnson responds saying “…there are so many ways to get commissions, yet so few shared resou…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:30PMTuesday, March 21, 2023
Back in February, Bloomberg had a story about a housing project proposed in an old police station in Silver Springs, MD where the desire for affordable housing and artist housing was bridged…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:47PMMonday, March 20, 2023
Last week, Sunil Iyengar, Director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was on the NEA’s Quick Study podcast (transcript) talking about the state of the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:55PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Busy into the evening tonight so I thought these brief thoughts from New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael, shared by Isaac Butler might be a good subject to ponder. The no-talent has as much …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:53PMTuesday, March 14, 2023
While it has only been about six months since I shared a story about the Philadelphia based project DanceLogic which teaches girls to code through choreography, I saw another piece recently …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:01PMMonday, March 13, 2023
Rainer Glaap recently posted a story about Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s (German Opera on the Rhein) partnership with Vodaphone to offer augmented information about the opera’s production of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:05PMWednesday, March 8, 2023
About six months ago I drew attention to Vu Le’s humorous recasting of Greek myths with non-profit themes. I was delighted when he released his next installment this week adapting six more…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:47PM 
