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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Frank Lloyd Wright Didn't Want A/C In Dallas Theater He Designed by Joe Patti

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 Cen…

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Babysitters For Artist As Well As Audience by Joe Patti

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.  Wh…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AM[SHARE]
Thursday, October 5, 2023

How The Red Scare Led to Ren Faires by Joe Patti

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 10:55PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

One Of The Last Un-Unionized Groups Of Broadway Workers Looks To Organize by Joe Patti

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 10:13PM[SHARE]
Monday, October 2, 2023

One Org Making Good On Covid Era Diversity Commitments by Joe Patti

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 10:03PM[SHARE]
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Symphony Was Heading Into Trouble, But Apparently No One Told The Musicians by Joe Patti

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 02:19AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Studies Indicate Arts Degrees May Be Worth It by Joe Patti

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 01:55AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Just As I Was Wondering About How Things Turned Out by Joe Patti

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 01:33AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Stuff You Don't Think About " Relation Between Insurance And Ability To Hang Art by Joe Patti

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 09:03PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Bad Enough Having Computers Making Hiring Decisions, Are Grants Awards Next? by Joe Patti

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 08:37PM[SHARE]

More Reasons Not To Use Contextomy by Joe Patti

I 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…

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Thursday, September 7, 2023

The Bell Works, But It Needs You by Joe Patti

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 ex…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:25PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Strip Club Dancers Return To Work With Actors' Equity Representation by Joe Patti

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 th…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:13PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Strength Of Intent To Return May Be Stronger Predictor Of Return Than Even Enjoyment Of Experience by Joe Patti

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 09:49PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Another Effort At Efficiently Crunching 990 Data by Joe Patti

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 nonprof…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:25PM[SHARE]
Monday, August 28, 2023

You're Not Hiring Them To Fit In by Joe Patti

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 cultu…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:13PM[SHARE]
Thursday, August 24, 2023

August Wilson Biography Causing Some Buzz by Joe Patti

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 01:25AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Fewer Non-Profits Engaging In Lobbying Advocacy Than 20 Years Ago by Joe Patti

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 06:55AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Broadway Books Babysitters To Bolster Attendance by Joe Patti

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 L…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:33AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Will Dwindling Supply Of Trained Piano Tuners Also Threaten Arts Orgs by Joe Patti

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 10:25PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Give A Kid A Culture Voucher And They Buy Books As Well As Experiences by Joe Patti

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 …

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Monday, August 14, 2023

When Trying To Break Boundaries Threatens To Break Your Spirit by Joe Patti

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 adv…

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Thursday, August 10, 2023

Is Bottom Up Funding Of The Arts The Next Business Model? by Joe Patti

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 couple…

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

What Donors Want Vs. Org Capacity To Provide by Joe Patti

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…

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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright by Joe Patti

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…

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

California Politicians Ask T. Swift To Postpone Shows In Solidarity With Union Strike by Joe Patti

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…

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

NYC TKTS Booth Turns 50 by Joe Patti

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 …

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Monday, July 31, 2023

Do You Remember Your First Concert Experience? by Joe Patti

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 10:49PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Bad News As Portland Announces Withdrawl From Regional Arts Group by Joe Patti

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…

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

How Will The New Albright-Know Be Received By Buffalo's Working Class by Joe Patti

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…

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More Funding, But For Status Quo Or Difficult Change? by Joe Patti

There 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 02:25AM[SHARE]

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