Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Nod to Laura Zabel who tweeted a story about the guaranteed basic income for artists pilot program being started in Ireland. The plan is to provide €325/week to 2000 artists. This is act…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMI have been following Lucy Bernholz, a self-described philanthropy wonk, for ages it seems. She writes the blog Philanthropy 2173 and is a senior researcher at Stanford’s Center on Philant…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:06PMThursday, October 28, 2021
A couple weeks ago Hyperallergic had an article that was a critical of museums who had received Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds meant to keep people employed, but instead ended up la…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Dan Pink pointed to a study (warning, ad heavy page) that suggests while office interruptions may be disruptive to one’s workflow, it ultimately creates a sense of worth and belonging for …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
I have often viewed my professional career as having moments where I build on general ideas and concepts from earlier positions, but adapted to suit the local community. I am always wary of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:32AMThursday, October 21, 2021
In writing posts I often draw on examples from commercial enterprises and other types of non-profits to provide interesting ideas or lessons that my primary audience of arts and culture prof…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMWednesday, October 20, 2021
I was really disappointed last Friday when I read that Arts Midwest would be pausing their conference. I have a hard time believing it will gear up again in the future. If you aren’t awa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AMWednesday, October 13, 2021
Tweets responding to UK based Arts Emergency’s new campaign were filling my Twitter feed today. I have written about them a couple times before. They are essentially focused on cultivating…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMTuesday, October 12, 2021
I often read about classical music composers being the rock star of their day, but don’t often get a lot of detail about what that meant. I just happened upon an article in Lapham’s Quar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:36PMMonday, October 11, 2021
Seema Rao at Museum 2.0 shared notes from a session she conducted at the Museum Computer Network conference last week titled “Are Museums A Cult?” The answer, as I am sure you have antic…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18PMThursday, October 7, 2021
h/t to Alex Tabarrok who posted about a Classicfm.com story on how much money classical music composers would make from Spotify streams of their music. Using the estimate figure of $0.0037 (…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:36AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
H/T to Artsjournal.com which included an article about the Philadelphia Public Orchestra, (PPO) being billed as the World’s First Public Orchestra. The way the article describes it, this i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:24PMTuesday, October 5, 2021
Last month, NextCity had something of a preliminary update on the guaranteed income for artists programs in San Francisco, CA and St. Paul, MN I wrote about last April. Both programs started…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:42AMThursday, September 30, 2021
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com which featured an article that seems to indicate it is better to diversify the donor base rather than continue to ask the same pool of donors to give more. The a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54AMWednesday, September 29, 2021
Seth Godin recently made a post where he noted that while at one time asking someone for a favor involved a personal, one-to-one appeal, email lists and databases have made it easy to make a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:36AMTuesday, September 28, 2021
When I was an undergraduate, and even after I graduated college, I applied to work at the Williamstown Theater Festival, one of the most prestigious summer theaters in the country. Recent re…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18AMThursday, September 23, 2021
This morning I attended a brand reveal for a Marriott hotel slated to open half a block from my venue in/around January. This particular collection of hotels is highly customized to the comm…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
People working or closely aligned with arts organizations know that a central topic of conversation in recent weeks is whether to require proof of vaccination for audiences. Drew McManus has…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PMTuesday, September 21, 2021
You may have seen last week that CBS quickly shifted directions when their planned show to pit activists against each other in a game show like competition drew extremely negative responses …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:54PMThursday, September 16, 2021
There have been a lot of stories about shows re-opening on Broadway and how important that is to the economy of NYC. While I haven’t read everything single article, one that appeared on Bl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:42AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
My day job is Executive Director of The Grand Opera House in Macon, GA. Around the end of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century, it was vogue to name theaters as Grand Opera …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32AMMonday, September 13, 2021
More great stories of artists being part of infrastructure projects, this time from a Next City article that came out last week. I have written about these type of projects before and one of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48PMThursday, September 9, 2021
For Purpose Law Group posted the second installment of their “Nonprofits: What Not To Do,” series yesterday. The first installment dealt with the infamous Indianapolis Museum of Art job …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06AMWednesday, September 8, 2021
Last week, Sunil Iyengar is the NEA director of the Office of Research & Analysis, penned a piece aligned with the occasion of Labor Day, commenting that the value of art often subtracts…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMWednesday, September 1, 2021
Seth Godin made an interesting post that intersects somewhat with the questions arts organizations are having about putting content on digital platforms. Alas, I don’t know that it provide…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMTuesday, August 31, 2021
Shelterforce posted a video and article about how the term gentrification manifests in different ways and thus doesn’t always conform to the same definition in every community, leading to …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12PMThursday, August 26, 2021
On Friday one of my colleagues at work is flying to NYC to see Springsteen on Broadway, the show that re-opened earlier than pretty much all the others. She purchased the tickets months ago …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:32PMTuesday, August 24, 2021
Drew McManus has started a database of the different policies performing arts venues around the country have enacted. He started it last Friday and announced the 100th entry this morning. …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMAs something of a dovetail to my post yesterday about Drew McManus’ effort to compile a database of performing arts venue vaccination policies, (Drew reported a surge of new entries to the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMThursday, August 19, 2021
Washington Post reported an interesting development in the Washington, D.C. arts and cultural environment last week. The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities asked the D.C. Council to …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AMVia Artsjournal.com is a FastCompany article by Amy Globus whose thesis is that Covid-19 gave the arts world the kick in the butt required to motivate it to think about how to leverage digit…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AM 
