Thursday, November 6, 2025
A couple weeks ago I saw a blog post from Museums as Progress talking about how staff expertise isn't necessarily relevant to visitors. The point they made was just because expertise is impo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Seth Godin reinforced a conversation that has been circulating in the arts world with greater vigor over the last five-six years "people have so many options these days you need to distingui…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Writing for SMU DataArts, Doug Noonan recently had a short piece about identifying gig workers and free lancers in the creative industry which are usually missed by federal surveys. He notes…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2025
I have been reading and writing about Basic Guaranteed Income programs for quite a number of years. I was interested to see that Ireland decided to make their Basic Artist Income program per…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2025
So a little bit of good news out of Chicago. For a few years now I have been posting data showing how visitation at arts organizations compares to 2019 numbers. Some organization types are a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Last week Alan Harrison did an analysis on Donor Advised Funds (DAF), the relative value of the funds disbursed and some of the loopholes provided by DAFs. One of the things he notes is that…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2025
Oregon Arts Watch (h/t Artsjournal.com) provided some insight into a state advocacy group's two year plan to propose a redesign of the state's funding arts model in light of the national pol…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2025
The National Independent Venue Association released the results of their first survey showing the economic impact of independent venues in each of the 50 states and Washington D.C.. The info…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
For two weekends this month, the local Creative District is operating their annual artist studio tours. There are other associated activities, but the artists' opening their spaces for peopl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
About twice a month Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience release some interesting data they have compiled about trends they are seeing that may impact arts and cultural…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Tyler Cowen of the Marginal Revolution blog posted a short video meant as a preview of a long movie project discussing how we have eliminated ordinary beauty from our lives in the name of ef…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PM[SHARE]Over the last two years I have been monitoring the story of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony which abruptly declared bankruptcy taking the musicians who had just negotiated a raise completely…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Last week, the Arts Management program at American University released a series of video interviews with the former chairs of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) on the occasion of the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Hyperallergic had a story about a couple casino developers who offered to build museums as part of a bid open some casinos in NYC. According to the story, one would have developed a $15 mill…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2025
I have been holding an article in reserve for quite awhile as I waited for the Halloween season to roll around. 10 years ago this week Atlas Obscura had an article about why theaters place g…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Economist Tyler Cowen was interviewed by his colleague Alex Taborrak about Cowen's 1998 book, In Praise of Commercial Culture . (Transcript) Apparently this was the book that put Cowen on…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2025
This seems to be the week for pictures on the old blog. About a month ago I wrote about an effort to use art projects to mitigate the impact of road construction occurring across five blocks…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2025
I have written a number of posts in the last year about the value of labels in exhibits. There are a number of people who don't think they are of much use visitors. The opinions of those who…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
Earlier this summer Colorado Public Radio (CPR) ran a story about how high school theater teachers are focusing instruction on the technical aspects of their discipline in order to tap into …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
SMU DataArts released their National Trends study for 2025 in the last couple weeks. At first there is a brief flicker of optimism when you read that earned and contributed revenue is return…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:36AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2025
Seth Godin recently made a post on the question of "Who Is It For?" as a measure of the success of an endeavor. He says that while the concept of "maximizing shareholder value" is often cite…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Funding cuts for Philadelphia's transit system known as SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority) is causing a lot of concern around that city. SEPTA runs both trains and bu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Via a LinkedIn post by Rainer Glaap, I was disappointed to learn that Germany's KluturPass program is being discontinued. (In German but most browsers can translate pretty well.) The program…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Folks may remember that in June 2024 the University of the Arts in Philadelphia pretty abruptly announced they were closing after about 150 years in operation. This came as a shock to facult…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PM[SHARE]Earlier this month, Hyperallergic had a short article about a video that actor Steve Martin made for the Frick Collection in NYC. What I appreciated was the way the information in the video …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2025
You may not have heard about the Savannah Bananas baseball team. Or rather it may be more accurate to say Banana Ball team because they play a game that is a heavily altered version of baseb…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2025
Colleen Dilenschneider and her colleagues at IMPACTS Experience recently released data on social media engagement for cultural organizations. If you don't intend to read any further in this …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
While I was scrolling through Reddit this weekend, I came across a post about a doctor's office in the San Diego area prescribing visits to the New Children's Museum for the poster's 4 year …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
When I saw that Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience had posted data about whether Democrats and Republicans feel differently about cultural organizations (subscription…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
I haven't written about any of his posts for a couple years, but I have been following Gordon Firemark's entertainment law blog for 15 years, if not longer. At one point he wasn't posting wi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Last month I wrote about an article on the Metropolitan Museum of Art that appeared in Yale University's The Business Behind The Art series. Another article that caught my eye was about the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PM[SHARE] 
