Tuesday, December 8, 2020
On occasion I have conversations with co-workers and colleagues about how Covid-19 may change the general aesthetics of live performance in the future. For example: Will lingering concerns a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2020
I have a post on ArtsHacker today encouraging people to really think about what message their promotional photos are sending as we hopefully will start to move out of Covid restrictions. Art…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2020
The Atlantic ran an article about how museums are having to deal with questions about equity and representation in their programming that are posed by both external and internal constituenci…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:32AM[SHARE]Even pre-Covid the general guidance for promotional images and text was to focus on the audience experience. Regardless of whether the venue you perform/show your work at is allowed to open,…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Via Daniel Pink is a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article that suggests asking for advice rather than feedback. On the surface this may sound like a distinction without a difference, bu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2020
I saw a social media post this week that said something to the effect of: "Let's admit that back in 2015 we all failed to correctly answer the question, 'Where do you see yourself in five ye…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2020
I may owe some apologies to Drew McManus because I would have never expected that a podcast about the classical music industry would provide one of the best discussions about the complexitie…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:03AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2020
If you are pondering how to create new "entries" for participation with your organization for a broader, more diverse audience, survey results summarized in a Hyperallergic article might off…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2020
Michael Rushton is singing my song. Today he posted a critique of using economic impact as a measure of the value of the arts. It is "quick and dirty" as he says, so it won't take much time …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Seth Godin made a post on his Medium site last week about persistence. Whenever I see posts praising persistence I always start to philosophize about how one knows the line between construct…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Maybe we should be keeping an eye on Tulsa Opera. Back in August I wrote about a film that was screened in my venue about Tulsa Opera's casting a transgender person as Don Giovanni. A couple…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54PM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2020
Last day in my series this week covering the UNESCO document, Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector. Big thanks again to Rainer Glaap for calling attention to it. A…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AM[SHARE]To continue where I left off from yesterday's post about the UNESCO document, Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector, the next section addresses providing support fo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Very big THANK YOU to friend of the blog Rainer Glaap who sent me a link to an UNESCO document, Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector. At this point I think I am go…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 4, 2020
I recently came across an article the LA Review of Books on the book The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech by William Deresi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2020
I am not saying anything new when I note that there are a lot of arts organizations which are incapable of taking much action due to Covid related legal restrictions or lack of resources. My…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2020
I came across an interesting contrast in perspective about solutions for a post-Covid world last week. In American Theatre, Jim Warren, the founding artistic director of the American Shakesp…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2020
I recently saw this story about Adobe creating a new product using AI to smooth out dance movement in videos. I can definitely see the value in something like this in the Covid era. If you h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 28, 2020
H/t Artsjournal.com which linked to an article on recent study which found artistic creativity and scientific creativity emerge from a similar source. (my emphasis) "The big change for educa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2020
There has been an ongoing conversation among the arts community that there needs to be less effort invested in selling people on an arts experience and more listening to people to find out w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2020
In the closing plenary of the Arts Midwest/Western Arts Alliance conference, Arts Midwest CEO Torrie Allen spoke to Theaster Gates about a number of topics. What caught my attention was Gate…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AM[SHARE]In September, the National Endowment for the Arts released the results of an Arts Participation survey, Why We Engage: Attending, Creating and Performing Art. Much of the information about w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2020
There was a minor uproar recently in the UK over an ad campaign featuring a picture of a ballerina with text suggesting that her next job could be cyber. The implication a lot of people saw …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2020
Recently I have been talking about how Covid times have brought a greater tolerance on the part of boards/audiences for experimentation with programming choices. I guess I have been talking …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:42PM[SHARE]One of the panel sessions at the recent Arts Midwest-Western Arts Alliance virtual conference was on Reopening. The one panelist that really caught my attention was Anna Glass, Executive Dir…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2020
I mentioned last week that I was in the middle of virtually attending the combined Arts Midwest-Western Arts Alliance Conference. I will probably have a couple entries of observations on par…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2020
Last week Artnet reported that Germany's 2021 draft budget held an increase in funding for cultural organizations in the country. You may recall that I made a post in May that clarified Germ…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PM[SHARE]Two regional arts conferences, Western Arts Alliance and Arts Midwest partnered on offering a single online conference to replace their respective in-person events. I will say right from the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PM[SHARE]The title of today's post references the fact yesterday's post was about cultural funding in Germany. I hadn't planned it this way, but I wanted to draw attention to the lengths various venu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2020
If you have been reading my writing for the last few years, you know that in addition to employing the preceding phrase fairly often, I argue that not everything that can be measured about a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2020
There is a big push, correctly, for arts organizations to employ data driven decision-making processes. However, not all data is of equal value. Colleen Dilenschneider recently made a good p…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:14PM[SHARE] 
