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]Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Quick post today since I am going to link to something longer worth reading. The venue I run is associated with a university across town that made things right for an alum after it was defer…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36PM[SHARE]I just want to take a moment to brag on some museum friends and also reinforce the idea that one shouldn't discount the experiences found in small towns as of lower quality. Long time reader…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2020
I knew Ruth Bader Ginsburg loved opera. There are stories about her and Justice Scalia's friendship and shared love of opera. A few weeks ago, I had written about the artistic director of th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2020
As I was driving into work today, I heard an NPR story about the 92nd St Y, an event/education space in NYC, and how they have gone virtual during Covid-19. According to NPR, in a typica…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2020
h/t to Artsjournal.com (I believe) which linked to an article about creativity from the Chinese perspective, or at least perspective of the philosopher(s) known as Zhuangzi. This is a view t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2020
There was an article on San Francisco Classical Voice website on September 1 about racism in classical music titled "The Last Water Fountain: The Struggle Against Systemic Racism in Classica…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Many have probably heard about the Broadway productions in South Korea which only experienced a brief shutdown thanks to the swift and fairly comprehensive measures the government and produc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PM[SHARE]Monday, September 14, 2020
Today Drew McManus had a post on Adaptistration titled "In the Age Of COVID, Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention." This was pretty timely because I had my own tale of adapting to the times …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2020
A post on ye olde Twitter feed led me to a piece on The Globe & Mail site structured as a conversation between J. Kelly Nestruck (theatre critic) and Kate Taylor (visual art critic). In …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2020
I saw an article about an interview with Kimberly Drew on Slate that I really liked. Drew had a book come out, This Is What I Know About Art . What grabbed my attention was Drew defining …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2020
It was with some sorrow that I learned this week that a great man who has literally been part of the grassroots effort to provide arts experiences to young people died last week. Albert Appe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Drew McManus has recently rolled out a video podcast on the Adaptistration site with the goal of addressing topics facing the orchestra business. Today, he posted the second episode title, A…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:32PM[SHARE]A little background. I have had a Facebook account since ~2011 but I only created it so I could access and control my organizational Facebook pages. There are a very small number of people I…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2020
I am guessing it isn't any news that a lot of arts and cultural organizations are struggling financially and grappling with the challenges presented by Covid-19. I mean, there is a lobbying …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2020
A recent study looking at a connection between influenza mortality and professional sports leagues provides some insights into the possible impact of the more highly contagious Covid-19 viru…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2020
This past weekend the Macon Film Festival held one of their few live screenings of this year in my theater. (The rest of the festival content is being streamed.) They showed The Sound of Ide…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2020
Collen Dilenschneider most a recent post about the factors that influence a cultural organization's reputation. In order they are: Favorability, Mission Execution, Onsite Experience, Stabili…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2020
While I am not really plugged into the visual arts gallery/museum world, one topic I have seen come up repeatedly is the sense that the creator of a piece should realize some benefit when th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2020
If you have read this blog for any length of time, you probably know that my gold standard for speeches about creative practice is one made by Ira Glass. This being said, the TED site recent…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:32AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2020
Not long ago I saw a link on Artsjournal.com to a short news piece saying a study found music won't make people smarter. I sought out the study in on the Memory & Cognition journal websi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:12AM[SHARE]This week Vu Le at the Nonprofit AF wrote a pretty thought provoking post about the way the left-leaning non-profit sector consumes, rather than supports, its leaders as more conservative fo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:12AM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2020
Nina Simon was recently a guest on a podcast hosted by Culture Reset. As always, I find anything she has to say increases my contemplation about the way arts organizations, including my own,…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 6, 2020
Via Artsjournal.com, on Arts & Culture Texas site, Tarra Gaines gives name to the difference between live and streamed performance. (my emphasis) Amid this deluge of performance art offe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2020
If readers have been paying close attention, you probably know I currently run an historic theater in Macon, GA. Last week, the Macon Arts Alliance released the cultural master plan the comm…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2020
I had a post today on ArtsHacker with the click-baity title, You Can't Just Let People Tear Your Clothes Off Anymore. The post talks about the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Empl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2020
Recently, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the union which has members working in performing arts venues, convention centers, movies, and television productions,…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2020
I am sure a lot of people are wondering what other people are doing about performances as you plan for the day you can actually start again. Classicfm.com shared a number of images and video…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:54AM[SHARE]From the "more things change, the more things stay the same," whose life do you think this describes? ….she is particularly sharp-eyed, and refreshing, on the practicalities that shape any…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:54AM[SHARE]I have had a little bit of survey fatigue so I haven't been keeping up with Colleen Dilenschneider's ongoing updates on audiences willingness to return to cultural organizations. As a result…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Daniel Pink tweeted about a mentorship study conducted by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University this week. While the study was conducted on scientists, I have to think …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PM[SHARE] 
