2,243 stories by "Joe Patti"
Imagine, just as you have gotten with the times and started to effectively use social media to communicate and engage with younger audiences, the tool is yanked away. That is kinda what is h…
A recent report in The Art Newspaper addressed an issue of which I was entirely unaware " Visual artists are essentially being forced to pay for their own shows as a result of so much fundin…
Pretty much every public event space, including theaters, will receive questions about the accessibility of their spaces and programs. There are even more questions when the space is a histo…
Hyperallergic had a great article for artists who are trying to establish their careers later in life. Author Paddy Johnson answers concerts about fitting in with younger, apparently better …
The Wall Street Journal had an article about how Companies Are Desperately Seeking Storytellers. In some cases this seems to be a re-titling of social media, public relations, marketing, pod…
I mentioned last week that Arts Midwest sent out a year in review newsletter recently. In addition to the laundromat turned laundrobar in Columbus, OH that has taken a place in that city's m…
Totally off my radar until I saw a LinkedIn post by April Clark. Starting December 24, 2025 your local post office will no longer postmark outgoing mail. The postmark will be places on the m…
Yes, 'tis the season for ticket scams I am afraid. My venue often sees an uptick in complaints around the holidays. We often attribute it to the fact we have people attending events at our v…
Arts Midwest sent out a year in review newsletter this week. I was pleased to see there were some stories they had shared I had missed. One was about Dirty Dungarees, a laundromat in Columbu…
Fast Company has leaned into the Christmas season with an article on three financial lessons from the movie, It's A Wonderful Life. In general the tips are oriented toward investing your tim…
Seth Godin made a post recently about what to consider if it appears your marketing efforts aren't yielding desired results: Marketing isn't hype. Marketing is making a product or service th…
h/t Artjournal.com which linked to a story about Lectures On Tap, a program of academic lectures being held in bars around LA, San Francisco, Boston, NYC, and Chicago. There are other simila…
Every so often someone asks where the protest songs are during times of social unrest. Where are the songs commenting on social issues and fears? It occurred to me that a lot of the songs pe…
I saw that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra had a $2 million surplus for their 2025 fiscal year ending August 31 and the largest annual ticket sales since pre-pandemic. I was curious to see…
There was an opinion piece by Damien Davis on Hyperallergic last month addressing the problems with the art world which are missed or glossed over by the news that Christie's auction house s…
About a month ago, Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience made some suggestions for facilitating holiday season experiences based on trends they were seeing in survey dat…
Seth Godin made a post about empathy a few weeks ago that is somewhat apt for the upcoming holiday season. Every hiker is intimately aware of their backpack. They picked it out, choosing fro…
Maybe it is because I have had street construction occurring around my venue since February (reaching my block December 1!) but my interest was piqued when I saw a FastCompany article about …
FastCompany recently had a post by Matt Mandrella, the music officer for Huntsville, AL advocating for cities to support house concerts as a method for stimulating economic and creative vita…
Rainer Glaap recently linked to a story about new legislation in the UK which will prohibit selling tickets for any amount above face value. (Apparently there was discussion about capping it…
Seth Godin recently made a post about recklessness which intersected somewhat with the concept of giving permission for failure, something that is a key element to the creative process. In f…
Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience share some of the latest data regarding how people are becoming increasingly invested in spending their free time at home. She star…
Recently entertainment lawyer Gordon Firemark made a couple posts on Fair Use rules for creators on social media, podcasts, and films. The second one dealt with music sampling on content cre…
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…
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…
