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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…