2,273 stories by "Joe Patti"
I came across an article about English towns that are installing "chat benches" with signs saying, "The 'Happy to Chat' Bench: Sit Here If You Don't Mind Someone Stopping To Say Hello." …
When the topic of strategic plans is discussed, there is often an admonishment actively reference the planning documents throughout the plan period rather than drop it on the shelf until it …
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com which posted an NPR story about libraries that are bringing social workers on staff. The main reason is that libraries are serving the role as a community resource…
On Saturday, the Knight Foundation will be issuing a call "for ideas exploring how arts institutions can present immersive experiences to engage audiences" (disclosure: Knight Foundation has…
Via the Marginal Revolution blog, I caught this link to an interesting Financial Times article (registration required) discussing how classical music is at a disadvantage on streaming servic…
I saw a really cool story via Americans for the Arts in May about a partnership between the Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System. They…
If you don't already read Drew McManus' blog Adaptistration, you may want to take a look some of his recent posts as well as the conversation on Facebook that ensued. Drew started out yester…
When I caught the name, "Penis Monologues" out of the corner of my eye, I felt a moment of trepidation that some men's rights group was mounting a show as an aggressive counter to the Vagina…
There was an article in Forbes last month about the glut of empty museums in China. While many museums in the United States have larger collections than they can possibly display, storing th…
My summer vacation this year took me back to China. Unfortunately, I didn't get to meet with China arts administrators on this trip, though I did try to secure some introductions and arrange…
A couple weeks back, Slate had a long form article on people using beta-blockers to help with nervousness and stage fright. Just seeing the title, I immediately recalled a piece Drew McManus…
This will be the last retrospective post of the series covering the time I am on vacation. I should be back at the helm Monday, hopefully with pictures and thoughts to share. I am writing th…
Apparently I watched a lot of TED Talks in 2009 as this seemed to be recurring element in my retrospective posts these couple of weeks. However, this is one I have remembered clearly for the…
So 2009 was long before ArtsMidwest started their Creating Connection initiative and before I started my correspondence with Carter Gillies regarding the value of the arts, but I found a blo…
Over 9 years ago I wrote about a TED Talk given by Golan Levin where he was demonstrating technology that being used to generate images based on sound input. The things he was doing was fun …
I wrote last week about how small nuances that alter our perception of a situation can make a big difference. Back in 2009 I wrote another post along the same lines featuring a TED talk …
As I was looking back in the archives for content to post on while on vacation, I was surprised to see that I was writing back the dangers of the sentiment that "arts organizations should be…
I am going on vacation for a couple weeks so the blog will be featuring some interesting posts from the archives. Back in 2009 I wrote a lengthy article about a Mad Men episode where the ad …
Seth Godin had a post recently where he made the distinction between education and learning. The way he differentiated the two was that education is based in compliance and authority"you…
If you didn't happen to see it rolling around social media or on Artsjournal.com last week, Carolina Performing Arts' festival, The Commons, experimented with a new model of criticism. T…
Around 1600 Shakespeare wrote about brevity being the soul of wit in Hamlet. Roughly 400 years later, phone text messaging and Twitter limited us to the number of characters one could po…
Economist Alex Tabarrok recently made an interesting post on Baumol's cost disease. The concept usually explained by noting that since it doesn't take any less time to perform a string q…
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com who listed an article from The Conversation about how your phone can interrupt a concert experience. Author Christine Van Winkle discusses research she and her tea…
Seth Godin recently wrote a lengthy post on the subject of apologies. He addresses the issue of entities providing insufficient apologies but also the expectation of restitution which is…
All right. A little gripe time here. I have been nursing a sense of dissatisfaction for a couple weeks now but it sort of came to a head when I saw the title of Ceci Dadisman's recent post, …
