2,261 stories by "Joe Patti"
If you want a lesson in the power of custom and pricing psychology winning over objectively better options, check out this New Yorker piece on failed attempts by restaurants to eliminate tip…
When Daniel Pink tweets that choral singing might be the new exercise, you know I have to investigate even if it is just clickbait. There seems to be some scientific basis to the claim, howe…
Via Artsjournal.com is a piece from the Brookings Institution titled, “An unexpectedly positive result from arts-focused field trips.” After crunching some numbers as part of res…
Recently the Harvard Law School’s Technology and Intellectual Property Legal Clinic recently published a really helpful guide to copyright, trademark and intellectual property rights. …
Yesterday I noted that I was interested to learn that $5 million in revenue was something of a dividing line between theaters which supported themselves primarily by ticket revenue (above $5…
Rob Meiksins had a piece on Non-Profit Quarterly that discussed what the non-profit Second Stage Theater’s recent ownership of the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway might portend in term…
The Guardian had a long read piece on focus groups earlier this month. As I was reading, about how the companies commissioning the focus groups had difficulty accepting the results, I was st…
For about a month now I have been pondering a post Seth Godin made about the limits of empathy and how it might apply to customer relations in an performing arts setting. In the context of a…
A heads up to people who have, (or know people with), innovative ideas using technology to connect people with arts and culture, the Knight Foundation is looking for project ideas via the Kn…
I have been cautioning the non-profit arts community about citing the economic value of the arts for over a decade now. The first time was in 2007. I wrote about it a few times in the interi…
Generous donations to a non-profit can often become more of a burden than a blessing which is why it is important to have a good donation policy and properly evaluate the impact of the donat…
Ken Davenport made a post last month about the way the New York City subway system is shifting their practice. Since more subway riders are able to pay for rides with their credit cards and …
The importance of transition planning is a common topic of discussion for non-profits given current and anticipated retirements. A few years ago we offered a set of guidelines for planning t…
In a recent “Taking Note”, National Endowment for the Arts’Â Director of Research & Analysis, Â Sunil Iyengar mentioned that in the coming year the NEA will commis…
Via Marginal Revolution comes a study about the high levels of creativity in Iceland where: ….1 in 10 adults in the country have published a book, why playing in a band is consider…
Thanks to a partnership between the Akron Art Museum and the Akron-Summit County Public Library, not only can you get a book to place on the nightstand beside your bed, you can also get a pa…
The video of ArtPlace America’s CEO Jamie Bennett’s keynote at an Invest Health convening came across my feed recently. What I found valuable in his speech was that he laid o…
A job listing for a Program Manager at the Armed Services Arts Partnership came across my social media feed today. I might not have followed the link except that I was curious what type of w…
Gotta give a shout out to Non-Profit Quarterly for putting up two theatre related articles yesterday. I wanted to call attention to it to show appreciation for to them for covering arts conc…
It probably isn’t news to anyone these days that popular culture can influence what people perceive to be factual information. While there is a lot of controversy over the intentio…
If you keep hearing how great Finland is, the results they are having might be due, in part, to the problem solving processes they are using. The city of Helsinki developed a board game to f…
If you are like me, you have been excited by the increased quantity and quality of research being made available about arts and culture issues and practices! Even if you aren’t as exci…
One of the more positive developments in the last decade or so has been the increased investment in research about factors that impact arts and cultural organizations. Even better news, …
The Conversation recently had an article about a study that purports to show why some people are more creative than others. The study performed fMRI scans on people while asking them to unde…
The “Why Won’t Broadway Livestream/Broadcast” argument has been going on for awhile now but a recent article on Fast Company suggests that time may be drawing near as Netfl…
