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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…
Writing for SMU DataArts, Doug Noonan recently had a short piece about identifying gig workers and free lancers in the creative industry which are usually missed by federal surveys. He notes…
I have been reading and writing about Basic Guaranteed Income programs for quite a number of years. I was interested to see that Ireland decided to make their Basic Artist Income program per…
So a little bit of good news out of Chicago. For a few years now I have been posting data showing how visitation at arts organizations compares to 2019 numbers. Some organization types are a…
Last week Alan Harrison did an analysis on Donor Advised Funds (DAF), the relative value of the funds disbursed and some of the loopholes provided by DAFs. One of the things he notes is that…
Oregon Arts Watch (h/t Artsjournal.com) provided some insight into a state advocacy group's two year plan to propose a redesign of the state's funding arts model in light of the national pol…
The National Independent Venue Association released the results of their first survey showing the economic impact of independent venues in each of the 50 states and Washington D.C.. The info…
For two weekends this month, the local Creative District is operating their annual artist studio tours. There are other associated activities, but the artists' opening their spaces for peopl…
About twice a month Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience release some interesting data they have compiled about trends they are seeing that may impact arts and cultural…
Tyler Cowen of the Marginal Revolution blog posted a short video meant as a preview of a long movie project discussing how we have eliminated ordinary beauty from our lives in the name of ef…
Over the last two years I have been monitoring the story of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony which abruptly declared bankruptcy taking the musicians who had just negotiated a raise completely…
Last week, the Arts Management program at American University released a series of video interviews with the former chairs of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) on the occasion of the…
Hyperallergic had a story about a couple casino developers who offered to build museums as part of a bid open some casinos in NYC. According to the story, one would have developed a $15 mill…
I have been holding an article in reserve for quite awhile as I waited for the Halloween season to roll around. 10 years ago this week Atlas Obscura had an article about why theaters place g…
Economist Tyler Cowen was interviewed by his colleague Alex Taborrak about Cowen's 1998 book, In Praise of Commercial Culture . (Transcript) Apparently this was the book that put Cowen on…
This seems to be the week for pictures on the old blog. About a month ago I wrote about an effort to use art projects to mitigate the impact of road construction occurring across five blocks…
I have written a number of posts in the last year about the value of labels in exhibits. There are a number of people who don't think they are of much use visitors. The opinions of those who…
Earlier this summer Colorado Public Radio (CPR) ran a story about how high school theater teachers are focusing instruction on the technical aspects of their discipline in order to tap into …
SMU DataArts released their National Trends study for 2025 in the last couple weeks. At first there is a brief flicker of optimism when you read that earned and contributed revenue is return…
Seth Godin recently made a post on the question of "Who Is It For?" as a measure of the success of an endeavor. He says that while the concept of "maximizing shareholder value" is often cite…
Funding cuts for Philadelphia's transit system known as SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority) is causing a lot of concern around that city. SEPTA runs both trains and bu…
Via a LinkedIn post by Rainer Glaap, I was disappointed to learn that Germany's KluturPass program is being discontinued. (In German but most browsers can translate pretty well.) The program…
