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In October the National Endowment for the Arts Quick Study podcast (transcript available) took a look at how arts participation broke down across the United States via data collected in 2022…
For the record, I am not on the side of singing along with the movie in the theater. That said, I think it is to the theater world's credit that there is a notable debate raging about whethe…
We are constantly told about the hazards of inputting sensitive personal data into unsecure websites. That is pretty much what you are doing when you provide information to an AI bot and ask…
Via Arts and Letters Daily is an article by Bailey Sincox about how theater tickets and programs, long regarded as ephemera are becoming increasingly ephemeral thanks to technology. Tickets …
Seth Godin recently wrote about how, as an MBA student at Stanford, he went into an interview with the CEO of Activision waving a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article and claiming Activisio…
A year ago I wrote about how the musicians of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony were blindsided by the organization declaring bankruptcy. There had been no communication prior to the decla…
The National Endowment for the Arts recently released the arts related results of the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey. Unlike the Survey on Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) whi…
Museums As Progress sponsored a talk with John Falk today on a chapter from his upcoming book Leaning Into Value: Becoming a User-Focused Museum. The chapter addressed the value of data …
Ruth Hartt had reposted an Observer debating what sort of information and how much makes for a good museum label. It immediately occurred to me that this can be a tall order based on the fac…
It has been a few years since I posted anything about the Wormfarm Institute so I was happy to read a Hyperallergic post via Artsjournal.com about Wormfarm's annual Farm/Art D'tour which…
At one of my previous positions, I had started a conversation with a local storytelling group about partnering on a curated storytelling series. This conversation happened a month before the…
Daniel J. Levitin had a piece in The Walrus this month where he goes on at length about how music is therapy. In the middle of the article were a couple paragraphs that suggested the dividin…
Dave Wakeman's appearance on Angela Meleca's ARTS Redefined podcast was making the rounds of LinkedIn last week. One section in particular where Wakeman discussed his opposition to discounti…
Last month, the Bloemencorso Zundert, caught my attention. It is the largest flower parade in the world held in Zundert, Netherlands. Twenty hamlets compete to have their parade float judged…
The National Endowment for the Arts asked a number of different people to respond to the 2022 Surveys of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). One of those asked to respond was Everette T…
Pretty interesting article on The Conversation about how different types of music can help or hinder cognitive activity. The target audience for the article it primarily students in relation…
The National Endowment for the Arts recently released data showing that the number of adults and children (most of the data from surveys of 9 and 13 year olds) has been decreasing over the l…
h/t to my friend Tonja Khabir for linking to a CNN piece about Yamilée Toussaint, the founder of STEM for Dance, a program which integrates dance with STEM subjects to encourage girls of co…
In honor of former President Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday, I thought I would share a piece that appeared in ArtsATL about Carter's interaction and appreciation for the arts. The article ini…
Over the last decade or so, I have been pleased to periodically read articles about people taking up dance classes as adults. As someone who advocates for people to recognize they have the c…
Seth Godin recently wrote that while many professions are just as important as they were 30-50 years ago, the basic skills required for those professions have changed. Pharmacists no lon…
h/t Artsjournal.com which posted a story about the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council's (GPAC) heartfelt admission that it hadn't been an effective administrator of arts programs. CEO Patrick F…
I have made a number of posts over the years on the practice of contextomy which is the practice of selectively editing quotes, often in connection with movie and show reviews, to make it ap…
Seth Godin recently made a post in which he stated the following: The end of the trail is usually difficult, but without the long and winding approach, there isn't much of a mountain. The gr…
There was some disappointing news a week or so ago when the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) announced the sunsetting after 28 years of the National Theater Project and National Da…
