Monday, May 5, 2014
Seth Godin had a post today about origin stories, noting that each of the successes he cites has a different origin story. They didn’t follow the same path as someone else to achieve w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2014
One situation I meant to acknowledge in my post yesterday about whether proximity to others doing creative work spurred your own innovation was (for want of a better term) Steve Jobs’ …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 29, 2014
When it comes to stimulating your creativity to create new work, is it better to live in a place that bustling with other creative activity or working alone outside of the influence of other…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2014
Last week Drew McManus wrote a post about the value society places on arts practitioners. He referenced an article he saw in a You’ve Cott Mail newsletter about a teacher who urged kid…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2014
I am sure by this late hour of 6:00 pm EDT, everyone must be aware that today is the observed 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth. This morning I caught a story on NPR abo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
The Spring Issue of Arts Presenters’ Inside the Arts is out. When I first got the hard copy version, I quickly scanned through to see if there was any mention of my former colleague, L…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:06PM[SHARE]Monday, April 21, 2014
There was a good example of the importance of good leadership and management in the context of orchestras in a recent post on The Drucker Exchange. Although the post starts out using the exa…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
This week Marginal Revolution blog linked to a study addressing the claim of many donors that they are motivated to give by the effectiveness of the charity. The researchers worked with the …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
I wanted to call attention to John Luther Adams today. It may have escaped your notice that he won a Pulitzer Prize for Music yesterday for his composition, “Become Ocean.” (samp…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:41PM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Some interesting thoughts on the purposes of boards in the blogosphere today. Laura Zabel makes some “bored assumptions” about the primary purpose of boards suggesting that passi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Came across an interesting artist residency program that is currently soliciting applications about two weeks ago. Cabin Time describes itself as “a roaming creative residency to remot…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:22PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
Last week I was thinking about alternative category names for giving levels because our current names lean heavily toward classical music while that is only a small portion of our programmin…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Just as an interesting look at how things are done elsewhere, here is a picture of prospective students taking an entrance exam for art school in Hainan. Clicking on the image below will tak…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 1, 2014
In a Guardian article last summer talking about the intersections between art and science, “scientist with one foot in the arts” Simon Kirby noted of culture of peer review in th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:42PM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
I have been keeping a Createquity post about gamification and arts events bookmarked on my web brower for while now. I liked some of the ideas suggested there and hoped to refer back to the …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Long time readers will know that I frequently counsel not jumping on the newest technological gizmo bandwagon too quickly lest you dilute your efforts fruitlessly across too many efforts. Wh…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Monday night I went to the library to return a couple books. I had finished the second book in a series and wanted to read the third, but I had checked and knew the library didn’t have…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:17PM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
Seth Godin recently made a post that provides a good summary of how value influences the way consumers view price. “It’s too expensive,” almost never means, “there is…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2014
From the “We Should Steal This Idea…” file, The Guardian has been running a series that is essentially the newspaper version of a career day, called “How Do I Become&…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Really interesting story out of Australia via Non Profit Quarterly. The Arts Minister has asked the Australia Council to develop a policy penalizing arts organizations who refuse private fun…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:26PM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2014
There was a TED Radio segment that aired back in October that hit so many of the conversation points in the arts today: recognizing failure, serving communities and funder priorities. The to…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Playwright Mike Lew criticizes the logic behind blaming a lack of arts education for a decreasing attendance at arts events. Take the basic argument of "We need more theater in schools so mo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Ken Davenport recently talked about how he enjoyed Broadway shows much more when he was younger. Part of the reason he has a harder time now is because he analyzes the show with the eye of a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:02PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2014
Last summer there were a number of stories about how the Seoul city government installed a giant ear sculpture into which citizens could make comments. The ear was served something of a dual…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Often we use some really general terms when referencing the people who support our organizations which tends to make us think of them as monolithic entity. Having written this blog for 10 ye…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
I hadn’t really intended for this to be a “Government and the Arts” themed week on my blog when I wrote about the search for a director of the NEA yesterday, but it seems t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:41PM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2014
Near the end of 2013 I started seeing quite a few blog posts and tweets criticizing the Obama administration for not appointing someone to replace Rocco Landesman as chair of the National En…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
One of the more intriguing ideas I have come across in my 10 years of blogging is the Artist Pension Trust which has artists deposit their work into across the course of 20 years with the pr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Last week, Americans for the Arts held a blog salon on Rural Arts.  There were a lot of familiar names and faces with posts by Wormfarm Institute and Springboard for the Arts’ ru…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:43PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
So Drew McManus beat me to it, Butts in the Seats turned 10 on Sunday. It was February 23, 2004 when I made my first post. Now here I am nearly 1500 posts later, still going pretty strong. …
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