Tuesday, January 8, 2013
NPR recently teamed up with the TED people to present the TED Radio Hour which takes three TED talks on a similar theme to revisits them with the speakers. The one I heard run this weekend w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2013
I often tell people that it surprises me what postings take off. There are things I write that I think are really insightful that barely get any notice. Other posts that I just dash off afte…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Today is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. If you saw Spielberg’s movie, Lincoln, you will know that there were many concerns about the legality of trying to make…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:06PM[SHARE]Monday, December 31, 2012
A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I often mis-credit my role in my 8th grade play as the start of involvement in performance and that it all really started when my siblings and I put on pl…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2012
I was intrigued to see that the Scion car company is running a contest to help cultivate new entrepreneurs. Scion has always positioned themselves as a lifestyle brand, (disclaimer: I own on…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:03PM[SHARE]Monday, December 24, 2012
I am guessing (and hoping) people have more on their mind this Christmas Even than arts administration. I will pick up with posting on that topic on Wednesday or thereabouts. In the meantime…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The approach of the holidays provides me with a little more free time so I have been catching up on my “come back to and read” list. I got to reading a piece by Non-Profit Law bl…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2012
On the Harvard Business Review blog site, Anne Kreamer asks “What If You Don’t Want to Be a Manager?” (h/t Daniel Pink) where she talks a little about the alienation one mi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:19PM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2012
Producer David Binder did a short TED Talk about arts festivals. He mentions a number of new festivals which are engaging directly with communities in site specific events. However, it was t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2012
I had meant to post this link a few weeks ago, but you know how things get around the holidays. Back in May, Jeff Brooks at Future Fundraising Now listed 20 Mistakes that Drive Away Donation…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:06PM[SHARE]Seeing and hearing about people queuing up this year for Black Friday sales on the Monday prior reminded me about an article Tim Roberts wrote on Fullhouses.org this September. In it, Robert…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:44AM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2012
Last month, Drew McManus posted that we need another Abraham Lincoln. He didn’t go into many details, but I wonder what he could be thinking. Since he suggests replacing Henry Ford wit…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Some data on the most successful of President Obama’s fundraising letters is really destroying what I thought I knew about constructing emails. It turns out, the most informal subject …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The Boston Globe recently had an article on theatre etiquette listing strategies for audience members to use when attending performances to avoid causing any problems and to deal with those …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:19PM[SHARE]Thai-Klingon cellist Jon (J’onn) Silpayamanant commented today on a post I did on economist Tyler Cowen’s discussion of Baumol's cost disease as it relates to the arts. He quickl…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Thomas Cott’s recent round up of stories raising questions about whether arts organizations should accept funding from energy companies which are poisoning the environment through oil …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:36PM[SHARE]Yesterday I alluded to one of my pet marketing peeves, the claim that a work of art reveals “what it means to be human.” The phrase has mercifully fallen out of frequent usage th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:09AM[SHARE]Monday, November 26, 2012
A story on the Slate website revived the question of “what is art?” for me covering a “No Longer Art” exhibition at Columbia University. On display are damaged works …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2012
I am traveling for Thanksgiving so no lengthy post today. I am sure most of my readers are eager to enter the arms of their loved ones. One of the small pleasures I receiving during my morni…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The news of Hostess Bakeries making good on their threat to liquidate in the face of a baker strike reminded me of You’ve Cott Mail’s “Is bankruptcy the answer for arts mon…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:43PM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2012
In my last entry, I cited the pitfalls of providing too great a forum for feedback and expectations about how that input will be addressed. I think we all recognize though that as arts organ…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2012
One of the primary rules of surveying people is to avoid asking questions about things that you have no intention or ability to follow through on. A corollary to that is; and don’t do …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Thomas Cott recently included a link to a story about dance and visual arts that I found extremely intriguing. The article starts with a quote from Ralph Lemon, "I wait," he said, "for the d…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:49PM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2012
The Drucker Exchange has an animated interpretation of a speech Jim Collins (Good to Great, Built to Last) delivered in 2009. The speech is titled “Ten To-Dos For Young People” b…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2012
Last month the LA Stage Times had a two part series on work and the arts. One was on jobs at alternative theatres, but the one that piqued my interest was about the benefits former arts mana…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Now that the election is drawing to a close, I think all non-profit arts organizations, especially those in battleground states, should go out tomorrow and ask media companies for donations.…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:32PM[SHARE]Digital media seems to creep ever more closely to threaten the practice of physically attending live performance. Last month I got an email soliciting submissions for the WiredArts Festival,…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2012
Hat tip to Rosetta Thurman for linking to a valuable article about the care and feeding of Development Directors on the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Carol Weisman wrote “5 Ways to Lose Y…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2012
A month ago while discussing audience participation and Great Lakes Theater Company Artistic Director’s feeling that babyboomers rather than young people craved interactive experiences…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Hartford Courant columnist Frank Rizzo recently suggested an interesting subscription alternative, MyStage Accounts, that is something akin to the flex subscription or monthly membership pas…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2012
Last year my assistant theatre manager gave me a calendar of Japanese wood block prints from MFA Boston. Most of the works included are several hundred years old and have really enjoyed look…
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