I wanted to brag a bit on my staff today. For about a year now I have been talking about making our promotional materials and operational habits focused more toward attendees rather than inw…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PM[SHARE]Seth Godin recently made a post reminding us that even those who seem like they are well-established in their career as artists may not feel that secure. He cites an article on a recent docu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:36PM[SHARE]Seth Godin made a post recently suggesting that the most effective persuasion occurs when we persuade ourselves. The purpose of the memo or the table or the graph or the presentation is to c…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AM[SHARE]Some pretty compelling evidence that we should be encouraging people to participate in arts and cultural activities with family and friends. Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACT re…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AM[SHARE]A few years ago I wrote a post about how actors were discovering that how many followers you had on social media was being taken into account during casting decisions. Vox recently had an ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18PM[SHARE]Last month Vox had a piece by Courtney Tenz about how to interpret art. It isn't the sort of article you can simply link a social media post to for your audiences to read. One of Tenz's core…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:02PM[SHARE]A nod to Erick Deshaun Dorris for the link to a Guardian article about how ticket resellers are leveraging the hatred being directed at Ticketmaster to manipulate legislation to their benefi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:42PM[SHARE]The Chronicle of Philanthropy had an article written by the co-executive directors of the Building Movement Project (BMP) which focuses on non-profit leadership issues. I have been writing a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:02AM[SHARE]I have been writing about the importance of providing audience focused marketing and experiences for a number of years now. These three links are just representative of the hundreds of p…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AM[SHARE]There was a really interesting article in Dance Magazine about artists using American Sign Language (ASL) as part of dance performances or to underscore movement in shows. One choreographer,…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PM[SHARE]Rainer Glaap, an arts administrator working in Germany reached out with an update about the publication of his second book whose title translates as Knitting Forbidden! The book covers laws …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PM[SHARE]This past Friday, February 23 marked the 20th anniversary of this blog. While Drew McManus often remembers the anniversary better than I do, I did recall the anniversary was coming up prior …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:02PM[SHARE]I was walking through a building lobby when I noticed a table with a pamphlet discouraging people from painting murals on their brick buildings. My first thought was that this city departmen…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PM[SHARE]Seth Godin recently made a post citing a Brookings Institution survey series that showed a decline in confidence in multiple institutions and companies since 2018.  Godin notes that s…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AM[SHARE]So hattip to Ruth Hartt who linked to a piece by David Taylor who argues that we shouldn't be linking the lack of music education in schools to diminishing audiences for classical music. He …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PM[SHARE]I happened across an Aeon article earlier this month featuring a video by the Victoria and Albert Museum displaying and discussing Valentine's Day. I thought folks might enjoy learning about…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:36AM[SHARE]Artsjournal.com linked to a Hudson Review piece by poet and former NEA Chair, Dana Gioia, talking about how he became entranced by opera and classical music as a child, but realized it was n…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:32PM[SHARE]One of the ways communities are using arts and creativity to revitalize buildings and downtown districts are murals on buildings. However, not all surfaces are suited for murals. The best in…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Last August, I called attention to the dwindling number of qualified piano tuners posing a threat to arts organizations' ability to host concerts. Along those same lines, Artsjournal.com…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PM[SHARE]Last month Drew McManus posted on ArtsHacker warning about changes that Yahoo and Gmail are implementing this month that will shunt a greater number of emails to spam folders unless you take…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PM[SHARE]I was kinda thrilled to hear the melodious voice of conductor Bill Eddins on the Marketplace Morning Report this morning. Bill had written the Sticks and Drones blog here on Inside the Arts …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PM[SHARE]Yesterday I cited a Seth Godin post about rethinking how we measure work productivity. Around the same time he made a post along the same lines noting that while strictly following instr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AM[SHARE]Long time readers know that I resist the use of economic impact as a measure of value for arts and culture for many reasons. The late potter-philosopher Carter Gillies was really effective i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AM[SHARE]Just before Christmas Broadway producer Ken Davenport called attention to an issue which may or may not impact Broadway attendance starting later this year. Starting this Spring, congestion …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AM[SHARE]Title of the post today is intentionally leveraging a statement in a study conducted by Jennifer Novak-Leonard and Rachel Skaggs for the National Endowment for the Arts of public perception …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48PM[SHARE]Last week, NPR Reporter Andrew Limbong interviewed Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again. Limbong observed that while he has the impulse to roll his eyes at th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:36PM[SHARE]I came across a study conducted by researchers at Drexel University , (well one is an alum that teaches at University of San Diego), on whether using the self-checkout lane at a supermarket …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PM[SHARE]Back in November, I had written about allegations of harassment by the administration of the Cleveland Ballet of one of their teachers due to body weight issues. I thought that would more or…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:48AM[SHARE]Long time readers know I tend to pay attention to news about guaranteed basic income programs, particularly those that have artists as a target group. Thanks to a CityLab link to a story on …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:36PM[SHARE]I think Art in Public Places staff for any community have one of the most difficult jobs in the arts, particularly when it comes to public perception of the job they do. While everyone a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:02AM[SHARE]I came across a link to a post on the Alliance of American Art Museums website about the Clyfford Still Museum's efforts to make their facility a welcoming option for bringing kids as young …
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