
Via the CityLab newsletter, Politico recently reported that the Lt. Governor of California, Eleni Kounalakis, was among a number of politicians calling upon Taylor Swift to postpone her show…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:33PM[SHARE]On June 25, the TKTS booth in Times Square turned 50. I have written about some precursors to the discount ticketing booth The whole history is pretty fascinating, especially if you view it …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:07PM[SHARE]Last week Washington Post contributor Theodore Johnson reflected back on the first concert he saw when he was 9 years old (The Fat Boys). He noted that due to Covid restrictions, this summer…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:49PM[SHARE]Some disappointing news out of Oregon. Portland is withdrawing support and participation from the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), an independent organization that handles grantin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:07PM[SHARE]Bloomberg had an article about the renovated Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, now rebranded Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Prior to the renovation, the director said people would frequentl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:43PM[SHARE]There was a lot of chatter on the Twittersphere last week (which I guess is the X Corp-sphere now?) over a NY Times editorial that Isaac Butler wrote advocating for the federal government to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:25AM[SHARE]Amid all the stories of arts organizations closing and scaling back, I saw a piece about a dance company in Dallas that has seen their situation improve with virtual and live programming dur…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:04AM[SHARE]About a month ago, I wrote about the Fix the Tix Coalition which is advocating for laws to change exploitative ticket practices. Among the practices they were trying to change is websites ma…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:25PM[SHARE]This morning Arts Emergency, a UK based organization which advocates for the arts & humanities and puts a lot of effort into finding mentors for young creatives, post the following on Tw…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:49PM[SHARE]A post by Jason Lewis who writes The Butterfly Effect on substack suggests taking a donor to lunch is going to be a much better investment of time and resources when it comes to doing a bett…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:19AM[SHARE]I have written before about Ireland's plan to provide a guaranteed basic income for artists. A couple weeks ago, NBC News posted a story about the program on their website. In all, 2000 arti…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:55AM[SHARE]A couple weeks ago in The Globe & Mail, Max Wyman wrote an opinion piece declaring the value of art and culture in Canada shouldn't just be measured by economic standards. Long time read…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AM[SHARE]I am not sure when Culturebot fell off my daily reading list, but the last time I referenced a post was 2014. Thankfully Artsjournal.com linked to a piece by Andy Horowitz this week so the b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:43PM[SHARE]As Pride Month comes to an end, I wanted to call attention to an interesting piece that appeared earlier this month about the history of drag performances in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area du…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:07AM[SHARE]In a sign of an alarming possible trend, the For Purpose Law Group blog cites an observation by the CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits that (my emphasis): ….an "ominous sign" is tha…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:49AM[SHARE]So in an illustration of the importance of the exercise of soft power, the U.S. has agreed to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues to the tune of $600+ million. The US stopped paying dues in 2011…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AM[SHARE]There was a big story in American Theater this week that discussed the challenges theaters were having finding tech staff and designers, and to a lesser extent, sourcing the raw materials th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:04AM[SHARE]A public radio station's report on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's (OSF) finances is a good illustration of how restricted endowments can imperil the health of a non-profit organization. O…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:13PM[SHARE]Fun article I think I found on Artsjournal.com. There is a bar in Portland, OR called Mendelssohn's, run by a descendant of composer Felix Mendelssohn who has some opera and classical mu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:07PM[SHARE]A little over a month ago, I wrote about the newly formed Fix the Tix coalition which is urging the US Congress to pass legislation to protect ticket buyers from exploitative ticket pricing/…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:55AM[SHARE]German arts colleague Rainer Glaap has been feeding me interesting articles over the last couple weeks. I was going to follow up on some content he sent earlier, but he hit me up with an int…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:19AM[SHARE]About a year ago, I wrote about a post Colleen Dilenschneider made showing a link between museum gift shops and museum memberships. She recently wrote a similar piece about how gift shop…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:04AM[SHARE]So as you are getting out there traveling to enjoy the natural beauty of the U.S. National Parks this summer, you may want to take a cautionary note from a case Gordon Firemark wrote about i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:43AM[SHARE]So either the disruptions at performances in the UK are growing increasingly problematic or the topic has become a favorite bete noire of news outlets because I continue to see stories on th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PM[SHARE]It is likely you haven't been able to avoid the seemingly incessant discussion about the negotiations to raise the debt limit. If you haven't been able to muster the zen-like state of lettin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PM[SHARE]Earlier this week the LA Times had a rather lengthy piece on the closing number of the musical Six, a show about the six wives of Henry VIII. In the final number which has come to be kno…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AM[SHARE]Howard Sherman posted a link to a New Yorker article about some intrepid film actors who stumbled upon an overlooked section of the The Screen Actors Guild " American Federation of Televisio…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AM[SHARE]Over the weekend I caught a couple news articles out of the UK about a production which is carving out one performance in their run for black audiences only. The show, Tambo & Bones, whi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AM[SHARE]We were participating in a scavenger hunt for a local 3rd grade class today. The kids were given clues associated with museums, galleries and public art around the downtown area. In addition…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18PM[SHARE]TRG Arts recently released some data showing that not all segments of performing arts have recovered from pandemic shutdowns at the same rate. Comparing four factors from 2019 to 2022:Â T…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PM[SHARE]A link to a great story came across my feed today about a Hawaii Symphony Orchestra's production that was really focused on resonating with the interests of the community they serve. Las…
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