Wednesday, September 17, 2025
This seems to be the week for pictures on the old blog. About a month ago I wrote about an effort to use art projects to mitigate the impact of road construction occurring across five blocks…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AMMonday, September 15, 2025
I have written a number of posts in the last year about the value of labels in exhibits. There are a number of people who don’t think they are of much use visitors. The opinions of those w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42PMThursday, September 11, 2025
Earlier this summer Colorado Public Radio (CPR) ran a story about how high school theater teachers are focusing instruction on the technical aspects of their discipline in order to tap into …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:03AMWednesday, September 10, 2025
SMU DataArts released their National Trends study for 2025 in the last couple weeks. At first there is a brief flicker of optimism when you read that earned and contributed revenue is return…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:36AMMonday, September 8, 2025
Seth Godin recently made a post on the question of “Who Is It For?” as a measure of the success of an endeavor. He says that while the concept of “maximizing shareholder value” is of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PMWednesday, September 3, 2025
Funding cuts for Philadelphia’s transit system known as SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority) is causing a lot of concern around that city. SEPTA runs both trains and …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:32PMTuesday, September 2, 2025
Via a LinkedIn post by Rainer Glaap, I was disappointed to learn that Germany’s KluturPass program is being discontinued. (In German but most browsers can translate pretty well.) The progr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:06PMWednesday, August 27, 2025
Folks may remember that in June 2024 the University of the Arts in Philadelphia pretty abruptly announced they were closing after about 150 years in operation. This came as a shock to facult…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PMEarlier this month, Hyperallergic had a short article about a video that actor Steve Martin made for the Frick Collection in NYC. What I appreciated was the way the information in the video …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:48AMMonday, August 25, 2025
You may not have heard about the Savannah Bananas baseball team. Or rather it may be more accurate to say Banana Ball team because they play a game that is a heavily altered version of baseb…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PMThursday, August 21, 2025
Colleen Dilenschneider and her colleagues at IMPACTS Experience recently released data on social media engagement for cultural organizations. If you don’t intend to read any further in thi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AMWednesday, August 20, 2025
While I was scrolling through Reddit this weekend, I came across a post about a doctor’s office in the San Diego area prescribing visits to the New Children’s Museum for the poster’s 4…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMTuesday, August 19, 2025
When I saw that Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience had posted data about whether Democrats and Republicans feel differently about cultural organizations (subscription…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMThursday, August 14, 2025
I haven’t written about any of his posts for a couple years, but I have been following Gordon Firemark’s entertainment law blog for 15 years, if not longer. At one point he wasn’t post…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:32PMTuesday, August 12, 2025
Last month I wrote about an article on the Metropolitan Museum of Art that appeared in Yale University’s The Business Behind The Art series. Another article that caught my eye was about th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PMMonday, August 11, 2025
Over the last dozen years I have frequently written about Springboard for the Arts’ Irrigate initiative where they organized 600 artists to provide activity along the construction route fo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMWednesday, August 6, 2025
Came across a press release about a study conducted on Gen Z and Millennial perceptions of Broadway. The provocative title suggested that Broadway wasn’t overpriced, but rather undervalued…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:32PMLast week I wrote about a series of case studies on small arts and cultural organizations creating community advisory groups referenced in an Arts Midwest newsletter. Another set of stories …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:32PMThursday, July 31, 2025
Arts Midwest sent out their monthly newsletter this week which included stories they had published on their website during July. One of the pieces was a quick set of case studies of small ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:03AMWednesday, July 30, 2025
I am not sure how I came across it, but Yale University’s School of Management published a series of stories about The Business Behind The Arts. One of the stories briefly profiled Daniel …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:42AMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Last month Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience provided an analysis of exhibit and performing arts audiences from the perspective of age. (sub required) It will come a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:12AMWednesday, July 23, 2025
Last week Seth Godin made a post about how companies use technicalities in their terms of service (TOS) to generate more revenue after quoting a low initial price. There was one statement he…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:06PMTuesday, July 22, 2025
This is definitely anecdotal rather than backed by any data, but based upon observations across a few decades and working at three-four different organizations, there seems to be a degree of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:36AMThursday, July 17, 2025
Following up on my post yesterday about how an improv program for members of the NY City Police Department has resulted in better interactions with the public. There was an NPR story this we…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:32AMWednesday, July 16, 2025
Last month the NY Times had a story about a theater company in Brooklyn which had been running a 10 week improv program for the police department since 2014. The goal has been help officers …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:06AMTuesday, July 15, 2025
A couple weeks ago I caught a news story about the California legislature restoring funding to a program which was focused on helping arts organizations make payroll after a 2019 state law r…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMThursday, July 3, 2025
Early last month I saw a story about a giant pencil being sharpened in a Minneapolis suburb. Apparently a few years back the owners of a storm damaged oak tree on their front lawn had the id…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AMWednesday, July 2, 2025
There was a brief mention that came across my social media feed about the Philly Pops reclaiming their name after performing as No Name Pops for a number of years. Curious to learn what that…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMTuesday, July 1, 2025
The New York Philharmonic held a concert in the borough of Queens a recent weekend. The performance was under the direction of guest conductor, soon to be music and artistic director of the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMWednesday, June 25, 2025
According to a recent article in the Washington Post, while male attendance at Broadway shows generally hovers around 1/3 of audiences, a recent slate of plays labeled as “Bro Shows,” ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMGovernment agencies tend to have a reputation for being dull, unimaginative, and rule bound. Speaking from experience, I can confirm there is good reason for that reputation. I have to say t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42AM 
