Thursday, September 17, 2020
There was an article on San Francisco Classical Voice website on September 1 about racism in classical music titled “The Last Water Fountain: The Struggle Against Systemic Racism in Classi…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:54PMTuesday, September 15, 2020
Many have probably heard about the Broadway productions in South Korea which only experienced a brief shutdown thanks to the swift and fairly comprehensive measures the government and produc…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:54PMMonday, September 14, 2020
Today Drew McManus had a post on Adaptistration titled “In the Age Of COVID, Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention.” This was pretty timely because I had my own tale of adapting to the ti…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:32PMThursday, September 10, 2020
A post on ye olde Twitter feed led me to a piece on The Globe & Mail site structured as a conversation between J. Kelly Nestruck (theatre critic) and Kate Taylor (visual art critic). In …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:42AMWednesday, September 9, 2020
I saw an article about an interview with Kimberly Drew on Slate that I really liked. Drew had a book come out, This Is What I Know About Art . What grabbed my attention was Drew defining a …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:18AMThursday, September 3, 2020
It was with some sorrow that I learned this week that a great man who has literally been part of the grassroots effort to provide arts experiences to young people died last week. Albert Appe…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:03AMWednesday, September 2, 2020
Drew McManus has recently rolled out a video podcast on the Adaptistration site with the goal of addressing topics facing the orchestra business. Today, he posted the second episode title, A…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:32PMA little background. I have had a Facebook account since ~2011 but I only created it so I could access and control my organizational Facebook pages. There are a very small number of people I…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:32PMThursday, August 27, 2020
I am guessing it isn’t any news that a lot of arts and cultural organizations are struggling financially and grappling with the challenges presented by Covid-19. I mean, there is a lobbyin…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 04:06AMWednesday, August 26, 2020
A recent study looking at a connection between influenza mortality and professional sports leagues provides some insights into the possible impact of the more highly contagious Covid-19 viru…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:48AMTuesday, August 25, 2020
This past weekend the Macon Film Festival held one of their few live screenings of this year in my theater. (The rest of the festival content is being streamed.) They showed The Sound of Ide…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:24PMThursday, August 20, 2020
Collen Dilenschneider most a recent post about the factors that influence a cultural organization’s reputation. In order they are: Favorability, Mission Execution, Onsite Experience, Stabi…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:24AMWednesday, August 19, 2020
While I am not really plugged into the visual arts gallery/museum world, one topic I have seen come up repeatedly is the sense that the creator of a piece should realize some benefit when th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:03AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
If you have read this blog for any length of time, you probably know that my gold standard for speeches about creative practice is one made by Ira Glass. This being said, the TED site recent…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:32AMFriday, August 14, 2020
Not long ago I saw a link on Artsjournal.com to a short news piece saying a study found music won’t make people smarter. I sought out the study in on the Memory & Cognition journal web…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:12AMThis week Vu Le at the Nonprofit AF wrote a pretty thought provoking post about the way the left-leaning non-profit sector consumes, rather than supports, its leaders as more conservative fo…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:12AMMonday, August 10, 2020
Nina Simon was recently a guest on a podcast hosted by Culture Reset. As always, I find anything she has to say increases my contemplation about the way arts organizations, including my own,…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:48PMThursday, August 6, 2020
Via Artsjournal.com, on Arts & Culture Texas site, Tarra Gaines gives name to the difference between live and streamed performance. (my emphasis) Amid this deluge of performance art offe…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:12AMWednesday, August 5, 2020
If readers have been paying close attention, you probably know I currently run an historic theater in Macon, GA. Last week, the Macon Arts Alliance released the cultural master plan the comm…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:54PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
I had a post today on ArtsHacker with the click-baity title, You Can’t Just Let People Tear Your Clothes Off Anymore. The post talks about the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Em…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:24PMMonday, August 3, 2020
Recently, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the union which has members working in performing arts venues, convention centers, movies, and television productions,…
Linked From artshacker.com at 03:00AMFriday, July 31, 2020
I am sure a lot of people are wondering what other people are doing about performances as you plan for the day you can actually start again. Classicfm.com shared a number of images and video…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:54AMFrom the “more things change, the more things stay the same,” whose life do you think this describes? ….she is particularly sharp-eyed, and refreshing, on the practicalities that shape…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:54AMI have had a little bit of survey fatigue so I haven’t been keeping up with Colleen Dilenschneider’s ongoing updates on audiences willingness to return to cultural organizations. As a re…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:54AMWednesday, July 22, 2020
Daniel Pink tweeted about a mentorship study conducted by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University this week. While the study was conducted on scientists, I have to think …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:54PMPerhaps providentially after my post last week about how a professional know their value, I saw a post on HowlRound by Elsa Hiltner which address some of the factors underlying the stereotyp…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:33PMThursday, July 16, 2020
Seth Godin offers a pretty good definition of amateur, professional and hack in a recent post. While I haven’t fully considered all the implications of his definition, I feel like it makes…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:03AMTuesday, July 14, 2020
Troublemaker that Drew McManus is, he suggested that as people return to live performances post-Covid, arts organizations should re-think the hallowed curtain speech. He argues that patrons …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:36PMMonday, July 13, 2020
Non-Profit Quarterly made a post in May that just came across my social media feed today about a weekly Zoom call 200+ arts organizations in NYC are having in order to share information duri…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:12PMWednesday, July 8, 2020
Hat tip to the National Endowment for the Arts for linking to this video of an 11 year old taking The Bob Ross Challenge – basically trying to keep up and replicate Bob Ross’ painting in…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:12PMYou may have seen the news today that the results of the Culture Track Covid-19 report were publicly released today. While some of the data about audience willingness to return to arts and c…
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