Thursday, September 23, 2021
This morning I attended a brand reveal for a Marriott hotel slated to open half a block from my venue in/around January. This particular collection of hotels is highly customized to the comm…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
People working or closely aligned with arts organizations know that a central topic of conversation in recent weeks is whether to require proof of vaccination for audiences. Drew McManus has…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PMTuesday, September 21, 2021
You may have seen last week that CBS quickly shifted directions when their planned show to pit activists against each other in a game show like competition drew extremely negative responses …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:54PMThursday, September 16, 2021
There have been a lot of stories about shows re-opening on Broadway and how important that is to the economy of NYC. While I haven’t read everything single article, one that appeared on Bl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:42AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
My day job is Executive Director of The Grand Opera House in Macon, GA. Around the end of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century, it was vogue to name theaters as Grand Opera …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32AMMonday, September 13, 2021
More great stories of artists being part of infrastructure projects, this time from a Next City article that came out last week. I have written about these type of projects before and one of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48PMThursday, September 9, 2021
For Purpose Law Group posted the second installment of their “Nonprofits: What Not To Do,” series yesterday. The first installment dealt with the infamous Indianapolis Museum of Art job …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06AMWednesday, September 8, 2021
Last week, Sunil Iyengar is the NEA director of the Office of Research & Analysis, penned a piece aligned with the occasion of Labor Day, commenting that the value of art often subtracts…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMWednesday, September 1, 2021
Seth Godin made an interesting post that intersects somewhat with the questions arts organizations are having about putting content on digital platforms. Alas, I don’t know that it provide…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMTuesday, August 31, 2021
Shelterforce posted a video and article about how the term gentrification manifests in different ways and thus doesn’t always conform to the same definition in every community, leading to …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12PMThursday, August 26, 2021
On Friday one of my colleagues at work is flying to NYC to see Springsteen on Broadway, the show that re-opened earlier than pretty much all the others. She purchased the tickets months ago …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:32PMTuesday, August 24, 2021
Drew McManus has started a database of the different policies performing arts venues around the country have enacted. He started it last Friday and announced the 100th entry this morning. …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMAs something of a dovetail to my post yesterday about Drew McManus’ effort to compile a database of performing arts venue vaccination policies, (Drew reported a surge of new entries to the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMThursday, August 19, 2021
Washington Post reported an interesting development in the Washington, D.C. arts and cultural environment last week. The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities asked the D.C. Council to …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AMVia Artsjournal.com is a FastCompany article by Amy Globus whose thesis is that Covid-19 gave the arts world the kick in the butt required to motivate it to think about how to leverage digit…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AMTuesday, August 17, 2021
Hat tip to Georgia Council for the Arts which posted a link to the Smithsonian article, Why Science Needs Art. The article focuses largely on marine life, but the basic gist is that there …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:03AMWednesday, August 11, 2021
Laura Zabel, Executive Director of the awesome Springboard for the Arts posted a important Twitter thread on being mindful about the way you solicit creative work from the community. Are you…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:48AMAccording to CityLab Berliners are returning to the city’s museums, with credit being given to free admission Sundays. Sixty-seven museums are offering free admission which is part of a …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:48AMThursday, August 5, 2021
I had a post appear on ArtsHacker this week that dealt with the concept of rebranding. In the post I cite an article by Mark Ritson arguing for revitalization of a brand rather than rebran…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMAs I go about arguing against using measures like economic impact and test scores for valuing the arts, I occasionally get push back from people who note that for better or for worse dollars…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
For Purpose Law Group made a post on their site advocating shared leadership models for non-profits. They note that there is an increasing recognition that a hierarchical model with a sole…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:48AMMonday, August 2, 2021
When things have been going poorly for an organization and they seek a fresh start, (perhaps upon emerging from a national epidemic), the impulse is often to rebrand. However, in a Marketing…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 11:45AMThursday, July 29, 2021
Being a big proponent of libraries a radio story by Marketplace on the value of libraries caught my attention. Being an economics focused show, their analysis initially focused on return on …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:03AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
Something has been puzzling me lately and I haven’t come any closer to figuring out the answer. I appears to me that when there is discussion about populations which are under-served by th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:32AMMonday, July 26, 2021
An appreciative nod to Artsjournal which posted a piece by Shelly Palmer on how the use of non-fungible tokens (NFT) can enhance event ticketing security, improve the resale market, and pote…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PMSaturday, July 24, 2021
CityLab had an article about an art museum in Bologna, Italy which is using eye tracking to learn how visitors interact with works on display. In the process, the museum has learned unexpect…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PMBig news today from Actors’ Equity Association the union which represents stage actors and stage managers. The union basically immediately opened membership to anyone who has ever worked…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PMI saw an article on CityLab about some pretty successful Open Streets efforts that rose up during Covid. If you aren’t familiar with the concept, Open Streets is a national effort to tem…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PMFriday, July 16, 2021
Yesterday, economist Tyler Cowen addressed one of the dichotomies being recognized in the arts sector – the conflict between values of equity, fairness, diversity, etc., espoused in the ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PMLast week my organization was notified that we were being awarded funds for a grant we wrote to address the issue of blight in our community. The project was inspired by a comment a friend o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PMThe Americans for the Arts blog had an interview with an arts group that was flexing their skills to solve problems in their community. They spoke with Yin Kong, one of the founders of Think…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PM 
