Thursday, February 26, 2026
This week Kyle Bowen at Museum as Progress made a lengthy post about why they design their gatherings the way they do. What was interesting to me was how clear they are about what they are t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06AMTuesday, February 24, 2026
In the last couple weeks there have been articles about Ireland making their basic income for artists program permanent. What that means is that around 2000 artists will be randomly chosen b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PMMonday, February 23, 2026
Via Artsjournal.com is a piece on The Critic addressing the trend in thinking art has curative abilities. I have long written about the problem with measuring the value of art in prescriptiv…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMWednesday, February 18, 2026
Ruth Hartt made an insightful post on LinkedIn a few weeks ago which caught my attention. She also mirrored it on her own website. She talked about how boards and staffs of arts organization…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:31AMTuesday, February 17, 2026
Last week, Springboard for the Arts, based in St. Paul, MN posted on LinkedIn about different funds they and others had created and contributed to in order to mitigate the impact of federal …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AMThursday, February 12, 2026
A decade ago when Nina Simon mentioned in a talk she did that not all the programming at a museum was necessarily for everyone, and that is alright, it was an eye opening moment for me. It h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:06AMWednesday, February 11, 2026
Reimagining The Civic Commons (RCC) made a post on Medium about the contribution of even brief passing nods and greetings on the street have in establishing our sense of belonging. They cite…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMTuesday, February 10, 2026
Seth Godin had an interesting take on pricing and market disruption. He noted that books, records, and other products often have uniform pricing that doesn’t really reflect the demand. You…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMWednesday, February 4, 2026
Last month Fast Company had a piece about how digital ticketing hasn’t really stopped fraud as well as people expected. The article talks about how prior to the NFL going to digital ticket…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:31AMTuesday, February 3, 2026
This weekend a newsletter from the Master of Management in International Arts Management program caught my eye with a research piece titled Predicting Museum Visitors’ Intention Through No…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:02AMThursday, January 29, 2026
You may have heard about the abrupt and somewhat controversial firing of Philadelphia Art Museum director and CEO Sasha Suda back in November. Recently Philadelphia Magazine published a long…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMWednesday, January 28, 2026
I am always keeping an eye open for different ways arts organizations can employ meaningful measures of impact. AEA Consulting listed different impact evaluation tools and criteria being use…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMTuesday, January 27, 2026
Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience have been dependable as always and recently provided a market outlook for arts and cultural organizations for 2026 & 2027 based…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMThursday, January 22, 2026
h/t to Anne Smith who posted this video on Linkedin of Ethan Hawke talking about giving yourself permission to be creative. For me the big impactful statement he makes is that everyone think…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36AMWednesday, January 21, 2026
There’s a kinda meme image circulating where a person says they had imagined a future where AI made her work easier so that she had more time for creative leisure. Instead, AI is being use…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:02AMThursday, January 15, 2026
Imagine, just as you have gotten with the times and started to effectively use social media to communicate and engage with younger audiences, the tool is yanked away. That is kinda what is h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMWednesday, January 14, 2026
A recent report in The Art Newspaper addressed an issue of which I was entirely unaware – Visual artists are essentially being forced to pay for their own shows as a result of so much fund…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, January 13, 2026
Pretty much every public event space, including theaters, will receive questions about the accessibility of their spaces and programs. There are even more questions when the space is a histo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMTuesday, January 6, 2026
Hyperallergic had a great article for artists who are trying to establish their careers later in life. Author Paddy Johnson answers concerts about fitting in with younger, apparently better …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PMMonday, January 5, 2026
The Wall Street Journal had an article about how Companies Are Desperately Seeking Storytellers. In some cases this seems to be a re-titling of social media, public relations, marketing, pod…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMTuesday, December 30, 2025
I mentioned last week that Arts Midwest sent out a year in review newsletter recently. In addition to the laundromat turned laundrobar in Columbus, OH that has taken a place in that city’s…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMTotally off my radar until I saw a LinkedIn post by April Clark. Starting December 24, 2025 your local post office will no longer postmark outgoing mail. The postmark will be places on the m…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AMWednesday, December 24, 2025
Yes, ’tis the season for ticket scams I am afraid. My venue often sees an uptick in complaints around the holidays. We often attribute it to the fact we have people attending events at our…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMTuesday, December 23, 2025
Arts Midwest sent out a year in review newsletter this week. I was pleased to see there were some stories they had shared I had missed. One was about Dirty Dungarees, a laundromat in Columbu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:32AMWednesday, December 17, 2025
Fast Company has leaned into the Christmas season with an article on three financial lessons from the movie, It’s A Wonderful Life. In general the tips are oriented toward investing your t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24AMTuesday, December 16, 2025
Seth Godin made a post recently about what to consider if it appears your marketing efforts aren’t yielding desired results: Marketing isn’t hype. Marketing is making a product or servic…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:02AMThursday, December 11, 2025
h/t Artjournal.com which linked to a story about Lectures On Tap, a program of academic lectures being held in bars around LA, San Francisco, Boston, NYC, and Chicago. There are other simila…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMWednesday, December 10, 2025
Every so often someone asks where the protest songs are during times of social unrest. Where are the songs commenting on social issues and fears? It occurred to me that a lot of the songs pe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMTuesday, December 9, 2025
I saw that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra had a $2 million surplus for their 2025 fiscal year ending August 31 and the largest annual ticket sales since pre-pandemic. I was curious to see…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AMTuesday, December 2, 2025
There was an opinion piece by Damien Davis on Hyperallergic last month addressing the problems with the art world which are missed or glossed over by the news that Christie’s auction house…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:02PMAbout a month ago, Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience made some suggestions for facilitating holiday season experiences based on trends they were seeing in survey dat…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:36AM 
