Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Last month there was an interesting story in the Washington Post about the $220 million bequest left to NPR 20 years ago by Joan Kroc, widow of former McDonalds CEO Ray Kroc. What I found …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PMMonday, December 18, 2023
Broadway Producer Ken Davenport posted last week about The Broadway League’s attendance report for the 2022-2023 season. The 2022-2023 season was the first period in which a full season …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:02PMDid you know according to surveys conducted a few months ago, the most entertaining performance based organization in the world is the Sydney Opera House, followed by the Hollywood Bowl and …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 10:07AMThursday, December 14, 2023
At various times I, and others like Drew McManus have written about the importance of having a good crisis communication plan. The marketing department should be focused on more than just …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMWednesday, December 13, 2023
Tyler Cowen, the economist who write the Marginal Revolution blog linked to an interesting paper from 2014, Corporate Governance Without Shareholders: A Cautionary Lesson from Non-Profit Org…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AMTuesday, December 12, 2023
I had to cackle when I saw this post by jazz critic and music historian, Ted Gioia: I'm not sure whether I'm depressed by the AARP sponsoring the Stones, or applaud it as the obvious move. B…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
I am always interested in news about how donor advised funds (DAF) are operating. On the whole, their use hasn’t gone as intended and they have reduced, rather than increased or incentiviz…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
When I saw a link on Artsjournal.com to a research study on PLOS One exploring the link between music and morality, I was half expecting to discover that evil people do prefer classical musi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMMonday, December 4, 2023
A couple weeks ago, New Zealand’s Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) proudly announced that the GDP growth for the Arts and Creativity Sector was nearly double that of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMWednesday, November 29, 2023
Apropos to my post yesterday about Richmond Ballet dancers suing the organization for exerting so much pressure about their weight, there was another story a couple weeks ago that I forgot w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:02PMLast week Artsjournal.com linked to an article that may represent a significant continuation in the discussion about body weight expectations in ballet and dance in general. Two Richmond B…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:36AMTuesday, November 28, 2023
Chad Bauman, Executive Director at Milwaukee Rep made a post on LinkedIn today where he acknowledged that making a change in a business model can threaten the existence of an organization, b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AMSunday, November 26, 2023
I usually don’t advocate for specific shows on the blog here, but I recently presented a group whose format really lends itself to a variety of audience engagement opportunities you may dr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42AMWell apparently my optimism about the direction of the Indianapolis Museum at Newfields was a little premature. In late September I wrote about how the museum had just hired. Belinda Tate, a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42AMLong time readers will be aware that I have been keeping an eye on guaranteed basic income programs in different communities, especially those that are designed to benefit artists. Recently …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42AMThursday, November 9, 2023
I believe it was Artsjournal.com that shared a story a week or so ago about the Philadelphia Inquirer’s attempt to increase subscriptions and engage a younger audience with an ad campaign …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:06AMWednesday, November 8, 2023
Sunil Iyengar who directs the research arm of the National Endowment for the Arts recently posted on the idea of arts experiences as one way for individuals to create connections with others…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:36AMTuesday, November 7, 2023
So as much as we may think that we need to find new strategies and tactics to engage with audiences, a lot of times we are reinventing or rediscovering approaches that were ignored in favor …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:32AMTuesday, October 31, 2023
A couple weeks ago, Rainer Glaap posted a link to a news story about people in Germany advocating for unisex restrooms. It wasn’t so much about wanting to provide spaces for people ident…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:37PMThe China Project recently spotlighted Taylor Swift’s amazing fluency in speaking Mandarin Chinese. It is amazing to think she is able to gain this level of proficiency while attending to …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:13AMThursday, October 26, 2023
I recently saw a link on a CityLab story noting that since the end of Covid restrictions, people appear to be less willing to venture outside of familiar neighborhoods and locales. As of lat…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:13AMWednesday, October 25, 2023
While it has sort of been generally known that visitors to arts and cultural organizations aren’t fully aware of whether the organization is a non-profit or not, Colleen Dilenschneider rec…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 12:14PMTuesday, October 24, 2023
I recently saw an article about the Portland Art Museum essentially firing all their volunteer docents by email in favor of paid students with a suggestion that the docents weren’t diverse…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:55PMMonday, October 23, 2023
Recently I have been seeing articles heralding the Taylor Swift and Beyonce concert movies as the recipe for financial success for struggling movie theaters—turn movie attendance into an e…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:33PMTuesday, October 17, 2023
A couple hours after I made my post about an article addressing the problem with “drip fees” in the UK and the psychology that reinforces their use, I saw that the FTC is proposing new r…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:19PMMonday, October 16, 2023
Last week, my regional booking consortium organized its first Zoom conversation for marketing staff to share questions, ideas and just generally converse. I lurked around for most of the con…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:07PMThursday, October 12, 2023
A survey found that in the UK, 93% of event ticketers add “drip fees” on to transactions. As you probably suspect, those are the undisclosed added fees that pop up as you go through th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:19AMWednesday, October 11, 2023
I came across an interesting story about the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The 400 seat Kalita Humphreys Theater, constructed in 1959, is one of the Dallas Theater Center�…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:49AMTuesday, October 10, 2023
Back in August I mentioned a partnership of organizations working with the Broadway production of Here Lies Love to offer babysitting services to people attending select performances. What…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AMThursday, October 5, 2023
The Smithsonian Magazine just published a pretty interesting story about how the proliferation of Renaissance Faires (RenFaire) in the US got their start due to artists being blacklisted dur…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:55PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
Last week I saw that production assistants (PA) on Broadway shows were seeking to unionize under the auspices of Actors Equity Association, which represents actors and stage managers. What r…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:13PM 
