Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Seth Godin often posts on the theme of generosity. Looking back at my past posts, I quickly came up with a handful I made about his discussion of the links between generosity, creativity, …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PMI recently caught this story about an anthropologist at the University of South Florida (USF) who studied the impact of algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico and was concerned no one would read…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:36AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Sort of dovetailing with my post yesterday about art and science nourishing each other, you may have seen that scientists have named a new species of gecko after Vincent Van Gogh. Yes, every…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:32AMTuesday, April 2, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) posted a slightly longer than usual podcast episode a few weeks back with a conversation between NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson and US Census Burea…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:02AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Back in February I caught a broadcast of NPR’s podcast show Code Switch where the episode was about the music that came out of or was inspired by Japanese internment. Artists like Kishi Ba…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
I wanted to brag a bit on my staff today. For about a year now I have been talking about making our promotional materials and operational habits focused more toward attendees rather than inw…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMMonday, March 25, 2024
Seth Godin recently made a post reminding us that even those who seem like they are well-established in their career as artists may not feel that secure. He cites an article on a recent docu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:36PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Seth Godin made a post recently suggesting that the most effective persuasion occurs when we persuade ourselves. The purpose of the memo or the table or the graph or the presentation is to c…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
Some pretty compelling evidence that we should be encouraging people to participate in arts and cultural activities with family and friends. Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACT re…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMWednesday, March 13, 2024
A few years ago I wrote a post about how actors were discovering that how many followers you had on social media was being taken into account during casting decisions. Vox recently had an ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
Last month Vox had a piece by Courtney Tenz about how to interpret art. It isn’t the sort of article you can simply link a social media post to for your audiences to read. One of Tenz’s …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:02PMMonday, March 11, 2024
A nod to Erick Deshaun Dorris for the link to a Guardian article about how ticket resellers are leveraging the hatred being directed at Ticketmaster to manipulate legislation to their benefi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:42PMWednesday, March 6, 2024
The Chronicle of Philanthropy had an article written by the co-executive directors of the Building Movement Project (BMP) which focuses on non-profit leadership issues. I have been writing a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:02AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
I have been writing about the importance of providing audience focused marketing and experiences for a number of years now. These three links are just representative of the hundreds of pos…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMWednesday, February 28, 2024
There was a really interesting article in Dance Magazine about artists using American Sign Language (ASL) as part of dance performances or to underscore movement in shows. One choreographer,…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Rainer Glaap, an arts administrator working in Germany reached out with an update about the publication of his second book whose title translates as Knitting Forbidden! The book covers laws …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PMMonday, February 26, 2024
This past Friday, February 23 marked the 20th anniversary of this blog. While Drew McManus often remembers the anniversary better than I do, I did recall the anniversary was coming up prior …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:02PMWednesday, February 21, 2024
I was walking through a building lobby when I noticed a table with a pamphlet discouraging people from painting murals on their brick buildings. My first thought was that this city departmen…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PMSeth Godin recently made a post citing a Brookings Institution survey series that showed a decline in confidence in multiple institutions and companies since 2018. Godin notes that some …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AMMonday, February 19, 2024
So hattip to Ruth Hartt who linked to a piece by David Taylor who argues that we shouldn’t be linking the lack of music education in schools to diminishing audiences for classical music. H…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PMThursday, February 15, 2024
I happened across an Aeon article earlier this month featuring a video by the Victoria and Albert Museum displaying and discussing Valentine’s Day. I thought folks might enjoy learning abo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:36AMWednesday, February 14, 2024
Artsjournal.com linked to a Hudson Review piece by poet and former NEA Chair, Dana Gioia, talking about how he became entranced by opera and classical music as a child, but realized it was n…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:32PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
One of the ways communities are using arts and creativity to revitalize buildings and downtown districts are murals on buildings. However, not all surfaces are suited for murals. The best in…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMMonday, February 12, 2024
Last August, I called attention to the dwindling number of qualified piano tuners posing a threat to arts organizations’ ability to host concerts. Along those same lines, Artsjournal.com…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
Last month Drew McManus posted on ArtsHacker warning about changes that Yahoo and Gmail are implementing this month that will shunt a greater number of emails to spam folders unless you take…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PMMonday, February 5, 2024
I was kinda thrilled to hear the melodious voice of conductor Bill Eddins on the Marketplace Morning Report this morning. Bill had written the Sticks and Drones blog here on Inside the Arts …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMThursday, February 1, 2024
Yesterday I cited a Seth Godin post about rethinking how we measure work productivity. Around the same time he made a post along the same lines noting that while strictly following instruc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
Long time readers know that I resist the use of economic impact as a measure of value for arts and culture for many reasons. The late potter-philosopher Carter Gillies was really effective i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Just before Christmas Broadway producer Ken Davenport called attention to an issue which may or may not impact Broadway attendance starting later this year. Starting this Spring, congestion …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMWednesday, January 24, 2024
Title of the post today is intentionally leveraging a statement in a study conducted by Jennifer Novak-Leonard and Rachel Skaggs for the National Endowment for the Arts of public perception …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48PMTuesday, January 23, 2024
Last week, NPR Reporter Andrew Limbong interviewed Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again. Limbong observed that while he has the impulse to roll his eyes at th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:36PM 
