Tuesday, 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 10:13PMMonday, October 2, 2023
A number of arts organizations made strong commitments to diversify their offerings and the composition of their staffs and performers as they emerged from Covid restrictions. Recently there…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:03PMThursday, September 28, 2023
I have been reading about the closure of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada and some of the stories are pretty heartbreaking. The concertmaster was in a moving van driving fr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:19AMWednesday, September 27, 2023
Recently on the NEA Quick Study podcast Sunil Iyengar, Director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts shared data that indicated getting an arts degree can be worth…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:55AMTuesday, September 26, 2023
Last week I was flying into to Indianapolis to attend the Midwest Arts Xpo conference and I idly wondered how things had turned out at Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields after their job…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AMWednesday, September 13, 2023
Lately I have been seeing articles in The Guardian that are calling attention to overlooked aspects of creative practice that have big impacts if conditions start to change. A couple weeks a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
A couple weeks ago Vu Le wrote about how useful AI can potentially be in the process of writing grants. So often granting organizations essentially ask for the same information, with some va…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:37PMI recently saw an article in The Guardian about a controversy that arose from misrepresenting reviews of a book by Jordan Peterson through the use of selective editing. The Times columnist J…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:19AMThursday, September 7, 2023
A couple weeks ago, I caught a story on NPR about a temporary monument exhibit that has been placed on the National Mall in Washington, DC. While a little more permanent than a pop-up exhi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:25PMWednesday, September 6, 2023
Last September I made a post about strippers working at a club in Los Angeles who were approaching Actors’ Equity Association to help them unionize their workplace. Today I saw on CNN.com …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:13PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
I recently received an email which directed me to a 2021 study funded by the Wallace Foundation called, What They Say And What They Do which essentially looked at whether people who say they…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:49PMTuesday, August 29, 2023
Thanks to the Non-Profit Law Blog’s weekly curated link list, I learned that there is a new collaborative working on a way to provide a clearinghouse for raw, clean, and standardized nonpr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:25PMMonday, August 28, 2023
There was a short piece in Fast Company today that discusses hiring employees in similar terms to what is required to broaden and diversify audiences – You have to hire for the company cul…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:13PMThursday, August 24, 2023
The Atlantic recently ran a piece by Imani Perry reviewing a biography of playwright August Wilson by Patti Hartigan. The book has been getting a lot of notice over the last few weeks. This …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:25AMWednesday, August 23, 2023
According to a story on the Associated Press, fewer non-profits are engaging in lobbying efforts than 20 years ago. The Independent Sector had commissioned a study that found less than 1/3 o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:55AMTuesday, August 22, 2023
Ken Davenport recently posted that the Broadway Production of Here Lies Love was working on lowering barriers to attendance by offering babysitting during four upcoming performances. “Here…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:33AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
Caught a timely article from The Guardian about the dwindling number of piano tuners in Australia. I am fairly certain arts and cultural organizations in other countries are having a similar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:25PMTuesday, August 15, 2023
I have been keeping an eye on the cultural voucher programs various European countries employ to encourage young people to get out and engage in different experiences. The program differ in …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:07PMMonday, August 14, 2023
Last week on the Association of Performing Arts Professional’s (APAP) podcast, Emily Isaacson of Classical Uprising talked about some of the frustrating experiences she has had trying to a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:43PMThursday, August 10, 2023
There was another editorial about how the arts should be funded that is getting a lot of notice this week. You may recall I had posted about Isaac Butler’s editorial in the NY Times a coup…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:55AMWednesday, August 9, 2023
Today Margy Waller posted a link to an opinion piece from the Chronicle of Philanthropy with that comment that the piece was not satire. While the piece was apparently posted in June, a vers…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:37AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
There was an interesting and rather lengthy article in the Chronicle of Higher Education last week about the puppetry program at West Virginia University. It is apparently one of the few deg…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:13AMWednesday, August 2, 2023
Via the CityLab newsletter, Politico recently reported that the Lt. Governor of California, Eleni Kounalakis, was among a number of politicians calling upon Taylor Swift to postpone her show…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:33PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
On June 25, the TKTS booth in Times Square turned 50. I have written about some precursors to the discount ticketing booth The whole history is pretty fascinating, especially if you view it …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:07PMMonday, July 31, 2023
Last week Washington Post contributor Theodore Johnson reflected back on the first concert he saw when he was 9 years old (The Fat Boys). He noted that due to Covid restrictions, this summer…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:49PMWednesday, July 26, 2023
Some disappointing news out of Oregon. Portland is withdrawing support and participation from the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), an independent organization that handles grantin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:07PMTuesday, July 25, 2023
Bloomberg had an article about the renovated Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, now rebranded Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Prior to the renovation, the director said people would frequentl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:43PMThere was a lot of chatter on the Twittersphere last week (which I guess is the X Corp-sphere now?) over a NY Times editorial that Isaac Butler wrote advocating for the federal government to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:25AMThursday, July 20, 2023
Amid all the stories of arts organizations closing and scaling back, I saw a piece about a dance company in Dallas that has seen their situation improve with virtual and live programming dur…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:04AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
About a month ago, I wrote about the Fix the Tix Coalition which is advocating for laws to change exploitative ticket practices. Among the practices they were trying to change is websites ma…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:25PMMonday, July 17, 2023
This morning Arts Emergency, a UK based organization which advocates for the arts & humanities and puts a lot of effort into finding mentors for young creatives, post the following on Tw…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:49PM 
