Today is Monday, December 22, 2025 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Ralph Fiennes Andrew Lippa
You may recall that back in 2010 the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) was permitted to put a property tax up for vote on an election ballot to ensure a source of financial support. In return …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06PMApropos to my post yesterday about giving yourself time to generate creative innovation Seth Godin made a post today about sunk cost fallacy, practice and creativity. The point he makes is…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06PMApropos to Monday’s post on Jargon vs. Lingo, a link came across my social media feed yesterday featuring an interview with Anand Giridharadas by Mariana Mazzucato, a professor at the Univ…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AMNod to Artsjournal.com for posting David Rohde’s examination of how viewing new ticket buyers as donors immediately after their attendance experience is extremely detrimental to arts organ…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48PMSeth Godin made a short post last week about the difference between Jargon vs. Lingo. Its brevity seems to make a clear case, but it leaves a ton of important considerations unsaid. Jargon i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24PMGrateful hat tip to the Arts and Management Technology Lab at Carnegie Mellon University for calling attention to Blob Opera, a fun little experiment on Google Arts and Culture. It introduce…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:18AMSo it appears Howard Sherman gets first mention a second day in a row on my blog (not that he doesn’t deserve it). He called attention to the fact the production The Lion King on Broadway …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:18AMSo much appreciation to Howard Sherman for his commentary on Twitter last week about a statement by the Broadway League that re-opening Broadway meant the return of a dormant industry. A sho…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:24AMLast week Colleen Dilenschneider released recent findings compiled by her colleagues at IMPACTS Experience about audience willingness to return to cultural organizations. By and large, mask …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PMLast week Drew McManus encouraged arts marketers to break pre-Covid bad habits by renewed his plea to stop using cliched terms like “beloved.” If you read his post closely you will not…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AMSo here is something to keep on your radar and consider the long term implications – Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest names in video gaming, donated $25 million to the University …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:42AMEquity in funding decisions has become a hot topic of late. Last week on the Americans for the Arts blog, Krista Terrell, Acting President for Arts & Science Council of Charlotte/Meckl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMDuring the Covid pandemic there has been a fair bit of introspection and soul searching about arts and culture, the role they should have in people’s lives, and the medium through which th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:42AMHat tip to Vu Le at NonProfitAF for posting a link on social media to an essay on Medium comparing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need to the Blackfeet Nation’s similar concept. Maslow had live…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AMFollowing the link tweeted by Ava Wong Davies got me to a lengthy blog post by Tim X. Atack about things that need to change in theatre post-Covid. I will initially engaged by his insisten…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:42PMLast week I saw this tweet from Aksana Khan stating that England based Arts Emergency, where she works, often asks employers to rewrite their job listings before they will forward the ad onw…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18AMAn article on FastCompany recently caught my eye that suggests a company in Sweden is helping to solve a big problem in collaborative virtual concerts. One of the big impediments has been ge…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18AMI saw on FastCompany that Live Nation is wiring some of their venues for livestreaming and wondered what, if any impact it may have on the way performing arts venues operate in the future. T…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMEconomist Tyler Cowen had a rather extensive conversation with poet and former NEA Chair, Dana Gioia, on a plethora of topics. The one that most quickly grabbed me was right out of the gate …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMA few years back I became interested in research that showed that Black, Latinx, and Hispanic people who lived near public parks don’t necessarily feel comfortable using them so a CityLab …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMDrew McManus tweeted today that he was two resumes submissions away from being able to launch the candidate resume feature on the Arts Admin Jobs site. So if you are looking for a job, or lo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18AMIn case you missed it, somethings to keep an eye on over the next two years or so are the guaranteed income program for artists that have been established in St. Paul and San Francisco. Th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48AMWhen I saw this story over the weekend, it seemed like it was absolutely inevitable that an intersection of trends toward authenticity and audience participation in cultural experiences. In …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:42PMOver on The Chronicle of Higher Education, Eric Hayot suggests that humanities subjects have a marketing problem. Because students are oriented on the utility of degree programs to career …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:42AMArtsjournal.com linked to a story about Oakland Symphony’s tradition of social justice in the experiences and programs it has offered. One of the things that popped out at me though was in…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:42AMBack in December, Advisory Board for the Arts featured a webinar on marketing the arts emphasizing emotional value to the community. Much to my chagrin, it took me until last week to get a p…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMVox Recode provided some interesting insights into factors which will exist as people increasingly work from home. Some of the issues I had already anticipated like a move to a less permanen…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:06AMAdvisory Board for the Arts sponsored a webinar discussing how Utah Symphony shifted its marketing focus to emphasize emotional factors and shared values. Karen Freeman, Executive Director…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:07PMYou know, we talk about the ability the arts have to bring solutions to societal problems. There is one area in which I thought I would see a bigger contribution in the past year but didn’…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AMIf you have been looking at the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program information page as I have suggested, you may have seen it says the applications will open in early April, However, th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AMArtsjournal.com linked to an article on Australia’s Arts Hub which looks at how the philosophy of “arts as a business” has undermined the arts in that country. The overall theme seemed…
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