Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Maybe we should be keeping an eye on Tulsa Opera. Back in August I wrote about a film that was screened in my venue about Tulsa Opera’s casting a transgender person as Don Giovanni. A coup…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54PMFriday, November 13, 2020
Last day in my series this week covering the UNESCO document, Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector. Big thanks again to Rainer Glaap for calling attention to it. A…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMTo continue where I left off from yesterday’s post about the UNESCO document, Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector, the next section addresses providing support …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMTuesday, November 10, 2020
Very big THANK YOU to friend of the blog Rainer Glaap who sent me a link to an UNESCO document, Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector. At this point I think I am go…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24AMWednesday, November 4, 2020
I recently came across an article the LA Review of Books on the book The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech by William Deresi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18PMTuesday, November 3, 2020
I am not saying anything new when I note that there are a lot of arts organizations which are incapable of taking much action due to Covid related legal restrictions or lack of resources. My…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMMonday, November 2, 2020
I came across an interesting contrast in perspective about solutions for a post-Covid world last week. In American Theatre, Jim Warren, the founding artistic director of the American Shakesp…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:48PMThursday, October 29, 2020
I recently saw this story about Adobe creating a new product using AI to smooth out dance movement in videos. I can definitely see the value in something like this in the Covid era. If you h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48PMWednesday, October 28, 2020
H/t Artsjournal.com which linked to an article on recent study which found artistic creativity and scientific creativity emerge from a similar source. (my emphasis) “The big change for edu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:32AMTuesday, October 27, 2020
There has been an ongoing conversation among the arts community that there needs to be less effort invested in selling people on an arts experience and more listening to people to find out w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:06PMThursday, October 22, 2020
In the closing plenary of the Arts Midwest/Western Arts Alliance conference, Arts Midwest CEO Torrie Allen spoke to Theaster Gates about a number of topics. What caught my attention was Gate…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AMIn September, the National Endowment for the Arts released the results of an Arts Participation survey, Why We Engage: Attending, Creating and Performing Art. Much of the information about w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AMTuesday, October 20, 2020
There was a minor uproar recently in the UK over an ad campaign featuring a picture of a ballerina with text suggesting that her next job could be cyber. The implication a lot of people saw …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:32PMThursday, October 15, 2020
Recently I have been talking about how Covid times have brought a greater tolerance on the part of boards/audiences for experimentation with programming choices. I guess I have been talking …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:42PMOne of the panel sessions at the recent Arts Midwest-Western Arts Alliance virtual conference was on Reopening. The one panelist that really caught my attention was Anna Glass, Executive Dir…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:42PMTuesday, October 13, 2020
I mentioned last week that I was in the middle of virtually attending the combined Arts Midwest-Western Arts Alliance Conference. I will probably have a couple entries of observations on par…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:06PMThursday, October 8, 2020
Last week Artnet reported that Germany’s 2021 draft budget held an increase in funding for cultural organizations in the country. You may recall that I made a post in May that clarified Ge…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PMTwo regional arts conferences, Western Arts Alliance and Arts Midwest partnered on offering a single online conference to replace their respective in-person events. I will say right from the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PMThe title of today’s post references the fact yesterday’s post was about cultural funding in Germany. I hadn’t planned it this way, but I wanted to draw attention to the lengths variou…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PMThursday, October 1, 2020
If you have been reading my writing for the last few years, you know that in addition to employing the preceding phrase fairly often, I argue that not everything that can be measured about a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AMWednesday, September 30, 2020
There is a big push, correctly, for arts organizations to employ data driven decision-making processes. However, not all data is of equal value. Colleen Dilenschneider recently made a good p…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:14PMTuesday, September 29, 2020
Quick post today since I am going to link to something longer worth reading. The venue I run is associated with a university across town that made things right for an alum after it was defer…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36PMI just want to take a moment to brag on some museum friends and also reinforce the idea that one shouldn’t discount the experiences found in small towns as of lower quality. Long time read…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:32PMThursday, September 24, 2020
I knew Ruth Bader Ginsburg loved opera. There are stories about her and Justice Scalia’s friendship and shared love of opera. A few weeks ago, I had written about the artistic director of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:36AMWednesday, September 23, 2020
As I was driving into work today, I heard an NPR story about the 92nd St Y, an event/education space in NYC, and how they have gone virtual during Covid-19. According to NPR, in a typical …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06AMTuesday, September 22, 2020
h/t to Artsjournal.com (I believe) which linked to an article about creativity from the Chinese perspective, or at least perspective of the philosopher(s) known as Zhuangzi. This is a view t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36AMThursday, September 17, 2020
There was an article on San Francisco Classical Voice website on September 1 about racism in classical music titled “The Last Water Fountain: The Struggle Against Systemic Racism in Classi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54PMTuesday, September 15, 2020
Many have probably heard about the Broadway productions in South Korea which only experienced a brief shutdown thanks to the swift and fairly comprehensive measures the government and produc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMMonday, September 14, 2020
Today Drew McManus had a post on Adaptistration titled “In the Age Of COVID, Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention.” This was pretty timely because I had my own tale of adapting to the ti…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMThursday, September 10, 2020
A post on ye olde Twitter feed led me to a piece on The Globe & Mail site structured as a conversation between J. Kelly Nestruck (theatre critic) and Kate Taylor (visual art critic). In …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:42AMWednesday, September 9, 2020
I saw an article about an interview with Kimberly Drew on Slate that I really liked. Drew had a book come out, This Is What I Know About Art . What grabbed my attention was Drew defining a …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:18AM 
