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Friday, November 13, 2020

Government Cultural Policy Making For The Unknown by Joe Patti

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 12:24AM

It’s More Than Just Naming A Minster of Culture And Other Measures To Help Creative Industries by Joe Patti

To 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 12:24AM
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Saving Culture and Creativity Without Compromising Their Best Interests by Joe Patti

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 11:24AM
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Networks and Resources Have Always Mattered by Joe Patti

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 09:18PM
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Don’t Feel Obligated To Sink More Into Bad Choices by Joe Patti

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 09:12PM
Monday, November 2, 2020

The Past May Hold Answers, But They Are Imperfect by Joe Patti

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 08:48PM
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Is Auto-Tune Coming To Dance? by Joe Patti

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 12:48PM
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

One Creativity To Guide Them All! by Joe Patti

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 04:32AM
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

We Are Gonna Need A Slower Elevator by Joe Patti

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 04:06PM
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Inspired By A Fiction Of Your Creation by Joe Patti

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 02:03AM

For Whom Are People Creating Art? by Joe Patti

In 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 02:03AM
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Dance Cyberman, Dance by Joe Patti

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 01:32PM
Thursday, October 15, 2020

What I Opposed In Good Times I Praise You For In Bad by Joe Patti

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 05:42PM

Don’t Forget Lessons Learned About Business Insurance by Joe Patti

One 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 05:42PM
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

The Most Important People Social Distance In The Penalty Box by Joe Patti

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 05:06PM
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Budgeting More Money For Culture, Despite Covid. You Can Probably Guess Where by Joe Patti

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 08:54PM

Mounting A Performing Arts Conference When No One Wants To Travel by Joe Patti

Two 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 08:54PM

Meanwhile, Next Door In Austria by Joe Patti

The 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 08:54PM
Thursday, October 1, 2020

Be Sure Your Data Doesn’t Just Mean You Are Good At Posting Memes by Joe Patti

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 12:03AM
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Yes, Data Driven Decision Making. But What Data Is Important? by Joe Patti

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 03:14PM
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Artist Waits 50 Years For A Wrong To Be Righted by Joe Patti

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 11:36PM

The Grass Is Greener In Someone Else’s Museum by Joe Patti

I 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 05:32PM
Thursday, September 24, 2020

An Eye For Justice And Opera by Joe Patti

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 03:36AM
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Dip Your Toe, But Probably Not The Time To Take The Plunge by Joe Patti

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 09:06AM
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The Originality That Is Sought Is Not The True Originality by Joe Patti

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 08:36AM
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Merit Can Be More Easily Inherited Than Earned by Joe Patti

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 12:54PM
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Cirque Got Back In The Air In China by Joe Patti

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 11:54PM
Monday, September 14, 2020

Live From Our Fire Escape by Joe Patti

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 11:32PM
Thursday, September 10, 2020

That Ineffable Value by Joe Patti

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 03:42AM
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Going To A Museum To Gather Information by Joe Patti

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
Thursday, September 3, 2020

The Man Who Decided To Raise Artists Instead of Chickens by Joe Patti

It was with some sorrow that I learned this week that a great man who has literally been part of the grassroots effort to provide arts experiences to young people died last week. Albert Appe…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:03AM