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Via Artsjournal.com, on Arts & Culture Texas site, Tarra Gaines gives name to the difference between live and streamed performance. (my emphasis) Amid this deluge of performance art offe…
If readers have been paying close attention, you probably know I currently run an historic theater in Macon, GA. Last week, the Macon Arts Alliance released the cultural master plan the comm…
I had a post today on ArtsHacker with the click-baity title, You Can't Just Let People Tear Your Clothes Off Anymore. The post talks about the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Empl…
Recently, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the union which has members working in performing arts venues, convention centers, movies, and television productions,…
I am sure a lot of people are wondering what other people are doing about performances as you plan for the day you can actually start again. Classicfm.com shared a number of images and video…
From the "more things change, the more things stay the same," whose life do you think this describes? ….she is particularly sharp-eyed, and refreshing, on the practicalities that shape any…
I have had a little bit of survey fatigue so I haven't been keeping up with Colleen Dilenschneider's ongoing updates on audiences willingness to return to cultural organizations. As a result…
Daniel Pink tweeted about a mentorship study conducted by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University this week. While the study was conducted on scientists, I have to think …
Perhaps providentially after my post last week about how a professional know their value, I saw a post on HowlRound by Elsa Hiltner which address some of the factors underlying the stereotyp…
Seth Godin offers a pretty good definition of amateur, professional and hack in a recent post. While I haven't fully considered all the implications of his definition, I feel like it makes t…
Troublemaker that Drew McManus is, he suggested that as people return to live performances post-Covid, arts organizations should re-think the hallowed curtain speech. He argues that patrons …
Non-Profit Quarterly made a post in May that just came across my social media feed today about a weekly Zoom call 200+ arts organizations in NYC are having in order to share information duri…
Hat tip to the National Endowment for the Arts for linking to this video of an 11 year old taking The Bob Ross Challenge " basically trying to keep up and replicate Bob Ross' painting instru…
You may have seen the news today that the results of the Culture Track Covid-19 report were publicly released today. While some of the data about audience willingness to return to arts and c…
Interesting short piece on the FastCompany website that points out the current uncertainty about the future created the the Covid-19 pandemic makes deferring on a decision seem the wise opti…
There is a piece on ArtsHacker I recently published dealing with a lot of the legal questions arts and cultural venues face when trying to make re-opening plans. You may be aware that people…
I was listening to an episode of How I Built This where Guy Raz interviews ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia. At first I was just drawn to listen because Kadakia presented a familiar story of …
In an earlier entry, I had written about meeting the legal duty of care and planning to re-open your venue as Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed. It is good to be aware of legal duty of c…
In the Washington Post, Jon Gertner reviews a book about innovation by Matt Ridley. One aspect of the book Gertner emphasizes is Ridley's view that innovation is 90% perspiration and 10%…
Tyler Green's tweet today about art museums acting like corporations rather than charities got me to look at the full series of tweets on the subject. He is angered by the fact that inst…
Artsjournal.com linked to a Washington Post story about all the psychological considerations some movie theater operators are factoring into re-opening their spaces for screenings. To paraph…
The news JC Penney is closing a number of their stores and liquidating the inventory reminded me of a post I made eight years ago about the company's efforts to deal more fairly with custome…
While people still haven't returned to the daily routines they may have had before Covid-19 brought a halt to so much of our lives, it might be worth encouraging people to continue cultivati…
Seth Godin made a post today that addresses the current climate of Black Lives Matter, policing, statues, etc without directly naming any of these things. (A week ago he mentioned he gen…
I arrived in my office last Friday to find a heck of a lot more emails in my Inbox than I am used to. It turned out the evening before the governor had announced a change of guidelines that …
