I got to see a performance of The Rose of Sonora this weekend. It is a concerto in five scenes performed by Holly Mulcahy and composed by George S. Clinton. I had first written about it …
As a supplement to yesterday's post regarding how children interact with museum labels, there was a second short piece on The Conversation website about whether it is important to read the l…
Some research how adults and children focus on visual art pieces in different ways provides some insight into how to write and present introductory and educational information to children. N…
A story I was watching throughout December was the threat of Berlin cutting its funding for arts and culture. Right before Christmas, the city did indeed cut funding by $130 million which re…
An interesting intersection of art and technology I saw in an article in The Harvard Gazette where an assistant professor of bioengineering, Shriya Srinivasan, created a phone app which woul…
I have been a big fan of Springboard for the Arts and the work they do for a number of years. I look forward to their annual reports which have been depicted as infographics for the last dec…
The last two days I have been covering some of the responses the National Endowment for the Arts received in the dozen listening sessions they conducted with theaters in spring and summer of…
Today I am following on yesterdays post about the National Endowment for the Art's report on a dozen listening sessions they conducted this past spring and summer, Defying Gravity: Conversat…
This morning the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released Defying Gravity: Conversations with Leaders from Nonprofit Theater. The result of the report are based on conversations during…
A few weeks ago I wrote about how the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony appeared to have found a path to return to activity, albeit tenuous, after the musicians were blindsided by a bankruptcy ann…
Seth Godin recently made a post using the recent Jaguar rebrand to illustrate the difference between rebranding and re-logoing They think a rebrand and a re-logo are the same thing, they're …
A recent Slate piece covered the music rights issues being faced by athletes who use music in competition " among them figure skating, gymnastics, artistic swimming, cheer, ballroom dance, a…
Back in May I wrote about research Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS derived from the National Awareness, Attitudes, and Usage Study regarding what factors help them to feel we…
In October the National Endowment for the Arts Quick Study podcast (transcript available) took a look at how arts participation broke down across the United States via data collected in 2022…
For the record, I am not on the side of singing along with the movie in the theater. That said, I think it is to the theater world's credit that there is a notable debate raging about whethe…
We are constantly told about the hazards of inputting sensitive personal data into unsecure websites. That is pretty much what you are doing when you provide information to an AI bot and ask…
Via Arts and Letters Daily is an article by Bailey Sincox about how theater tickets and programs, long regarded as ephemera are becoming increasingly ephemeral thanks to technology. Tickets …
Seth Godin recently wrote about how, as an MBA student at Stanford, he went into an interview with the CEO of Activision waving a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article and claiming Activisio…
A year ago I wrote about how the musicians of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony were blindsided by the organization declaring bankruptcy. There had been no communication prior to the decla…
The National Endowment for the Arts recently released the arts related results of the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey. Unlike the Survey on Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) whi…
Museums As Progress sponsored a talk with John Falk today on a chapter from his upcoming book Leaning Into Value: Becoming a User-Focused Museum. The chapter addressed the value of data …
Ruth Hartt had reposted an Observer debating what sort of information and how much makes for a good museum label. It immediately occurred to me that this can be a tall order based on the fac…
It has been a few years since I posted anything about the Wormfarm Institute so I was happy to read a Hyperallergic post via Artsjournal.com about Wormfarm's annual Farm/Art D'tour which…
At one of my previous positions, I had started a conversation with a local storytelling group about partnering on a curated storytelling series. This conversation happened a month before the…
Daniel J. Levitin had a piece in The Walrus this month where he goes on at length about how music is therapy. In the middle of the article were a couple paragraphs that suggested the dividin…