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Via Artsjournal.com is a piece on The Critic addressing the trend in thinking art has curative abilities. I have long written about the problem with measuring the value of art in prescriptiv…
Ruth Hartt made an insightful post on LinkedIn a few weeks ago which caught my attention. She also mirrored it on her own website. She talked about how boards and staffs of arts organization…
Last week, Springboard for the Arts, based in St. Paul, MN posted on LinkedIn about different funds they and others had created and contributed to in order to mitigate the impact of federal …
A decade ago when Nina Simon mentioned in a talk she did that not all the programming at a museum was necessarily for everyone, and that is alright, it was an eye opening moment for me. It h…
Reimagining The Civic Commons (RCC) made a post on Medium about the contribution of even brief passing nods and greetings on the street have in establishing our sense of belonging. They cite…
Seth Godin had an interesting take on pricing and market disruption. He noted that books, records, and other products often have uniform pricing that doesn't really reflect the demand. You m…
Last month Fast Company had a piece about how digital ticketing hasn't really stopped fraud as well as people expected. The article talks about how prior to the NFL going to digital ticketin…
This weekend a newsletter from the Master of Management in International Arts Management program caught my eye with a research piece titled Predicting Museum Visitors' Intention Through Nonv…
You may have heard about the abrupt and somewhat controversial firing of Philadelphia Art Museum director and CEO Sasha Suda back in November. Recently Philadelphia Magazine published a long…
I am always keeping an eye open for different ways arts organizations can employ meaningful measures of impact. AEA Consulting listed different impact evaluation tools and criteria being use…
Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience have been dependable as always and recently provided a market outlook for arts and cultural organizations for 2026 & 2027 based…
h/t to Anne Smith who posted this video on Linkedin of Ethan Hawke talking about giving yourself permission to be creative. For me the big impactful statement he makes is that everyone think…
There's a kinda meme image circulating where a person says they had imagined a future where AI made her work easier so that she had more time for creative leisure. Instead, AI is being used …
Imagine, just as you have gotten with the times and started to effectively use social media to communicate and engage with younger audiences, the tool is yanked away. That is kinda what is h…
A recent report in The Art Newspaper addressed an issue of which I was entirely unaware " Visual artists are essentially being forced to pay for their own shows as a result of so much fundin…
Pretty much every public event space, including theaters, will receive questions about the accessibility of their spaces and programs. There are even more questions when the space is a histo…
Hyperallergic had a great article for artists who are trying to establish their careers later in life. Author Paddy Johnson answers concerts about fitting in with younger, apparently better …
The Wall Street Journal had an article about how Companies Are Desperately Seeking Storytellers. In some cases this seems to be a re-titling of social media, public relations, marketing, pod…
I mentioned last week that Arts Midwest sent out a year in review newsletter recently. In addition to the laundromat turned laundrobar in Columbus, OH that has taken a place in that city's m…
Totally off my radar until I saw a LinkedIn post by April Clark. Starting December 24, 2025 your local post office will no longer postmark outgoing mail. The postmark will be places on the m…
Yes, 'tis the season for ticket scams I am afraid. My venue often sees an uptick in complaints around the holidays. We often attribute it to the fact we have people attending events at our v…
Arts Midwest sent out a year in review newsletter this week. I was pleased to see there were some stories they had shared I had missed. One was about Dirty Dungarees, a laundromat in Columbu…
Fast Company has leaned into the Christmas season with an article on three financial lessons from the movie, It's A Wonderful Life. In general the tips are oriented toward investing your tim…
Seth Godin made a post recently about what to consider if it appears your marketing efforts aren't yielding desired results: Marketing isn't hype. Marketing is making a product or service th…
h/t Artjournal.com which linked to a story about Lectures On Tap, a program of academic lectures being held in bars around LA, San Francisco, Boston, NYC, and Chicago. There are other simila…
