2,136 stories from Butts In The Seats
Every so often someone asks where the protest songs are during times of social unrest. Where are the songs commenting on social issues and fears? It occurred to me that a lot of the songs pe…
I saw that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra had a $2 million surplus for their 2025 fiscal year ending August 31 and the largest annual ticket sales since pre-pandemic. I was curious to see…
There was an opinion piece by Damien Davis on Hyperallergic last month addressing the problems with the art world which are missed or glossed over by the news that Christie's auction house s…
About a month ago, Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience made some suggestions for facilitating holiday season experiences based on trends they were seeing in survey dat…
Seth Godin made a post about empathy a few weeks ago that is somewhat apt for the upcoming holiday season. Every hiker is intimately aware of their backpack. They picked it out, choosing fro…
Maybe it is because I have had street construction occurring around my venue since February (reaching my block December 1!) but my interest was piqued when I saw a FastCompany article about …
FastCompany recently had a post by Matt Mandrella, the music officer for Huntsville, AL advocating for cities to support house concerts as a method for stimulating economic and creative vita…
Rainer Glaap recently linked to a story about new legislation in the UK which will prohibit selling tickets for any amount above face value. (Apparently there was discussion about capping it…
Seth Godin recently made a post about recklessness which intersected somewhat with the concept of giving permission for failure, something that is a key element to the creative process. In f…
Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience share some of the latest data regarding how people are becoming increasingly invested in spending their free time at home. She star…
Recently entertainment lawyer Gordon Firemark made a couple posts on Fair Use rules for creators on social media, podcasts, and films. The second one dealt with music sampling on content cre…
A couple weeks ago I saw a blog post from Museums as Progress talking about how staff expertise isn't necessarily relevant to visitors. The point they made was just because expertise is impo…
Seth Godin reinforced a conversation that has been circulating in the arts world with greater vigor over the last five-six years "people have so many options these days you need to distingui…
Writing for SMU DataArts, Doug Noonan recently had a short piece about identifying gig workers and free lancers in the creative industry which are usually missed by federal surveys. He notes…
I have been reading and writing about Basic Guaranteed Income programs for quite a number of years. I was interested to see that Ireland decided to make their Basic Artist Income program per…
So a little bit of good news out of Chicago. For a few years now I have been posting data showing how visitation at arts organizations compares to 2019 numbers. Some organization types are a…
Last week Alan Harrison did an analysis on Donor Advised Funds (DAF), the relative value of the funds disbursed and some of the loopholes provided by DAFs. One of the things he notes is that…
Oregon Arts Watch (h/t Artsjournal.com) provided some insight into a state advocacy group's two year plan to propose a redesign of the state's funding arts model in light of the national pol…
The National Independent Venue Association released the results of their first survey showing the economic impact of independent venues in each of the 50 states and Washington D.C.. The info…
For two weekends this month, the local Creative District is operating their annual artist studio tours. There are other associated activities, but the artists' opening their spaces for peopl…
About twice a month Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience release some interesting data they have compiled about trends they are seeing that may impact arts and cultural…
Tyler Cowen of the Marginal Revolution blog posted a short video meant as a preview of a long movie project discussing how we have eliminated ordinary beauty from our lives in the name of ef…
Over the last two years I have been monitoring the story of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony which abruptly declared bankruptcy taking the musicians who had just negotiated a raise completely…
Last week, the Arts Management program at American University released a series of video interviews with the former chairs of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) on the occasion of the…
Hyperallergic had a story about a couple casino developers who offered to build museums as part of a bid open some casinos in NYC. According to the story, one would have developed a $15 mill…
