My colleague Paul Beard was telling me about the Smith Center for the Performing Arts now in development in Las Vegas, and remarked that it was actually two entirely different creatures living in the same space. The day before it opens, it will be a construction site with one set of demands and challenges. The day after […]
Archives for January 2012
SOPA and PIPA untangled
If you use the Internet, you likely have heard or read rumblings about legislation currently in Congress about Internet piracy. SOPA and PIPA were the inspiration for a blackout of several major web sites this week over concerns that the legislation would ‘break’ the Internet through their requirements, and change the nature of what and […]
The rise of the ‘edge-pert’
A recurring theme at this year’s Arts Presenters conference in New York was boundary crossing. Artists and arts organizations were celebrated for dancing with unexpected partners — city planners, farmers, inner-city kids, health professionals. Other speakers encouraged such new connections and new commitments to becoming relevant to communities in non-traditional ways. There was also much […]
Power, Influence, and Performing Arts
I’m attending the Association of Performing Arts Presenters annual conferencein New York this weekend, along with six of my MBA students from the Wisconsin School of Business. For the seventh year running, the student team has been commissioned by Arts Presenters to prepare and present a conference session on an emerging issue in the presenting […]
Sustaining, breakout, and disruptive innovation
‘Innovation’ is the buzz word at many arts conferences these days, and among many funders. With so many things changing in our environment — all of the STEEP variables at once (Sociological, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political) — innovation in programming, practice, business process, strategy, and such seems a best way through. But as we’re busy […]
