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Wanna get to Carnegie Hall? Got 10,000 hours?
Malcolm Gladwell has yet another book, this time on Outliers, the men and women whose success or abilities lie well beyond the norm. In an excerpt published in The Guardian, he suggests that one indicator seems common to all such...
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November 18, 2008 8:51 AM | | Comments (1) |
Enabling and rewarding your critics
There's more and more conversation out there (at least that I'm hearing) about embracing and enabling audience members to connect around your content and contribute their own perspectives. Whether through discussion circles, on-line forums, or post-event coffee hours, the larger...
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November 13, 2008 11:24 AM | | Comments (4) |
Shacking up
Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones explores an increasingly common consideration for facility-dependent arts groups in a down economy: sharing space instead of building or owning their own. Says Jones:Given the economic downturn, sharing of space may turn out to the...
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November 12, 2008 8:56 AM | | Comments (0) |
Learning to speak and listen...
I spent this past Friday and Saturday in Philadelphia with my fellow members of the Association of Arts Administration Educators board, of which I'm currently president. It's a group of some of the smartest, funniest, and warmest folks you're likely...
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November 10, 2008 12:16 AM | | Comments (1) |
Policy to come?
Given the regime change enacted in last night's election results, it might be a good time to reread (or read for the first time) the Obama campaign's arts policy document, which is reprinted in full below. You can also grab...
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November 5, 2008 9:40 AM | | Comments (2) |
Expertise vs. control
Nina Simon in the Museum 2.0 blog has a great think-piece on the tensions of social networking and established cultural organizations (in her case, museums). As user-generated content and other participatory practices evolve on the web, many traditional cultural centers...
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November 4, 2008 8:52 AM | | Comments (1) |
Diversify
Eight-year-old Milwaukee Shakespeare had a bad bit of news this month, with the loss of funding from the Argosy Foundation. It's certainly not the only arts organization seeing losses of foundation funding, as assets for most have taken double-digit percentage...
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October 30, 2008 1:23 AM | | Comments (2) |
My world tour (limited stops)
I'll be traveling a bit in November to speak at and facilitate some industry conversations. If you're near Chicago or Dublin, please consider stopping by:Beyond the Rhetoric and Toward Real Change:A Symposium on Diversity in Arts and Cultural OrganizationsMonday, November...
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October 29, 2008 8:49 AM | | Comments (0) |
The language of value
NPR's recent story on the national ''free night of theater'' initiative explores the lure of ''free'' tickets for new and distracted audiences. The Theater Communications Group effort began in 2005, and expanded in its last iteration (on October 16) to...
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October 28, 2008 8:50 AM | | Comments (2) |
A new anthem for my peeps
Premise: Arts and cultural managers lack an appropriate anthem to their career path -- unlike cowboys, truckers, and rock musicians. Premise: Such an anthem, if it were to be written, should be a funk tune. Premise: Said funk tune, if...
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October 24, 2008 12:12 AM | | Comments (15) |
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