Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research at Americans for the Arts, shares the power of sharing the impact of both stories and numbers in advocating for the arts.
Little over three years ago, after nearly a full year of COVID-19 in the United States, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) published a research report on “the arts and culture sector’s contributions to economic recovery.” Doug Noonan, an economics professor at Indiana University Indianapolis, had authored the report, using data from the U.S. Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account...
The Guardian has a new editorial up about how the price of a theatre ticket in London is too darn high. I imagine it would be possible to write a similar piece about theatre in any big North American city as well. But it makes some questionable claims and assumptions, so, here we go…
“Theatre’s in a perilous state. My wife went...
Companies like Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Spotify, Apple and Google have subsidized what they offer (super-cheap or free content, faster service and better accessibility) to capture audience and attention in ways that have played havoc with culture producers and artists everywhere, whether or not they create on any of these platforms.
When I was a salaried reporter, I did pretty well over the course of more than two decades at three major metro dailies in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. It always helped to get freelance work, however.
I’ve deleted my last post, about what the Cleveland Plain Dealer printed as CIM’s response to the faculty vote of no confidence.
It wasn’t CIM’s response at all, but instead a statement made in the past about another situation, which the Plain Dealer highlighted as if it was CIM’s response now.
They’ve now removed it, but I think using it in...
Donna Collins, Executive Director of the Ohio Arts Council and Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, talks about the importance of arts advocacy and its impact on our communities.
Arts coverage in mainstream has been in decline for decades. It's not what's to blame for the current audience crisis. Out of date marketing practices are the reason. But arts organizations can take action that can bolster audiences, mission, and re-engage staff at the same time.
I’ve come to the conclusion that my computer is great at hiding things from me. What prompted me to think about this is a letter I came across that I didn’t know I had, because it had never turned up before. My great good luck is that I found it by accident, and greater still is that anything written by Carl Weissner is a delight to read. The recipient of the letter (if in fact Carl ever mailed it) was Sinclair Beiles, himself a writer of no small humor. (Fans of William Burroughs will recognize the reference to one of his notorious fictional characters).
I have a chapter on dynamic pricing in my old book. In a nutshell: dynamic pricing is where the seller adjusts the current price upwards or downwards based upon the most recent information on market conditions. This is not the same as a cinema having discount Tuesdays, since it will offer that each week as a result of known...
Andrés Cárdenes, Violinist & Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Lynn University Conservatory of Music, talks about the ability of music to connect us to our shared humanity.