This Week: Are internships hurting progress in the arts?... Ten things that might improve the audience experience... Is elitism or populism a bigger threat to the arts?... The digital versus paper book experience... How ignorance spreads. You Want Diversity In The Arts? Maybe Look At Internships? The arts industry is heavily dependant on cheap labor provided through … [Read more...]

This Week: Is streaming performances good for the arts?... Why Are we still allowing ticket surcharges?... Another study tells us how to build arts audiences... TV's audience base is slipping away... How will the death of retail affect the arts? Streaming - Good Or Bad For The Arts? More and more arts organizations are live-streaming their events. But how does it impact … [Read more...]

This Week: Arts in, arts out (duh)... A link between ticket cost and attendance? (Nope!)... How short attention spans are changing behavior... Let's get beyond audience ratings... Can the arts make a difference in war zones? If You're Exposed To Art, You'll Pay Attention To Art: Some things just seem so obvious it goes without saying. But here's yet another study that … [Read more...]

This Week: Make art for people and they'll come (who knew?)... How we communicate culture shapes its values... Researchers are looking inside our brains to see how we react to art... Why people are becoming evangelical about the TV shows they like... Make It And They Will Come: It's a basic law of consumption. And museums have figured it out. Between 2007 and 2015, there … [Read more...]

Last Week: Government funding for the arts is more about audience and artists... And another comments community goes away... Shocking data on how people use (or don't use) music... A backlash against digital and a return to analog... How streaming has interrupted our impulse to want to "own" music. The fundamental argument in the fight about funding the Corporation for … [Read more...]