First of all, thank you for subscribing to the Management and the Arts website. As we transition to the sixth edition, I plan to move current subscribers to the new website. However, if you want your name removed from the email list, let me know by sending a short note to mgtandthearts5e@gmail.com. Please put the word REMOVE in the subject line, OK? Thanks. This will be the final posting on the website for the fifth edition of Management and the Arts. The first update was all the way back in October 2014, which means there have been nearly 90 posts over the last seven years. I hope you have fo ..read more

Museum Training Resource. Digital Strategies and Ticket Buyers. I have three resources to share with you this month that I think you will find valuable. The first includes a training website for small museums, and the other two provide marketing insights and tools that students will find helpful and arts managers can immediately use. Museum Learning Hub Free training opportunities targeted at arts organizations can be hard to come by. However, the Museum Learning Hub offers small museums an excellent learning platform. For example, they have ten courses that cover topics such as digital access ..read more

Digital Collections. 6th edition Update. This month I thought it would be valuable to share several museum websites so you can see how digital collections are being deployed. Museum Best Practices The recent article in the culture360 magazine profiled the M+ Museum in Hong Kong and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney as examples of two institutions doing a good job digitizing their art collections. The M+ Museum, housed in the West Kowloon Cultural District, finally opened in November 2021 (construction began in 2014). The museum’s staff have created a colorful website with access to a comprehensi ..read more

Museum innovation. Culture in Crisis. Sixth edition update. This month I want to share two articles from the United Kingdom that I think are of interest. The first focuses on technology trends in museums and heritage sites and the other is a report about the impact of Covid on the UK cultural sector. I also want to give you a quick progress report on the sixth edition of Management and the Arts. Technical Innovation The folks at the Museums + Heritage Advisor recently offered an overview of eight trends they see being employed in the museum world. The projection mapping approach is popular and ..read more

Two Arts Leaders. Sixth edition update. Happy New Year! This month I have two articles to share about arts leaders and leadership and I have a quick update on the status of the sixth edition of Management and the Arts. Learning from Leaders Chapter 8 in Management and the Arts 5e focuses on the function of leading and the leadership process. I think these articles below can help students see how concepts covered in that chapter can be operationalized. Asking students to identify how various theories are used by each leader would be one way to start. There are also examples of how each leader e ..read more

Audience Building. Cultural Democracy. For the last three weeks I have been working on a presentation I am giving later this month about audience development and engagement. I thought it might be of value to share three of the many resources I have been using on topics related to audiences and cultural democracy. Audience Building The last 18 months have provided an opportunity for the leadership of cultural organizations to rethink their programming and their relationship to their communities. One way to help students studying arts management gain perspective about community engagement and au ..read more

Psychological Safety. Toxic Cultures. Accessibility Support. This month I thought it would be valuable to share links to two very different articles that focus on psychological safety or the lack thereof. The first offers a roadmap for creating a psychologically safe workplace. The second is an excellent example of how not to create such an environment and the damage it can cause. The Psychology of the Workplace The workplace is a social environment that can be challenging to navigate at times. Erin Gloeckner examines how easy it is to encounter workplaces that seem to do their best to discour ..read more

Hiring Process.Cognitive Bias.Over-Optimistic? This month, I thought these three sources were nicely linked together around the theme of successfully challenging assumptions and being overly optimistic. Creating a more diverse workforce in arts organizations requires examining our biases and checking with ourselves to see if we are being unrealistic about the outcomes we expect to achieve. But first, a quick update about this website. I went through the learning resources and tried to update, replace or delete links that were no longer working correctly. Would you please let me know if you enc ..read more

Update on the sixth edition. Mental Models. Agency. I hope your summer is going well, despite the COVID variant complicating attempts to resume some kind of normalcy in our lives. The variant certainly is making the job of arts managers trying to reconnect their organizations with the public much more difficult. This month I thought I would highlight two articles that focus on how we think and act.  But first, let me give you an update on the sixth edition of Management and the Arts. After two years of work, I uploaded all the revised chapters and illustrations at the end of July so my pu ..read more