ArtsManaged Field Notes

by E. Andrew Taylor

Weekly updates and insights on Arts Management practice. Part of the ArtsManaged bundle of Field Guide, Field Notes, and YouTube Videos (see links for details).

Best practice is the worst

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. David Wagoner, from "Lost" THIS NEWSLETTER HAS MOVED TO SUBSTACK! Find and comment on this post over...

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23 days ago • 2 min read

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Beauty and the Balance Sheet

First you figure out what each one means by itself, the jingle, the periwinkle, the scallop full of moonlight. Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story.Mary Oliver, from "Breakage" THIS NEWSLETTER HAS MOVED TO SUBSTACK! Find and comment on this post over there, instead. Weekly Features...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

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Three paths to action in Arts Management

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take. David Whyte, from "Start Close In" THIS NEWSLETTER HAS MOVED TO SUBSTACK! Find and comment on this post over there, instead. Weekly Features (scroll down to find them)...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Hosting, guesting, and ghosting in Arts Management

We are so honored that you are here, they said. We know that this is your homeland, they said. The admission price is five dollars, they said. Here is your button for the event, they said. It means so much to us that you are here, they said. We want to write an apology letter,...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

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Doing the wrong thing righter…

What good is accuracy amidst the perpetual scattering that unspools the world. Ada Limón, from "It's the Season I Often Mistake" THIS NEWSLETTER HAS MOVED TO SUBSTACK!Find and comment on this post over there, instead. Weekly Features (scroll down to find them) Function of the Week:...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Arts Management, the parts, and the whole…

Put a finger to my wrist or my temple and feel it: I am magic. Life and all its good and bad and ugly things, scary things which I would like to forget, beautiful things which I would like to remember —the whole messy lovely true story of myself pulses within me. Eve L. Ewing, from...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

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Arts Management and the cost of virtue…

We all have reasonsfor moving.I moveto keep things whole.Mark Strand, from "Keeping Things Whole" THIS NEWSLETTER HAS MOVED TO SUBSTACK! Find and comment on this post over there, instead. Weekly Features (scroll down to find them) Function of the Week: Marketing | Framework of the Week:...

2 months ago • 2 min read

Arts Management, ownership, and control…

I read somewhere that if pedestrians didn’t break traffic laws to cross Times Square whenever and by whatever means possible, the whole city would stop, it would stop. Cars would back up to Rhode Island, an epic gridlock not even a cat could thread through. It’s not law but the sprawl of...

2 months ago • 2 min read

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Ambition and capacity in Arts Management…

There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything THIS NEWSLETTER HAS MOVED TO SUBSTACK! Find and comment on this post over there, instead. Weekly Features (scroll...

3 months ago • 2 min read

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In Arts Management, the gift isn't simple…

Will you ever bring a better gift for the worldthan the breathing respect that you carrywherever you go right now?William Stafford, from "You Reading This, Be Ready" THIS NEWSLETTER HAS MOVED TO SUBSTACK! Find and comment on this post over there, instead. Weekly Features (scroll down to find...

3 months ago • 2 min read

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