Oklahoma City University hosts probably the only graduate education, which combines dance and arts management. Dirk Heinze made an interview with the director of this course, John Bedford, not only with questions about the course itself, but also about the latest trends in the dance sector.

Many of the most sought after museum director positions in the United States are unfilled, some for as long as a year. Over the last ten years, there has always been more than twenty different art museums without directors. And frequently, as was the case recently with the Milwaukee Museum of Art, its new director was recruited from a directorship at another art museum (the San Jose Museum of Art), leaving a vacancy there and the same number of openings. What are the causes of this
phenomenon and what are the implications?

A research commissioned from IPSOS-REID by Cultural Careers Council Ontario underlined the importance of a professional development in Ontarios Cultural Sector.

Trends in arts and culture tend to be longer-lasting and less fragile than in other fields such as clothing design. Most herding models are not able to explain such stability, instead predicting informational cascades to be fragile and fads to be frequent. The present contribution is able to explain the hysterisis of trends in arts by incorporating the accumulation of consumption capital into a herding model.

This paper considers the role and value of museum networks in Europe and explores the range of benefits which museums can gain from working within networks of various types.

Interest in public and cultural diplomacy, after a long post-Cold War decline, has surged in the last few years. This new focus inside and outside government has two causes: first, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the perception that the U.S. is losing a war of culture against Islamic extremists; and second, the documented global collapse of positive public sentiment toward the U.S. But the task facing policy leaders translating interest into action must accommodate the reality that government cultural work has been diminished in scope even as trade in cultural products and Internet communication has increased the complexity and informal character of cross-cultural communication.

The Fund for Arts and Culture sponsored this Handbook. It was written by Jillian Poole, founder and President of The Fund who has a wide background in institutional development, government liaison and nonprofit management including public relations and fundraising. The handbook is available online in English, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Serbian, Romanian, and Albanian

Every time cultural heritage contributes to artistic, educational or social development, it is a source of value: esthetical value, experience value, existence value for which the production implies economic movement, and not to take this into consideration would lead to a lack of fundamental understanding.

The 21st annual Arts Advocacy Day is the only national event that brings together a broad cross section of Americas cultural and civic organizations, along with hundreds of grassroots advocates from across the country, to underscore the importance of developing strong public policies and appropriating increased public funding for the arts.

The European Commission Delegation in Russia has recently launched a call for proposals to support cultural cooperation initiatives between Russia and the EU, which is open to projects from non-profit organisations based in Russia or EU member countries.

Over the past couple of years museums have been subject to growing criticism of their increasingly commercial stance. A related trend, the contours of which are only now becoming apparent, concerns the shift in the behavior of commercial galleries and auction houses, which are becoming decidedly more museum-like.

Under the leadership of Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann, the Tourism, Arts, Parks, Entertainment and Sports Committee, discussed how to better position tourism and arts issues before the presidential candidates. The mayors strategize on ways to get these issues before the candidates and on the agenda of the new President.

Under the title "The Position of Cultural Workers in Creative Industries. The South-eastern European Perspective", the final report of the Cultural Policy Research Award 2005 project, written by Jaka Primorac, member of the Culturelink Team, has been made fully available online.

MIAMI, FLInstitute of Museum and Library Services Director Anne-Imelda Radice released results of InterConnections: A National Study of Users and Potential Users of Online Information March 6 at the 9th annual WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World in Miami. This new report offers insight into the ways people search for information in the online age, and how this impacts the ways they interact with public libraries and museums, both online and in person.