An essay by Richard Holloway exploring the relationship between the artist and the state.
The international seminar on May 24th at the Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga focus on the present challenges in German and Latvian arts management. The lecturers provide an insight into the academical, practical and political status quo and challenges.
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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.
We’d like to introduce some of the latest developments in local arts administration and
urban development. The special topic "Arts and the City” should bring you an idea of
how various the picture of modern cultural cities can be around the world.
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?
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.
The April issue of the Arts Management Newsletter takes a special focus on Human Resource Management in the arts sector.
A conference about Expressive and Instrumental Values in Economic and Sociological Perspectives, taking place in Venice from 4-8 November, 2008
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.
The Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) is hosting the 15th International Conference on Cultural Economics at Northeastern University in Boston, from the evening of Thursday June 12th to Sunday June 15th 2008.
During the symposium "The Art of Music Education" in Hamburg we've got to learn the example of The Sage Gateshead near Newcastle (UK), which is indeed not only an outstanding arts venue, but also a centre where music education is an essential part of the whole programming. We spoke with the head of the education department, Joan-Albert Serra, asking him to share with us about his success.
An interview with Donna Walker-Kuhne, an accomplished arts administrator and adult educator, who has devoted her professional career to increasing the accessibility and connection to the arts by our Nations rapidly growing multicultural population.
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 World Music Central recently interviewed the singer Yungchen Lhamo from Tibet about her new recording and her music. Arts Management Network re-publish this exciting interview in order to learn more about Tibetian arts as well as to protest against the unacceptable Chinese policy to suppress the Tibetan people and their culture.
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.