The arts policies of the major parties appear to cancel each other out rather than break any new ground.
OTTAWAAs usual when arts people get together, the subject was money or the lack of it. The occasion: last weekend's roundtable on private-public partnerships in the arts world, held at the National Arts Centre, as orchestrated by NAC president Peter Herrndorf...
On 7 and 8 October the Service Centre for International Activities/SICA and Cultural Contact Point the Netherlands/CCP will be organising the international expert meeting and conference Artists on the Move, about the mobility of people working in the cultural sector...
On October 2-3, Belgrade will host the international workshop "Cultural policy research in the countries of South East Europe: setbacks and prospects"...
The purpose of this meeting (Shanghai, China, 25-27 September 2004) was to establish a workable network between autonomous art centres from Europe and Asia, wherein exchanges (artistically and intellectually) and projects could be implemented in a sustainable way
BalkanKult and association Progetto Musica are jointly working on developing cultural tourism between the two regions. This project includes networking 77 cities from both regions...
BalkanKult is jointly publishing a new cultural policy document "The Green Paper on the cultural policies of local and regional authorities in Europe" with Les Rencontres, a cultural network from Paris, France...
CAPACOA's 17th annual conference takes place from November 4-8 in Edmonton, Alberta. Read more about the topic of this conference here...
There was a fire the night of September 2, 2004 in the Duchesse Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, which is part of the UNESCO-world-heritage-list...
The third "Art of The Land " festival opens in Tel Aviv 65 years old power station on October 3rd. This is an unusual festival in the sense that it is open for three evenings only in spite of the fact that it exhibits some 40 contemporary artists and that numerous works are being created especially for this festival...
The Spanish general elections in March resulted in an unexpected change of the party in government, switching from the Popular Party, in office for 8 years, to the former governing party for 14 years, the Spanish Workers Socialist Party. It is worth to observe that one of the priorities of the new Prime Minister, Rodriguez Zapatero, is precisely culture...
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The Congress on Cultural Rights and Human Development, which Interarts organised for the Forum Barcelona 2004 on 23 to 27 August, has come to a successful end....
A new independent arts school, set up by Singapore's Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, is recruiting for these senior positions - Principal and Directors of Arts/Academic affairs.
What strategic aims do companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland pursue through their cultural commitment? Does cultural commitment generate competitive advantage? What do companies commit themselves to, and who makes the decisions here? These are the questions that a survey by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIAR) and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants considers.
H. Hughes, D. Allen, D. Wasik: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EUROPEAN "CAPITAL OF CULTURE" FOR TOURISM AND CULTURE: THE CASE OF KRAKOV 2000
The ambivalence concerning the tourism-culture relationship is especially pronounced in postcommunist European countries. Cultural tourism is regarded not only as a source of revenue but also as a means of projecting image. The European Capital of Culture (ECC) program has implications for tourism and image-generation. The Polish city of Krakow, designated an ECC for 2000, provides a case study for examining these issues. Managers in Krakow's tourism and culture sectors were interviewed to elicit their perceptions about the impact of the program. They expressed the opinion that much of the justification for ECC 2000 was image-enhancement and tourism promotion. They did not see the effects as cultural life as positive: creativity, innovation and longterm development were not encouraged. The paper examines the implications of cultural policies for other managers in the cultural sector.
The ambivalence concerning the tourism-culture relationship is especially pronounced in postcommunist European countries. Cultural tourism is regarded not only as a source of revenue but also as a means of projecting image. The European Capital of Culture (ECC) program has implications for tourism and image-generation. The Polish city of Krakow, designated an ECC for 2000, provides a case study for examining these issues. Managers in Krakow's tourism and culture sectors were interviewed to elicit their perceptions about the impact of the program. They expressed the opinion that much of the justification for ECC 2000 was image-enhancement and tourism promotion. They did not see the effects as cultural life as positive: creativity, innovation and longterm development were not encouraged. The paper examines the implications of cultural policies for other managers in the cultural sector.
A peculiar aspect of the fine arts as a profession is that it enjoys the participation and interest of a general public which is necessarily lacking in the knowledge and experience to make decisions for themselves.
Vyacheslav Glasychev: "I'M A PROVOKER AND INVESTIGATOR OF URBAN PROCESSES"
V.Glazychev, a Professor at the Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARCHI), a consultant for the Spatial Development Commission of the Volga Federal District, and the president of the interregional public foundation "Urban Institute", shares his experience in managing the development of city environment by means of innovative cultural projects. V.Glazychev accentuates the importance of combining efforts of different social communities (groups of intellectuals, artists and businessmen) for making a reality of the cultural projects, invented by art managers. The range of the professional activity of the latter ones, from Glazychev's point of view, includes: generating the ideas of changing the city environment (an art manager as an innovator and a script writer), organizing some concrete deeds for fulfilling these ideas (an art manager as a connecting link between city planning administration and autonomous executors), and examining the effects of these deeds (selfreflection).
V.Glazychev, a Professor at the Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARCHI), a consultant for the Spatial Development Commission of the Volga Federal District, and the president of the interregional public foundation "Urban Institute", shares his experience in managing the development of city environment by means of innovative cultural projects. V.Glazychev accentuates the importance of combining efforts of different social communities (groups of intellectuals, artists and businessmen) for making a reality of the cultural projects, invented by art managers. The range of the professional activity of the latter ones, from Glazychev's point of view, includes: generating the ideas of changing the city environment (an art manager as an innovator and a script writer), organizing some concrete deeds for fulfilling these ideas (an art manager as a connecting link between city planning administration and autonomous executors), and examining the effects of these deeds (selfreflection).
V. Babkov: TOWN-CONSTITUTIVE CULTURAL PROJECT: CITY AS A STAGE FOR QUALITY OF LIFE
The article focuses on examining the possible contributions of socio-cultural projects to regeneration of cities in postindustrial society, as soon as the latter maintains the view of the culture as one of the main sources of social and economic development of cities and regions and of the qualified management as the only way to success.
The second objective of the article is to reveal some conceptual directions of development of various cultural organizations, promising for both cultural institutions themselves and society as a whole. Contemporary city needs not just theatre, museum, philarmony and the like, but it expects cultural institutions to provide creative initiatives for changing the whole quality of life of urban population.
The author of the article also cherishes the hope that the given information will contribute to the emerging of the new generation of art managers - those ambitious, charismatic leaders, capable to
become initiators, cultivators and realizators of new creative ideas.
The article focuses on examining the possible contributions of socio-cultural projects to regeneration of cities in postindustrial society, as soon as the latter maintains the view of the culture as one of the main sources of social and economic development of cities and regions and of the qualified management as the only way to success.
The second objective of the article is to reveal some conceptual directions of development of various cultural organizations, promising for both cultural institutions themselves and society as a whole. Contemporary city needs not just theatre, museum, philarmony and the like, but it expects cultural institutions to provide creative initiatives for changing the whole quality of life of urban population.
The author of the article also cherishes the hope that the given information will contribute to the emerging of the new generation of art managers - those ambitious, charismatic leaders, capable to
become initiators, cultivators and realizators of new creative ideas.
Scholars and artists in any field of humanistic inquiry or artistic endeavor are invited to apply for the position of Distinguished Visiting Faculty in the Center for the Arts in Society. Applicants should hold senior rank and have interests corresponding to the Centers theme for the year 2005-2006, The Arts and Urban Revival, a theme broadly conceived to draw a range of applications from scholars and artists interested in ways that the arts--visual art, film, literature, dance, theater, etc.have contributed to the revival of urban centers and urbanized regions. We expect the applicant to have some special need for the resources here in Pittsburgh--the Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the University of Pittsburgh--or the resources at Carnegie Mellon University--for example, a particular colleague, or a specific department. In addition, we would like you to tell us how you can be of use to us.
We expect the Distinguished Faculty to contribute to the development and the creative life of the Center that links the humanities departments in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (English, History, Modern Languages, and Philosophy) with the College of Fine Arts (Architecture, Art, Design, Drama, Music). The Center for Arts in Society was created to bring these two colleges closer together. Finally, we would also like you to propose a course that will contribute to a new arts-histories program the Center is developing.
We expect the Distinguished Faculty to contribute to the development and the creative life of the Center that links the humanities departments in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (English, History, Modern Languages, and Philosophy) with the College of Fine Arts (Architecture, Art, Design, Drama, Music). The Center for Arts in Society was created to bring these two colleges closer together. Finally, we would also like you to propose a course that will contribute to a new arts-histories program the Center is developing.