2003-07-16

The Financing and Managing of Culture in the US and in France: New Synergies and Interdependencies Between Private and Public Sources of Support;
March 6-7, 2003, Paris

This symposium was organised by the French-American Foundation and the Centre Français des Fondations and hosted at the French Ministry of Finance in Paris. It attracted over 400 participants and panellists. On the American side, foundations and the corporate world were represented, as well as scholars and researchers, and arts managers. French speakers included an overwhelming number of senior civil servants, museum directors (the French performing arts appeared slightly under-represented), experts on tax and non-profit law, and political scientists. The importance of the topic to the French political agenda was marked by the delivery of the opening and closing remarks by a representative of the Ministry of Culture and by the Minister of the Budget Alain Lambert.