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In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that 'women don't paint very well'. Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gørrill argues is prolific discrimination in the artworld. In a groundbreaking study of gender and value, Gørrill proves that there are few aesthetic differences in men and women's painting, but that men's art is valued at up to 80 per cent more than women's. Indeed, the power of masculinity is such that when men sign their work it goes up in value, yet when women sign their work it goes down. Museums, the author attests, are also complicit in this vicious cycle as they collect tokenist female artwork which impinges upon its artists' market value. An essential text for students and teachers, Gørrill's book is provocative and challenges existing methodologies whilst introducing shocking evidence. She proves how the price of being a woman impacts upon all forms of artistic currency, be it social, cultural or economic and in the vanguard of the 'Me Too' movement calls for the artworld to take action.
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020-02-06
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class is the first extensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Encompassing contemporary research in ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, history, and race studies, the volume explores the intersections between music and class, and how the meanings of class are asserted and denied, confused and clarified, through music. With chapters on key genres, traditions, and subcultures, as well as fresh and engaging directions for future scholarship, the volume considers how music has thought about and articulated social class. It consists entirely of original contributions written by internationally renowned scholars, and provides an essential reference point for scholars interested in the relationship between popular music and social class.
Bloomsbury , 2020-02-06
This 250+ page book includes essays based on most of the presentations featured at both the pre-conference talks and the main day of the conference. Chapters include: With the People: Collecting Contemporary Protest Material; Taking A Stand Against Neutrality; In Search of Power and Resistance in the Archive; Defining Digital Success; Museums, Networks and Active Memories; The Art and Science of the Pop-up; and What Museums Can Learn From the Theatre. Order your copy and explore the ideas that are shaping the future of museums around the world.
Museum iD, 2020-01-01
This toolkit distils some of these conversations, flags areas for critical engagement, and serves as a practical starting point for museum professionals who are interested in working with technologies that fit within the broad field of Artificial Intelligence. The aim of this toolkit is to support non specialists to better understand the possibilities of these technologies, and empower a wide range of museum professionals to develop - strategically, ethically, and operationally robust project plans.
 
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By Goldsmiths, University of London, 2020-01-01
This book addresses the link between visual literacy - people’s ability to interpret and skillfully use images - and art museums. Art museums invite you to look at objects in different ways. They stimulate your visual curiosity, give you visual satisfaction, and allow the visual to merge with other sensory experiences. All of this makes art museums potentially the ideal learning environments for acquiring visual literacy skills.
But how should an art museum stimulate visual literacy in practice? How can it actually become such an ideal learning place? How can it spark visitors’ visual literacy and increase their knowledge about it?
Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2019-12-03
Communication is generally considered to be one of the most crucial aspects of any organisation, whether it is commercial, or not-for-profit like ICOM and its Committees. Every year, our Committees organise hundreds of activities, conferences and workshops. However, the information sometimes does not reach the potential global audience that ICOM has. For this reason, the Communications team of ICOM has created the ICOM Social Media Guidelines, in an effort to share good practices and tips on how to create communication campaigns and efficiently manage social media accounts.
 
https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ICOMSocial-media-guidelinesWeb.pdf
 
ICOM, 2019-12-01
This  Cultural  Mobility  Funding  Guide  presents  a  mapping  of  funding opportunities for interna-tional cultural mobility, focused on the African continent. The  main  objective  of  this  cul-tural mobility funding guide is to provide an overview of the fund-ing bodies and programmes that support the international mobility of artists and cultural operators from Africa and travelling to Africa. It also aims to provide input for funders and policy makers on how to fill the existing gaps in funding for international cultural exchange.
 
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2019-12-01
This book provides new insights into the relationship of the field of arts and cultural management and cultural rights on a global scale.
 
Globalisation and internationalisation have facilitated new forms for exchange between individuals, professions, groups, localities and nations in arts and cultural management. Such exchanges take place through the devising, programming, exhibition, staging, marketing, and administration of project activities. They also take place through teaching and learning within higher education and cultural institutions, which are now internationalised practices themselves.
 
With a focus on the fine, visual and performing arts, the book positions arts and cultural management educators and practitioners as active agents whose decisions, actions and interactions represent how we, as a society, approach, relate to, and understand ourselves and others. This consideration of education and practice as socialisation processes with global, political and social implications will be an invaluable resource to academics, practitioners and students engaging in arts and cultural management, cultural policy, cultural sociology, global and postcolonial studies.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019-11-20
 
This book exploresat the macro, meso and micro levels and in terms of qualitative as well as quantitative studiesthe current and future role of museums for art and society. Given the dynamic developments in art and society, museums need to change in order to remain (and in some ways, regain) relevance. This relevance is in the sense of a power to influence. Additionally museums have challenges that arise in the production of art through the use of permanent and rapidly changing technologies. This book examines how museums deal with the increasing importance of performance art and social interactive art, artistic disciplines which refuse to use classical or digital artistic media in their artistic processes. The book also observes how museums are adapting in the digital age. It addresses such questions as, "How to keep museums in contact with recipients of art in a world in which the patterns of communication and perception have changed dramatically," and also "Can the art museum, as a real place, be a counterpart in a virtualized and digitalized society or will museums need to virtualize and even globalize themselves virtually?" Chapters also cover topics such as the merits of digital technologies in museums and how visitors perceive these changes and innovations.
Springer, 2019-10-25
Museums are increasingly developing international strategies to raise their profiles outside of their home markets. How can we define this trend? This book is based on a multiple correspondence analysis of a database populated by the results of a survey conducted by the author on international museums. The study reveals that museums fall into four categories regarding their internationalization strategies and can have two complementary international strategies: one geared toward economic profitability and one geared toward the preservation of heritage. However, traditional business models for museums are currently facing challenges from a decline in public subsidies, uncertainty surrounding private donations and stagnant ticket sales. The author argues that the internationalization of museums is having an impact on the historical models and is contributing to the evolution of these business models.
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2019-09-30
What is a buffer? Is it a control zone? Or is it rather a transition space, a blurred boundary? Since "buffer zones" were introduced in the late 1970s as a complementary protection layer to World Heritage sites, the dimensions of heritage have changed significantly; from physical to intangible, from defined to diffused. Now, buffers can present all these different characters, even at the same time.Using buffers as the main connection thread, this book is a collection of complementary studies that explore the contemporary challenges in heritage definition and management. With a focus on European and Asian historical territories, this book tracks umbrella terms, from their genesis inside international discussions and cultural exchanges, to their specific interpretation in top-down on-site strategies.

 
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2019-09-23
In The True North: How Canadian Creativity Changed the World, D. Paul Schafer explores the extraordinary legacy of generations of Canadian artists, inventors, scientists, politicians, and activists - a legacy of creativity that has not only shaped today’s Canada but has made a huge impact on the world as a whole.
In addition to describing the many ways in which Canadian creativity has shaped the world, the author in his concluding chapter also considers how these and other contributions might be enhanced and expanded in the years ahead, particularly in such areas as the environment, multiculturalism, the arts, and artificial intelligence.
Rock's Mills Press, 2019-08-25
Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy traces the transformation of museums from publicly or privately funded heritage institutions into active players in the economic sector of culture. Exploring how this transformation reconfigured cultural diplomacy, the book argues that museums have become autonomous diplomatic players on the world stage.

The book offers a comparative analysis across a range of case studies in order to demonstrate that museums have gone global in the era of neoliberal globalisation. Grincheva focuses first on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which is well known for its bold revolutionising strategies of global expansion: museum franchising and global corporatisation. The book then goes on to explore how these strategies were adopted across museums around the world and analyses two cases of post-Guggenheim developments in China and Russia: the K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong and the International Network of Foundations of the State Hermitage Museum in Russia. These cases from more authoritarian political regimes evidence the emergence of alternative avenues of museum diplomacy that no longer depend on government commissions to serve immediate geo-political interests.
Taylor & Francis Inc, 2019-07-05
This white paper provides a global analysis of consumer book markets today, summarising key trends and relevant data on book markets around the world.The paper examines recent digital innovations and examples of transformation, such as e-books and audiobooks, as well as the use of streaming and subscription models, and the increasing segmentation of publishing. It identifies new opportunities and challenges arising from publishing models such as self-publishing, audiobooks and streaming, and it highlights new forms of competition resulting from screen-based approaches to storytelling, with content shared through online and TV streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon and Disney.To conclude the paper explores detailed data, a market analysis and the lessons learned about the business of books in today's new format-neutral and media-agnostic contexts.
 
https://www.buchmesse.de/files/media/pdf/FBM_BusinessClub_WhitePaper_2019.pdf
 
Frankfurter Buchmesse’s Business Club, 2019-07-01
Kulturelle Teilhabe ist in aller Munde. Sie zielt - wie politische, wirtschaftliche und soziale Teilhabe - auf die Beteiligung, Mitwirkung und Mitverantwortung der Bevölkerung am öffentlichen Leben. Kulturelle Teilhabe trägt zu gesellschaftlicher Inklusion, Kohäsion und kultureller Vielfalt bei. Das Handbuch bietet eine Übersicht zu Geschichte und Begriff der kulturellen Teilhabe, lotet die Handlungsfelder von Teilhabe aus und stellt konkrete praktische Handlungsansätze vor. Es richtet sich an Projektverantwortliche in Kultur und anderen teilhaberelevanten Bereichen sowie an private und öffentliche Förderinstitutionen, die sich für gesellschaftliche Teilhabe engagieren. Das Handbuch umfasst Beiträge auf Deutsch, Französisch und Italienisch mit Zusammenfassungen in den jeweils anderen Sprachen.
 
Everyone is talking about participation in arts and culture. Like political, economic and social participation, it aims at the involvement and co-responsibility of the population in public life. Cultural participation contributes to social inclusion, cohesion and cultural diversity. The handbook offers an overview of the history and concept of cultural participation, explores the fields of action and presents concrete practical approaches. It is aimed at project managers in culture and other fields relevant to participation as well as at private and public funding institutions that are committed to social participation. The handbook includes articles in German, French and Italian with summaries in the other languages.
Seismo Verlag, 2019-06-13
Connecting migration studies and the theory of valuation, this collection offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of transnational music practices. Conceiving music as a practice not confined to audibility, the contributions reveal how music emerges in concrete situations through people, objects, techniques, meanings, and emotions in different parts of the world and during different historic periods. Values are thereby created and shared, and creative processes are evaluated in terms of diversity, space and exchange.
This book presents cases of contemporary, popular and traditional music, festivals and trade fairs, albums and band projects, shedding light on the tensions between the transfer, reconstruction and creation of music in different contexts.
 
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transcript Verlag, 2019-06-04
What does music have to do with cultural heritage? Antique sites, temples, beautiful churches, bridges, houses, historic city centres, decorated with a heritage label, such as UNESCO world heritage sites, are often the first associations with the term cultural heritage. When in 2018, the EU celebrated the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH), the European Music Council (EMC) played an active role as advocate for intangible cultural heritage in the debate. As a follow-up to the year, the EMC now presents this book to provide a snapshot on music and heritage in Europe. It includes the policy perspective (EU and UNESCO) as well as concrete examples from medieval Norwegian ballads to Gaelic music to the Hungarian Dance House Movement or the Polonaise.
 
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European Music Council, 2019-06-01
This book critically engages the shortcomings of the field of international heritage law, seen through the lenses of the five major UNESCO treaties for the safeguarding of different types of heritage. It argues that these five treaties have effectively prevented local communities, who bear the brunt of the costs associated with international heritage protection, from having a say in how their heritage is managed. The exclusion of local communities often alienates them not only from international decision-making processes but also from their cultural heritage itself, ultimately meaning that systems put in place for the protection of cultural heritage contribute to its disappearance in the long term.

International Heritage Law for Communities adds to existing literature by looking at these UNESCO treaties not as isolated regimes, but rather as belonging to a discursive continuum on cultural heritage. In doing so, the book focuses on themes that cut across the relevant UNESCO regimes like the use of expert rule in international heritage law, economics, the relationship between heritage and the environment, among others, rather than the regimes themselves. It uses this mechanism to highlight the blind spots and unintended consequences of UNESCO treaties and how choices made in their drafting have continuing and potentially negative impacts on how we think about and safeguard heritage.
OUP Oxford, 2019-05-30
When we think about museums, we traditionally think about their cultural value. Museums safeguard our cultural heritage for current and future generations. Museums are increasingly transforming from guardians of our shared heritage to active agents in our contemporary society. Their missions, responsibilities, and modes of engagement within communities are in constant process of transformation responding to social and economic development at local, national, and global levels.
 
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2019-05-29
Exploring archaeology, community engagement and cultural heritage protection in South Asia, this book considers heritage management strategies through community engagement, bringing together the results of research undertaken by archaeologists, heritage practitioners and policy makers working towards the preservation and conservation of both cultural and natural heritage. The book highlights the challenges faced by communities, archaeologists and heritage managers in post-conflict and post-disaster contexts in their efforts to protect, preserve and present cultural heritage, including issues of sustainability, linkages with existing community programmes and institutions, and building administrative and social networks. The case-studies illustrate larger-scale projects to small micro-level engagement, across a range of geographical, political, social and economic contexts, providing a framework that links and synchronises programmes of archaeological activities alongside active community engagement.
Palgrave Pivot, 2019-05-22
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