Are Managers doing everything wrong these days? A plea for goal-oriented leadership and sensible management, written on the centennial of Peter F. Druckers birth in 1909.

Our society has changeddramaticallyover the past few decades. We talk about it all the time in the context of business (flattening), government and politics (opening), and community (connecting). But what about arts, humanities, and culture?

It`s the third time, the Institute für Kulturkonzepte, based in Vienna and Hamburg, publish "An Anatomy of Ars Management" in their range of specialist books on arts management including articles in English and German. This year the articles are much influenced by the development of arts management and relate to important trends in even this area.The motivation therefore are the anniversaries of both institutes: The Institut für Kulturkonzepte in Vienna is celebrating its 15th year since its founding, whilst the Institut für Kulturkonzepte in Hamburg has reached the five-year milestone.

This major event...involving the collaboration between artists and poets... is consistent with UNESCOs principle objective as regards the promotion of intercultural dialogue and cultural diversity. It will no doubt contribute to emphasizing the unique role of the arts as a means of dialogue, communication and understanding... giving its aim of promoting ethical values through artistic expression and creativity...

UKIP Media & Events has just published its latest Auditoria Magazine, which has been switched into an annual publication. Auditoria annual is circulated to 12,000 readers worldwide, bringing together the views and ideas of leading experts in the area of entertainment-venue design, operations and technologies. Auditoria caters to those in the business of operating theatres and performing arts centres, concert halls, convention centres, and cinemas, covering subject areas ranging from security, ticketing, seating to lighting.

The Cultural Data Project (CDP) is a powerful, online management tool designed to strengthen arts and cultural organizations, advance learning and exchange throughout the cultural sector, and help funders more effectively plan for and evaluate their individual and collective grantmaking activities. The CDP allows users to track their institutions financial and programmatic performance over time and to benchmark themselves against comparable organizations.

The african organisation CREATE has just released the first Directory of Arts and Culture Organizations & Festivals. The directory is comprised of two sections. The first part lists organizations which are based within the CEMAC region while the second part lists pan-African and global organizations by area of activity.

The Culturelink Network celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. To mark this occasion, we are organizing the Third World Culturelink Conference under the title "Networks The Evolving Aspects of Culture in the 21st Century", to be held from 13 to 15 November 2009 in Zagreb, Croatia.

16th International Conference on Cultural Economics by the ACEI

Copenhagen, 10-12 June 2010

Call for Papers

The Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) invites you to attend its 16th international conference on cultural economics in Copenhagen on June 10-12, 2010.

Auerbach Glasow French, Architectural Lighting Design and Consulting, has won two international lighting design awards for the newly renovated and reinstalled Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) Award of Excellence, among the highest honor given by that program, was awarded to the design team and presented on May 6, 2009. Additionally, the Award of Merit of the International Illumination Design Awards was awarded to the designers by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA). The IESNA Award was announced on May 12, 2009, and will be presented on November 15, 2009, at the IES Annual Conference.

Following on from LabforCulture's past successes of blogging and videoing from European cultural events, the platform is bringing you more from the European Culture Forum in Brussels, 28th-30 September. LabforCulture teamed up with Culture Action Europe and the resulting commentary is new and interesting from some key people working in culture, across Europe.

Firstly, Odile Quintin, DG Education, Culture and Youth, European Commission who gave the nod to the purpose of the Forum gathering and laid out her thinking on an open approach for future cultural development into 2013. Steve Green, EUNIC, described his role as a rapporteur of the event, EUNIC's global reach, and gave congratulations to the Commission in the engagement of their development, international and external departments at the Forum. Michael Wimmer, EDUCULT, highlighted three positive developments he experienced during the Forum, one being this new openness, and lateral involvement of other sectors and actors by the Commission.

A survey of more than 60 major art museums in the US shows that the directors of more than one third have recently taken pay cuts, many of them substantial, and senior staff at most of those institutions have also had their compensation trimmed. The cuts range from salary reductions and forfeiture of bonuses to unpaid leave.

Even where there have not been massive layoffs, hiring freezes leave posts vacant and incentives induce early retirement. In the past year, New Yorks Museum of Modern Art has cut its staff from around 850 to 741 through a hiring freeze and natural attrition.

The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) and the Rhode Island Foundation are collaborating to provide scholarship grants to Rhode Island individual artists and organizations to attend the Arts Marketing Project (NAMP) Conference in Providence, RI, October 30November 2, 2009.

Novato, CA -- Hundreds of top arts marketing and development professionals will gather on October 8-11, 2009 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles for the Arts Reach National Arts Marketing and Development Conference 2009. Are You Ready for the Wave of Change? Breakthrough Strategies for Growing Audiences, Donors, and Boards in the Coming Decade is the theme of the event.

In light of the economic downturn, this conference is designed to help organizations focus their precious resources in the most effective ways to maximize the achievement of their organizations mission. The faculty includes leaders from such organizations as the Los Angeles Opera, the Arizona Theatre Company, the California African American Museum, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and many others.

This Analysis Report presents the findings of the Research on Adult Education Practices in Cultural Institutions phase of the CONNECTION project in 5 countries: Bulgaria, Lithuania, Italy, Romania and Turkey. It provides an overall image of adult education practices developed by cultural organisations, with the aim to support the development of two training curricula for cultural professionals involved in educational activities and managers of cultural institutions, representing an important part of project results. The study contributes to a conceptual framework that enhances understanding of the European development of life long learning process, focusing on education taking place within cultural institutions.

Culture pour tous is joining with the French organizations Espace Pandora and Médiation culturelle to present the next international forum on cultural mediation as part of the 22nd Entretiens put on by Frances Centre Jacques Cartier. On Monday, November 31 and Tuesday, December 1, 2009, some 50 guest speakers from Europe, North America and Africa will gather at the Théâtre Asphodèle in Lyons to present their latest projects and reflections.

More than 300 exhibitors from 15 countries and regions will showcase their products at this years Prolight + Sound Shanghai. The show which is one of Asias leading events for professional audio, lighting and entertainment technology, will take place from 13 16 October at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. As well as the exhibition, there will be a number of educational and interactive events.