Authors: J-F. Ouellet, M-A. Savard, F. Colbert

The authors develop the concept of personality as applied to performing arts venues.

Authors: R. Rentschler, D. Shilbury

The authors report the results of a journal rating survey assessing 14 publications dedicated to arts management and related topics. Establishing a rating scheme for journals is an important step in the professionalization of an academic field. The authors argue that the development of a rating system in arts management is in the best interests of the discipline.

An essay by Richard Holloway exploring the relationship between the artist and the state.

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?

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.

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.

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 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.