This study analyses the knowledge-creation process in the TARU artist training project, focusing on how different conceptions of knowledge affect the learning process and how the learning process can be nurtured.
In the City of Halle (Saale), a university city with a rich cultural scene and tradition, an excellent place to live and to spend leisure hours, a city which in 2006 will celebrate its 1200th anniversary, the position of head of the Händel-Haus (with the title Director) within the Department of Culture and Education will be filled from November 1, 2005.
Market'eum 2005 will deliver a forum and actual insights in the development in the field of museum marketing. Market'eum 2005 on the one hand will give a status quo, and will on the other hand inspire the participants with new ideas and opinions.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC) offers a ten-month comprehensive arts management fellowship program...
As part of its strategy to strengthen the capacities of cultural actors in developing countries, the Global Alliance is developing a programme to support and create a network of festivals and cultural events in countries from the African, Carribean and Pacific region (ACP).
Case-Study of the Museum Directors of the Russian North
Compton Verney and The Foundling Museum have been shortlisted for the UKs prestigious Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year 2005.
Coverage of Chinas first joint-venture to operate a theatre. Zanaida des Aubris, recently appointed Artistic Director of the newly designed Hangzhou Grand Theatre, tells us the background to this ground-braking project and its success in a county where there is little public awareness of the type of work theatres do. Her article highlights once more the dynamic changes taking place in China.
ARSIS is an art and cultural policy magazine published by the Arts Council of Finland, providing information about art promotion, the preparation of art promotion measures in the public administration, and their impact. ARSIS has a circulation of 4000 and is published quarterly: two larger theme issues and two bulletins. The first theme issue for 2004 presents new arts council members (in Finnish) and second international cooperation of the arts councils and media art (in English).
ARTSPACE leads Auckland's contemporary art scene, presenting cutting edge work from New Zealand and International artists. We present approximately ten exhibitions a year, with additional space and contacts to support performances, screenings and lectures. Over our 17 year history, ARTSPACE has been led by five different directors. We are seeking a Director with a passionate and strong perspective on contemporary art, and a desire to address the changing conditions of art practice.
Performing Arts Presenting Field Assessment
Arts Presenters has recently completed a national assessment of the key issues and opportunities facing the performing arts presenting field.
Arts Presenters has recently completed a national assessment of the key issues and opportunities facing the performing arts presenting field.
"Digital media have not only made in-roads in the way visual artists, musicians, designers, film makers and other cultural practitioners work - they have created a new context". Michiel Schwarz's insightful Dutch policy paper on "e-culture", that has just been published in English, says stirringly that "the key here is not doing the old things with different tools, but rather 'to do other things'. Digital technologies and the Internet are opening the door to new forms of expression, changing the roles played by cultural institutions, and placing the audience and user increasingly centre stage".
The Penn Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania has a small number of $1500 stipends available for the 2005-2006 academic year for faculty in the humanities and allied disciplines from Philadelphia-area colleges and universities and for department directors and curators of Philadelphia-area arts and cultural organizations. The stipends are meant to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and scholarship across the region's academies and cultural institutions.
WORKSHOP: Saturday, January 8, 9:00 AM - 12:00 AM
MODERATOR: Elizabeth Simpson, The Bard Graduate Center
More than one year after the beginning of the Iraq war, the cultural heritage of Mesopotamia is still in jeopardy. Many Iraqi cultural institutions were looted, the most conspicuous being the Iraq Museum in
Baghdad, and archaeological sites throughout the country are being systematically plundered...
MODERATOR: Elizabeth Simpson, The Bard Graduate Center
More than one year after the beginning of the Iraq war, the cultural heritage of Mesopotamia is still in jeopardy. Many Iraqi cultural institutions were looted, the most conspicuous being the Iraq Museum in
Baghdad, and archaeological sites throughout the country are being systematically plundered...
After the decade of the dramatic decline due to the collapse of Soviet Union positive tendencies emerged in the cultural sphere of Ukraine...
In contrast to last year's conference at the Deutsches Museum Munich, which celebrated the museum's 100th birthday, the ECSITE Annual Conference 2004 was held in a newly born science museum: CosmoCaixa in Barcelona, only inaugurated in late September 2004...
One of the main reasons why misunderstandings occur between Chinese and western arts managers could be attributed to the differences in perception between the two cultures. The aim of this paper is to encourage Western arts managers to consider the power of culture and perception, and the impact of this on work performance, when working in a Chinese city such as Shanghai...
Cultural policy in Singapore arguably takes on a policing dimension, as it is typically about media censorship vis-à-vis the maintenance of social and political control. At the same time, it aims to extract economic productivity from citizens working in the arts and cultural sector...
Government opts for further consideration after a Three-year Study
This paper is based on an analysis and discussion of the present situation of the management of the culture and information sector in Vietnam from three perspectives: management tools, organizational structure and human resources...