Whether its the increasing number of practical examples of success in your own and other communities or the academic research of Dr. Richard Florida (The Rise of the Creative Class), the evidence is in: it pays for a municipality to make a proactive role in arts and cultural development a key part of its core "business."...

An article by Stefan Tobias, Hannover (Germany), in: Journal of Cultural Economics

By David Maddison (nstitute of Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense), in: Journal of Cultural Economics

Determining the Value of Cultural Goods: How Much (or How Little) Does Contingent Valuation Tell Us?

By David Throsby, in: Journal of Cultural Economics

Mainland Chinas film industry finds itself at a critical juncture. The governments decision to embrace market capitalism and booming economic growth are transforming all aspects of society...

Körber Foundation & "Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen"

Visiting Fellowships and Junior Visiting Fellowships on "History and Memory in Europe"

At the outset one must admit that the following remarks about the performance of trustees of cultural institutions are based on the experience of the writer in Israel, but there is reason to suspect that in other countries the situation may not be all that different...

For more than five years "Les rencontres Association des Villes et Régions de la Grande Europe pour la culture (Les rencontres Association of European Cities and Regions for Culture" , has been leading a large debate on the setting up of a cultural policy for the European cities and regions...

Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellows at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage will help expand and refine the theoretical framework for cultural heritage to include grassroots voices...

Consultants live in a nether world between practitioners (arts managers, public officials and, yes, occasionally even artists) and academics. The latter are Keynes' scribblers', whose hypotheses and hunches and, on rare occasions, full blown theories we reduce to the pat shorthand of our trade: concepts such as Baumol's cost disease, creative clusters, social capital.

The UK's Museums Association recently published the results of the first comprehensive survey on museum sector salaries in 15 years...

China's cultural sector is growing rapidly in size and scope and sophistication in parallel with that country's staggering pace of economic development...

THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO SEEKS FULL-TIME, TENURE-TRACK COLLEAGUES
with a commitment to excellence in teaching, and to innovative work or research in their field...

Museums operate in a leisure environment in which there is increasing competition for audiences. Among their competitors are hallmark events such as annual arts festivals and sporting finals and mega events such as the Olympic Games, which consume media attention, siphon away sponsorship funds and attract large audiences...

A recent study by the RAND organization proposes a new model of audience development in which potential audience members are segmented into three groups: participating, inclined to participate and disinclined to participate...

Arts organizations utilize conventional, linear, stepwise forms of marketing. Much of what is implemented is at best an inefficient form of marketing and at worst an inappropriate way of securing visitor numbers, making profit from merchandising and encouraging repeat visits...

This paper identifies the need for functional programming with regard to the construction or renovation of a cultural building, preferably before design begins.

New York Citys Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA, possesses one of the richest collections of modern art in the world. It has a staff of 600, including some of the worlds top specialists in their respective fields, and an annual budget of $85 million....

When Richard Florida took the mainstage at last year's Americans for the Arts conference in Portland, Oregon, the woman next to me - we had never met - leaned in with an immediate response...