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This course is intended for arts managers, arts funders and policy makers, artists, researchers, teachers, sympathizers, and thinkers. It is designed to provide a deeper understanding of some of the most pressing issues affecting the arts in the United States and around the world. It also seeks to examine the implications for the cultural sector of the rapidly changing political, economic and social context in which policies affecting cultural provision are formed and executed
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Celebrating the 25th years of the Research Center for Arts and Culture
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This session reviews briefly the arguments and conclusions of the proceeding classes and seek to address the question: what constitutes a vibrant ecology; what contribution can and should government make to support that ecology; and why?
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What has driven the level of investment in physical assets? How has it been financed? What are the long-term implications for the vitality of cultural sector?
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The 501(c)(3) model is critically dependent upon a capital market that is philanthropic rather than commercial in character, highly circumscribed in its operation, and in which investment decisions are not informed by the ‘rational self-interest’ of neo-classical economics.
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Mapping the impact and the grounds for predicting how changes in the leisure market and in technology are going to affect further the composition and structure of cultural sector.
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Many trends in cultural creation and consumption have been and continue to be profoundly influenced by globalization. As we enter another chapter in the evolution of world economy, what trends are likely to dominate and how are they likely to affect cultural provision?
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The synergies between the commercial, the unincorporated and non-profit cultural sectors and the extent of movement of individuals and intellectual property between them.
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Cultural policy is premised on assumptions about causal relationships between expenditure, legislation, exhortation and other levers of power and influence and specific outcome.
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This class addresses the issue of the ultimate ‘ends’ or rationales of cultural policy, both instrumental and intrinsic.
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