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
Cultural policy is premised on assumptions about causal relationships between expenditure, legislation, exhortation and other levers of power and infl...
The synergies between the commercial, the unincorporated and non-profit cultural sectors and the extent of movement of individuals and intellectual pr...
Many trends in cultural creation and consumption have been and continue to be profoundly influenced by globalization. As we enter another chapter in t...
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 ...
The 501(c)(3) model is critically dependent upon a capital market that is philanthropic rather than commercial in character, highly circumscribed in i...
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...
This session reviews briefly the arguments and conclusions of the proceeding classes and seek to address the question: what constitutes a vibrant ecol...