A US study find that foundation contributions decrease as organizations’ audiences and web viewerships grow.
Capsule Review: Critical Thinking
How much of students’ critical thinking is impacted by a museum field trip – and how much stems from the arts-based nature of the experience?
The State: A Friend Indeed to Artists in Need?
Internationally, governments can play an important role creating occupational equity for the arts – but there’s a catch.
Who Can Afford to Be A Starving Artist?
The key to success might be risk tolerance, not talent.
The BFA’s Dance With Inequality
Most arts majors come from money. Most artists didn’t major in the arts. What does that say about the sector?
Who Will Be the Next Arts Revolutionary?
The story of how the nonprofit arts sector got started offers would-be changemakers some clues.
Notes to “Who Will Be the Next Arts Revolutionary?”
The following endnotes accompany our feature article, “Who Will Be the Next Arts Revolutionary?” published on March 7, 2016: Graphic: The Boom in U.S. Nonprofits / The U.S. Arts Nonprofit Growth Spurt Reliable longitudinal data on the size of the nonprofit arts sector is difficult to come by for this period. In his 1984Read More
Part of Your World: On the Arts and Wellbeing
A concept that’s been making the rounds in other fields for decades provides fresh ideas about how to think about the benefits of the arts.
Notes to “Part of Your World”
The following end notes accompany our article, “Part of Your World: On the Arts and Wellbeing,” published on August 31, 2015: [1] For his part, Sen has written a stirring defense of incorporating cultural considerations into international development policy, although his essay does not dwell on explicit connections to the capability approach. [2] Createquity isRead More
Research Progress Report: What’s Up with Self-Actualization?
While the term continues to be bandied about with some regularity, there does not appear to be one agreed-upon definition of self-actualization and there is a lack of empirical support for Maslow’s hierarchy.