(This is it, folks – the final Createquity Rerun of the summer! A walk through short-term memory lane reveals a prolonged transition for the NEA, why we should care about the Edward Snowden revelations, and more drama in Detroit. Hope you enjoyed this roundup of some of our favorite posts from years past. If yourRead More

(The 2012 top arts policy stories list brings us a real-life participatory museum, a participatory effort to secure another museum’s future, and a look at what might have been had Obama lost the 2012 election. One thing that jumps out at me is how many of the top arts policy stories are really multi-year, continuingRead More

(Today’s top stories list brings us the mainstreaming of crowdfunding – an item that should have scored a lot higher than #8 in retrospect – along with the ultimately temporary axing of the Kansas Arts Commission and the woes of recession-aftermath orchestra union negotiations. Not to mention just about the most charming marriage of theRead More

(Today, our review of the top arts policy stories from the past half decade brings us the birth of “creative placemaking,” the Fine Arts Fund’s transformation, copycat arts funding models from across the pond, and more. As an exercise in trendspotting, this list from 2010 actually holds up pretty well, I think. The ramifications ofRead More

(With the last week of summer upon us – yes, it’s technically still summer – our season of reruns is about to come to a close. To finish out with a bang, we’re republishing our Top 10 Arts Policy Stories list from each of the past five years. Every December since 2009, we’ve attempted toRead More

(Holly Sidford’s “Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change” is perhaps the most talked-about arts research publication of the past five years, and Createquity’s take on it went against conventional wisdom in several important ways. This review by Talia Gibas is a great example of the nuance we try to capture when we’re considering what researchRead More

(This week, we’re celebrating the Createquity Arts Policy Library, our collection of in-depth investigations of specific research reports and other publications that have something of interest to say about the arts. Today’s entry highlights a lesser-known study published in 2006 that provides some of the best evidence we’ve amassed to date about the causal relationshipRead More

(If left on their own, are markets in the real world more likely to work or to fail? That’s the fundamental issue at hand in this week’s reruns, including this one which features a lengthy back and forth both in the post itself and in the comments. Though it’s a little on the abstract sideRead More