This issue of The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society was drawn from discussions of the prospects for art, culture, and policy at the 26th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts (STP&A). Co-sponsored by Americans for the Arts and the Center for Art and Culture, the symposium took place in Washington, D.C. from October 12th to 15th, 2000. Included is a collection of papers, remarks, and reports reflecting some of the positions expressed by policymakers, practitioners, and scholars concerning these issues.

The writer examines issues which are at the core of the activity of public art professionals, but the implications of which can be set aside in the day-to-day administration of public art.

Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, the author shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how social structures -- whether they be PTA, church, or political parties -- have disintegrated.

The National Governors Associations Center for Best Practices presents this Issue Brief which is the first of three that will explore and demonstrate effective policies and practices that best integrate economic development and the arts.

This issue of The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society is an edited version of the larger research project, Understanding the Associational Infrastructure of the Arts and Culture, completed at Ohio State Universitys Department of Arts Policy and Administration.

Case Study A is the first of the three case studies presented in this issue that demonstrate how national membership organizations play an active role across many stages of the policymaking process.

This issue of The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society which is an edited version of the larger research project, Understanding the Associational Infrastructure of the Arts and Culture, completed at Ohio Universitys Department of Arts Policy and Administration.

This introductory paper describes the associational infrastructure of arts and culture in American society.

Transcript of Frank Rich's lecture from the 14th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy.

A report on the New England Foundation for the Arts' (NEFA) program, Building Communities Through Culture (BCC) grew out of an effort to "art-making that draws inspiration from the community, nourishes the community, and develops connections within it."

America's Cultural Capital focuses on four structural recommendations that are intended to improve federal policy making in the arts and culture.