Americans for the Arts

Social science research on the nonprofit sector has multiplied in recent years. Even economists, used to concentrating on the private for-profit sector, are beginning to recognize the importance of studying organizational alternatives to conventional business firms.

Shake Hands? Lilly Martin Spencer and the Politics of Art" connects the rise and fall of a female visual artist to the rise and fall of Jacksonian democracy.

Review by Sarah S. Montgomery of the book The Economics of Art Museums [Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, 1991, 346 p.]

Report to the Board of Directors and membership of Independent Sector.

Remarks presented at Golden Nail Award Banquet of Amarillo Chamber of Commerce at Amarillo, Texas, April 26, 1986. .....What is art? It's the picture and the way you hang it on the wall. It's the newspaper you read. It's Baryshnikov. The television program you view. The rug on your floor. It's Bob Bernhardt and the symphony. It's the billboard advertising you see on the highway. It's the design of your wedding ring and it's the quilt your grandmother gave your firstborn.

Purpose of the Committee was to review the structure of seat prices at present governing the sale of tickets for professional theatre, opera, ballet and concert performances in Great Britain and to make recommendations concerning seat pricing policies to be adopted by organisations [organizations] in receipt of Arts Council subsidy.

Published by the OECD. Building on recent international case studies, Culture and Local Development shows how public policies can foster culture as a lever for local economic development in terms of partnerships, tax relief, and other innovative instruments. The book also sets out the implications for national governments in the fields of education and intellectual property rights.

Presented in graphic form are some findings of the study, Performing arts: the economic dilemma; a study of problems common to theater, opera, music and dance, published in 1966, and the implications of these findings for the development of the arts.

Prepared by the Task Force on Organizational and Financial Relationships with Government, Sam Goddard, chairperson. Recommended by the Task Force, 1-Dec-1981, approved by the membership of Independent Sector, 11-May-1983.

Prepared as a study for the Independent Sector. On August 13, 1981 President Reagan signed into law the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, one of the central pillars of the economic program he had unveiled six months earlier. The purpose of this report is to assess the probable impact of this new tax law on individual charitable giving over the next several years.

Portfolio managers constantly search for bargains. They are frustrated, however, by efficient financial markets which make bargains unlikely in conventional financial assets. But efficient markets may not extend to the more distant corners of the investment universe. If so, bargains are still possible. The purpose of this paper is to argue that bargains may be found in various tangible assets, most notably art and antiques.

Part I of this work describes the centralization and decline of the commercial theatre since 1870. Both these processes, I believe, were irreversible by 1931, and the basic situation of the commercial theatre seems to have changed little since then.

Papers from the First International Conference on Arts and Economics, sponsored by the Association for Cultural Economics, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 8-10, 1979.

Paper presented by Harry Hillman-Chartrand, research director, Canada Council, to the Forum on Montreal Cultural Initiatives, held at Institute of Donations and Public Affairs Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 25, 1987.

Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Cultural Economics and Planning, sponsored by the Association for Cultural Economics, held in Akron, Ohio, April 25-28, 1984.