Writing and Publishing
Generation W
Western marketing firms have made their business out of understanding generations that come in letters of the alphabet such as…
Say less, mean more
Earlier this month the Arts Council of Northern Ireland launched its Public Art Handbook for Northern Ireland but is it…
Beyond the seducer
Anne Bancroft’s death on June 6 permitted a suite of male Baby Boomer film critics to nostalgically trot out their…
Thinking Big: the conceptual background to strategy, marketing and planning
Arts Hub UK is pleased to bring you a contribution from one of this country's experts on audience development and…
Charitable Instincts
Increasingly, art and artists are being used as financial tools for charity groups and organizations. Charity art is any art…
da Vinci Code Decoded
Dan Brown didn't search for the Holy Grail. He wrote it. The da Vinci Code has sold around 20 million…
Art for the Market’s Sake?
Even the most idealistic and independent artists in the US must rely more and more on private sources of funding…
Florida defrocked
Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class was published in 2002. Since then, in between speaking engagements, he has written…
Art in China – the lotus is in bloom
That China will become the next world superpower has been the argument of economists for decades, and few now doubt…
An Ancient Prejudice: Women Artists and the Struggle for Equality
In 1989, New York feminist collective The Guerrilla Girls dared to ask the question, 'Do women have to be naked…