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July 7, 2020
DOES MUSIC SOOTHE THE SOUL?
By Jonathan Daniel Gómez‐Zapata, Luis César Herrero‐Prieto, and Beatriz Rodríguez‐Prado Music is linked to human senses and emotions and is one of the most...
June 23, 2020
THE USE OF IRONIC HUMOR IN FESTIVAL BRANDING
By Kati Suomi and Mervi Luonila Ironic humor can be a powerful technique for attracting attention in the field of arts. It can be...
June 9, 2020
EFFECTS OF COVID-19 IN BRAZILIAN CULTURAL ECONOMICS
By Ana Flávia Machado, Débora Freire, Rodrigo Cavalcante Michel, Gabriel Vaz de Melo, and Alice Demattos Guimarães The Covid-19 global pandemic has drastically changed...
June 2, 2020
POLICING ART CRIME
By Naomi Oosterman In the cold winter’s night of 9 to 10 January 2005, criminals left a devastating scene at the Westfries Museum in...
May 12, 2020
TEACHING CULTURAL ECONOMICS
By Trine Bille, Anna Mignosa and Ruth Towse Is busking a source of income? What is the role of copyright for creators and performers?...
April 29, 2020
FRENCH MUSEUMS AND CROWDFUNDING : EVOLUTIONS AND OUTCOMES
By Marie Ballarini In France, museums are mainly public and almost all depend on state subsidies (private museums included). Faced with the stagnation of...
April 14, 2020
UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS AND INSTITUTIONAL WORK PRACTICES IN FESTIVALS: LUCCA COMICS AND GAMES
By Yesim Tonga Uriarte, Robert DeFillippi, Massimo Riccaboni, Maria Luisa Catoni How are festivals managed within their wide net of temporal, social and institutional...
March 31, 2020
LEVERAGING ANALYTICS TO PRODUCE COMPELLING AND PROFITABLE FILM CONTENT
By Ronny Behrens, Natasha Zhang Foutz, Michael Franklin, Jannis Funk, Fernanda Gutierrez-Navratil, Julian Hofmann and Ulrike Leibfried In light of the rising availability of...
March 17, 2020
THE “PARSIMONIOUS” CONDUCTOR? HOW ORCHESTRAS’ DISCIPLINE PREVENTS CONDUCTORS TO OVER-LEAD
By Emmanuel Coblence, Cyrille Sardais and Josée Lortie What do orchestra conductors actually do? How can arts leadership articulate both “discipline” and “creativity”? Through...
March 16, 2020
ACEI 2020 MOVED TO 2021
The organisers of the 21st International Conference on Cultural Economics #ACEI2020 regretfully have to postpone the meeting in 2020 due to COVID-19. It is...
March 3, 2020
A VALUE-BASED APPROACH APPLIED TO PUBLIC BROADCASTERS
By Pawan V. Bhansing and Arjo Klamer Public broadcasters are in heavy weather because of changes in the media landscape. It is precisely these...
February 18, 2020
ICCA 2020: CULTURAL POLICY, WHAT’S NEW?
By The Editorial Board The international symposium organised by LabEx ICCA on the topic of “Cultural Policies. What’s new?” took place 30 – 31...
February 4, 2020
SIEC 2019: THE HAPPY FEW, ALBEIT FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY
By Luis César Herrero-Prieto Those of us who practise and study in the field of cultural economics often find ourselves being called ‘the happy...
January 21, 2020
THE ROLE OF ART INVESTMENT AS A HEDGE OR SAFE HAVEN
By Belma Öztürkkal and Asli Togan-Egrican Can art can be considered a safe haven during volatile times or a hedging option in general? we...
January 7, 2020
CULTURAL FESTIVALS: STATE OF THE ART AND NEW AVENUES OF RESEARCH
By Elisa Salvador Cultural Festivals are one of the most diffused examples of living production in all the fields of cultural and creative industries,...
December 31, 2019
EconomistsTalkArt.org wishes you happy holidays and a great new year 2020!
By The Editorial Team The Editorial Team of EconomistsTalkArt.org wishes you a happy start into the New Year! The blog started as an idea...

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