…”Brands fail because they fail to anticipate these shifts, and the job of our analysts, forecasters, planners and strategists is to make sure that failure isn’t an option, only a choice – your choice.The process is a simple one: we read the market via our LifeSigns Network, a group...
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How can we expand the financial capacity of arts and cultural organisations, for example by creating reserves and/or developing new financial instruments and once created and/or developed how do we manage and control them?Arts and cultural organisations in the UK and elsewhere tend to give a great deal of...
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The Own Art scheme is designed to make it easy and affordable for everyone to buy contemporary works of art and craft including paintings, photography, sculpture, glassware and furniture. You can borrow up to £2,000, or as little as £100, and pay back the loan in 10 monthly instalments...
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Liz O’sullivan sent the link to this speech by the Rector of the RCA and Chairman of the Arts Council of England. She had this to say about it,”this is a good article/speech delivered by Sir Christopher Frayling (Chairman Arts Council England and Rector of the Royal College of...
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The standard economic case for government support of the arts can be understood as one of correcting a beneficial externality. The traditional reasoning is that the arts, while directly enriching artists, arts firms, and arts consumers, also produce benefits that spill over onto the rest of us. The possible...
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If the creative economy is here to stay, it is also terribly incomplete. Like a turbocharged engine lacking a chassis to harness the horsepower it generates, ours is an economic system in search of the institutional and social arrangements that can unleash its full potential. The real challenge of...
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The latest annual demographics report by The League of American Theatres and Producers, The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2005-2006, for New York City, reveals that international visitor numbers for Broadway continue to rebound to pre-September 11 levels. Attendance by international visitors climbed to 1.32 million for 2005-2006, nearly...
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The creative economy movement started in the UK in 1994. Follow the links to understand how national cultural policy became creative industry policy and how it's now changing the world.