Entirely New Ways Are Needed To Promote The Arts
Andras Szanto

The writer is a researcher and consultant on the arts. He is the former director of the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, and currently, a visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Arts and Culture in Washington, DC, and a Research Affiliate of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University.

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The Rand Corporation's three challenges for survival
By Adrian Ellis

The author writes regularly for The Art Newspaper and is a director of AEA Consulting ( www.aeaconsulting.com ) Details of A portrait of the visual arts: meeting the challenges of a new era by Elizabeth H. Ondaatje et al. Can be found at
www.rand.org/pub/.monographs/2005/RAND_MG290.pdf

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etrics of Success in Art Museums
by Maxwell L. Anderson, research affiliate,

merica 's largest art museums are the primary tourist attractions in many cities. In 2002 they drew over one-third of America 's adult population-more people than attended sporting events. Museums care for billions of dollars of artworks, stage ambitious exhibitions that can define the season of even a major metropolis, and help anchor a community's pride of place. The Boards of major art museums tend to be composed of each community's wealthiest and most powerful leaders. "Signature" museum architecture is sought by city planners and promoters as ardently as sports stadia, and in many other ways, art museums are perceived to be indispensable amenities in any given urban or regional setting.

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Art Historian Selma Holo examines the activism of the artists and museums of Oaxaca
By Katherine Yungmee Kim
March 2005

The state of Oaxaca always had an identity separate from the rest of Mexico's. Even though it was considered the heart of mexicanidad -"Mexicanness"-Oaxaca and its strong cultural life of museums, cultural centers, archaeological sites and artisanry thrived no matter what political forces were shaping the nation, says USC College art history professor Selma Holo.

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El Smithsoniano publica libro sobre infraestructura que opera en la entidad
Fernando Gálvez

OAXACA. El primer esfuerzo por hablar de la infraestructura museística del estado de Oaxaca en sus diversas modalidades se publica ahora bajo el sello del Smithsonian, quizá la institución museística más poderosa de Estados Unidos.

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