Andrew Taylor on the Business of Arts & Culture
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Lingering on leisure
  Posted: July 5, 2007
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Here's a teaser from the report (available for download in PDF format):

Within these facts, trends, and insights, the conference participants narrowed their focus to the nonprofit and public "cultural industries" - a small but significant sector intended to foster, produce, present, and preserve the expressive and interpretive lives of human society. They defined an industry infrastructure often heavy on the "hardware" of cultural experience -- facilities, objects, technical production spaces -- but thin on the human and financial resources required to make full and adaptive use of that hardware. They expressed a general sense of growing disconnect between professional, established cultural organizations and the lives of their communities. And many wondered out loud whether our perceptions of decline in cultural participation were due to a flawed boundary to our analysis.

Read the rest at your leisure (if you have any).