REPORT
Despite a range of legislative and policy interventions, the trade in illicit art and antiquities continues to flourish, resulting in damage to the arts, scholarship, and heritage. RAND Europe explored new ways of curtailing the illegal trade in cultural property.
NEWS RELEASE
Community-Based Drug Treatment Programs Can Help Youths Curb Drug Use, Improve Mental Health.
REPORT
Many analysts have examined the media that violent extremists use to communicate their core messages. Far less research, however, has been devoted to the growing body of creative works produced by Arab authors and artists that counter the intellectual and ideological underpinnings of violent extremism.
REPORT
Over the past several years, RAND has been building a research capability in the arts to provide useful data and analysis to policymakers, arts practitioners, and the academic community. This downloadable brochure features several of these titles, with links to each of the publications on the RAND web site.
REPORT
State arts agencies — key players within the U.S. system of public support for the arts — face a wide varitey of challenges to their typical roles as grantmakers. The author concludes that future state arts policy is likely to focus more on efforts to develop the creative economy and to grow the audience for the arts.
RESEARCH BRIEF
This research brief summarizes a study about what it means to cultivate demand for the arts, why it is important to do so, the role of arts learning in this effort, and arts and education policy changes needed to build future arts audiences.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) Council is the lead strategic agency for museums, libraries and archives in England. It is part of the wider MLA Partnership, working with nine regional agencies. With the aim to develop an inclusive strategy for all 10 MLA Partnership members, the responsible team of officers asked RAND Europe to examine the research commissioned by the 10 organisations in recent years.
REPORT
Despite record museum attendance, booming commercial popularity, soaring prices for artists' work and well-publicized museum expansions, the relationship between visual artists, institutions and patrons faces significant challenges.
NEWS RELEASE
RAND Study Finds Visual Arts Picture Isn't as Rosy as It First Appears
REPORT
Surveys indicate that 72 percent of U.S. museum artworks reside in storage facilities. Experts argue that keeping many of these works in storage is not advancing the museums' missions and, additionally, that maintaining artworks in storage is costly....
REPORT
This report presents an introduction to the best of the growing body of literature on participation-building.
PEOPLE
Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in economics, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in economics, Wellesley College
PEOPLE
Adjunct Staff
Ph.D. in sociology, University of Wisconsin; B.A. in government, Wesleyan University
PEOPLE
Senior Communications Analyst
Ph.D. in English, University of Washington
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