Art Index 2009
De Boekmanstichting wil het volgende rapport onder uw aandacht brengen. Americans for the Arts heeft een index ontworpen om de vitaliteit van de kunsten in U.S. te meten. Voor dit systeem zijn 76 indicatoren geselecteerd waarmee het onderzoek gedaan is. Het eerste, recent gepubliceerde, rapport beslaat een periode van 11 jaar, van 1998 - 2009. Ieder jaar wordt in oktober een nieuwe update van het rapport gepubliceerd. Hieronder enkele conclusies uit het eerste rapport :
1. The arts follow the business cycle. The arts respond to the booms and busts of the nation’s economy. Based on past patterns, we estimate that an arts rebound will begin in 2011.
2. Demand for the arts lags supply. Between 1998 and 2008, there was a steady increase in the number of artists, arts organizations, and arts-related employment. Nonprofit arts organizations alone grew in number from 73,000 to 104,000 during this span of time. That one out of three failed to achieve a balanced budget even during the strongest economic years of this decade suggests that sustaining this capacity is a growing challenge,
and these gains are at risk.
3. How the public participates in and consumes the arts is expanding. Tens of millions of people attend
concerts, plays, opera, and museum exhibitions, yet the percentage of the U.S. population attending these arts events is shrinking, and the decline is noticeable. On the increase, however, is the percentage of the American public personally creating art (e.g., music making, and drawing).
4. The competitiveness of the arts is slipping. The arts, in many ways, are not stacking up well against other uses of audience members’ time, donor and funder commitment, or spending when compared to non-arts sectors.
Inleiding tot het rapport (1pp)
Samenvatting van het rapport (21 pp)
Hele rapport (146 pp)