This report provides a nationwide snapshot of challenges to artistic free expression in America during 1992 and 1993. Together, the incidents offer a unique picture of the many issues confronting both artists and the viewing public. These pages also provide analysis and insight into the complex political, social and cultural forces creating pressure in communities across the nation to mute artistic expression. The hundreds of incidents documented here send three important warning signals: controversies over art are proliferating at the local level; the attacks come from across the...

This publication, the first in a series of issue papers as part of the Centers for Arts and Culture <EM>Art, Culture and the National Agenda</EM> project, provides an overview, historical analysis, and discourse on the legal implications of copyright law for the creative sector and cultural organizations.

This publication has been researched and produced by a group of people in the arts who want to provide basic advise on how to begin planning for the care of your art. We hope this publication will be useful to any artist working in any medium, who will leave behind a body of artistic work - choreographic or musical scores, paintings, sculptures, photographs, manuscripts, plays, theatre designs, films, videos, etc. Much of the information provided, however will apply equally to an interpretive artist - an actor, dancer or musician. And, it also applies to artists who are ill from causes...

In this article I describe in broad outline the nature of the transactions that define the arts sector and relationships between the for-profit and not-forprofit parts of it. I base the article on a component of a 2000 report to the Irvine Foundation, which itself was an outgrowth of the 1998 American Assembly entitled “Deals and Ideals: For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Arts Connections.”