This study proposes an alternative approach to the usual cognitive investigation of cultural venue and event attendance. This approach is based on stochastic preference theory. Specifically, the study utilises two well-known stochastic models of consumer behaviour: the NBD model and NBD-Dirichlet...

Education is the socioeconomic variable that has the greatest impact on cultural participation. A higher level of education leads to greater interest and taste for culture increasing the demand of culture. But education can also indirectly affect cultural consumption because the higher the level of ...

Attendances at arts events in the UK are well documented. In any one month about 5% of the population will go to see a play, opera or dance performance. About 4% will take part in amateur music or drama. These percentages have hardly changed throughout the 1980s. The article documents attendances...

In 2017, inspiration from the performing arts catalyzed the transition to more guest-centered gallery teaching at The Dayton Art Institute. To initiate this shift we hired three performing artists to lead training sessions for teaching in the galleries to illustrate that interactive strategies...

Purpose: Loneliness in older adulthood is a societal and public health challenge warranting identification of sustainable and community-based protective factors. This study investigated whether frequency of receptive arts engagement is associated with lower odds of loneliness in older adults....

The article investigates public governance of arts organisations in Sweden by examining the relationship between these public principals and arts organisations and by illustrating how this connection affects the strategic action of individual arts organisations. Two case studies provide the basis...

This issue contains 5 articles, 2 interviews, and 10 book reviews on Southern African theatre. The first two articles deal with Angolan theatre and reveal different kinds of theatre, mainstream and community-based, to anglophone readers unfamiliar with lusophone African theatre. The third article...

The paper explores the cultural consumption of teenagers, seen as consumers not yet independent from an economic point of view, but already independent in the choice and tastes. Our results apply to a sample of about 350 students living in the Cuneo province, in North-West of Italy, through a...

This article investigates the determinants of theatre, dance, and art museum attendance in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) using two analytical techniques. Multivariate probit and censored Poisson models are used to investigate the likelihood of attendance and the frequency of attendance,...

This compilation of national statistics on the not-for-profit and commercial arts fields in the USA presents the statistics in 9 chapters,, four of which are general and cross-disciplinary. Five chapters focus on specific or groups of arts disciplines. The included topics are: (1) arts in the...