Arts Research Quarterly
Spotlighting Secondary Data Analysis in the Arts
Issue 5, May 5, 2022
Arts Research Quarterly is a sampler of research articles on the arts ecosystem and on the arts’ value and impact for individuals and communities, based on data housed at NADAC and elsewhere. New issues are released quarterly. Arts Research Quarterly and NADAC are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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From this article: Arts and cultural engagement is a potential strategy for reducing or preventing reportedly antisocial or criminalized behaviors (those previously and problematically termed as “delinquent”) in adolescence. However, most research to date has focused on arts-based int…
This report explores the demographic characteristics of arts and culture workforces, both employed and unemployed, and its appendix provides contextual information about the Current Population Survey’s applications and limitations as related to the arts and culture sector. Additionally, this …
- Quick Study with Sunil Iyengar (Podcast) (2021) A consideration of recent studies about book-reading through print and digital media, and how patterns may have changed during the pandemic. February 17
- Kloppmann, Wolfram, Leroux, Lise, Bromblet, Philippe, Le Pogam, Pierre-Yves, Montech, Anne Thérèse, Guerrot, Catherine (2021) A Pan-European Art Trade in the Late Middle Ages: Isotopic Evidence on the Master of Rimini Enigma PLOS ONE April 12
- Needham, Andy, Wisher, Izzy, Langley, Andrew, Amy, Matthew, Little, Aimée (2021) Art by Firelight? Using Experimental and Digital Techniques to Explore Magdalenian Engraved Plaquette Use at Montastruc (France) PLOS ONE April 20
- Bone, Jessica K., Bu, Feifei, Fluharty, Meg E., Paul, Elise, Sonke, Jill K., Fancourt, Daisy (2021) Arts and Cultural Engagement, Reportedly Antisocial or Criminalized Behaviors, and Potential Mediators in Two Longitudinal Cohorts of Adolescents Journal of Youth and Adolescence March 23
- Bosello, Greta, Van Den Haak, Marcel (2021) #Arttothepeople? An Exploration of Instagram’s Unfulfilled Potential for Democratizing Museums Museum Management & Curatorship February 10
- Carney, James, Robertson, Cole (2021) Five Studies Evaluating the Impact on Mental Health and Mood of Recalling, Reading, and Discussing Fiction PLOS ONE April 8
- García Román, Joan, Gracia, Pablo (2021) Gender Differences in Time Use Across Age Groups: A Study of Ten Industrialized Countries, 2005–2015 PLOS ONE March 9
- Lindblom, Taru (2021) Growing Openness or Creeping Intolerance? Cultural Taste Orientations and Tolerant Social Attitudes in Finland, 2007–2018 Poetics April 7
- Kannan, Karthik, Dhungana, Govinda, Voss, Glenn B. (2021) Managing Supply and Demand for the Performing Arts in the Time of COVID SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 21-14 March 16 (last revised)
- Dynel, Marta, Ross, Andrew S. (2021) Metarecipient Parents’ #Bluey Tweets as a Distributed Fandom Affinity Space Poetics April 7
- Musgrave, George (2021) Music and Wellbeing vs. Musicians’ Wellbeing: Examining the Paradox of Music-Making Positively Impacting Wellbeing, but Musicians Suffering from Poor Mental Health Cultural Trends April
- Fonner, Daniel, Roscoe, Rebecca (2021) Pandemic Priorities: Exploring Unemployment and Demographic Characteristics of Arts and Culture Workforces and Artists Across the U.S. SMU DataArts March
- UNESCO (2021) Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity – Addressing Culture as a Global Public Good February 8
- Fonner, Daniel (2021) Studying Early Pandemic Data: Which Funding Sources Stepped Up for the Arts? March 24
- Otis College of Art and Design (2021) The Creative Economy: 2022 Otis College Report on the Creative Economy April
- Quick Study with Sunil Iyengar (Podcast) (2021) The Phenomenon of Social Prescribing of the Arts and its Growing Interest Among Arts/Health Researchers and Practitioners March 17
- National Endowment for the Arts (2021) The U.S. Arts Economy in 2020: A National Summary Report March
- Kloppmann, Wolfram, Leroux, Lise, Bromblet, Philippe, Le Pogam, Pierre-Yves, Montech, Anne Thérèse, Guerrot, Catherine (2021) A Pan-European Art Trade in the Late Middle Ages: Isotopic Evidence on the Master of Rimini Enigma PLOS ONE April 12
- Needham, Andy, Wisher, Izzy, Langley, Andrew, Amy, Matthew, Little, Aimée (2021) Art by Firelight? Using Experimental and Digital Techniques to Explore Magdalenian Engraved Plaquette Use at Montastruc (France) PLOS ONE April 20
- Bone, Jessica K., Bu, Feifei, Fluharty, Meg E., Paul, Elise, Sonke, Jill K., Fancourt, Daisy (2021) Arts and Cultural Engagement, Reportedly Antisocial or Criminalized Behaviors, and Potential Mediators in Two Longitudinal Cohorts of Adolescents Journal of Youth and Adolescence March 23
- Bosello, Greta, Van Den Haak, Marcel (2021) #Arttothepeople? An Exploration of Instagram’s Unfulfilled Potential for Democratizing Museums Museum Management & Curatorship February 10
- Carney, James, Robertson, Cole (2021) Five Studies Evaluating the Impact on Mental Health and Mood of Recalling, Reading, and Discussing Fiction PLOS ONE April 8
- García Román, Joan, Gracia, Pablo (2021) Gender Differences in Time Use Across Age Groups: A Study of Ten Industrialized Countries, 2005–2015 PLOS ONE March 9
- Lindblom, Taru (2021) Growing Openness or Creeping Intolerance? Cultural Taste Orientations and Tolerant Social Attitudes in Finland, 2007–2018 Poetics April 7
- Kannan, Karthik, Dhungana, Govinda, Voss, Glenn B. (2021) Managing Supply and Demand for the Performing Arts in the Time of COVID SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 21-14 March 16 (last revised)
- Dynel, Marta, Ross, Andrew S. (2021) Metarecipient Parents’ #Bluey Tweets as a Distributed Fandom Affinity Space Poetics April 7
- Musgrave, George (2021) Music and Wellbeing vs. Musicians’ Wellbeing: Examining the Paradox of Music-Making Positively Impacting Wellbeing, but Musicians Suffering from Poor Mental Health Cultural Trends April
- Fonner, Daniel, Roscoe, Rebecca (2021) Pandemic Priorities: Exploring Unemployment and Demographic Characteristics of Arts and Culture Workforces and Artists Across the U.S. SMU DataArts March
- UNESCO (2021) Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity – Addressing Culture as a Global Public Good February 8
- Fonner, Daniel (2021) Studying Early Pandemic Data: Which Funding Sources Stepped Up for the Arts? March 24
- Otis College of Art and Design (2021) The Creative Economy: 2022 Otis College Report on the Creative Economy April
- Quick Study with Sunil Iyengar (Podcast) (2021) A consideration of recent studies about book-reading through print and digital media, and how patterns may have changed during the pandemic. February 17
- Quick Study with Sunil Iyengar (Podcast) (2021) The Phenomenon of Social Prescribing of the Arts and its Growing Interest Among Arts/Health Researchers and Practitioners March 17
- National Endowment for the Arts (2021) The U.S. Arts Economy in 2020: A National Summary Report March