Arts Research Quarterly
Spotlighting Secondary Data Analysis in the Arts
Issue 8, Febuary 9, 2023
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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Featured Publications
Live and digital engagement with the visual arts
From this article: The cluster of innovations brought about by information and communication technology (ICT) is dramatically changing the ways in which the visual arts can be produced and consumed. By using the USA 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, we explore visual arts consumpti…
Reluctantly independent: motivations for self-employed artistic work
Feder, Tal, Woronkowicz, Janna (2022) Reluctantly independent: motivations for self-employed artistic work Journal of Cultural Economics
- Explore data related to this publication: Current Population Survey, February 1997: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 2408), Current Population Survey, February 1999: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 2898), Current Population Survey, February 2001: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 3302), Current Population Survey, February 2005: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 4311), and Current Population Survey, May 2017: Contingent Worker Supplement (ICPSR 37191)
From this article: Self-employment is much more frequent among artists and creative workers than other occupations. This has led to the emergence of the notion of the ‘artist-entrepreneur,’ which associates these workers with autonomy and independence and the ability to choose their own career pa…
- Iyengar, Sunil (2023) Classifying Songs and Societies to Promote Cultural Equity—Can It Be Done? Arts Journal/By Any Measure Blog
- McLafferty, Margaret, Brown, Natasha, Brady, John, McLaughlin, Jonathon, McHugh, Rachel, Ward, Caoimhe, McBride, Louise, Bjourson, Anthony J., O’Neill, Siobhan M., Walsh, Colum P., Murray, Elaine K. (2022) Variations in psychological disorders, suicidality, and help-seeking behaviour among college students from different academic disciplines PLoS ONE
- Ateca-Amestoy, Victoria, Castiglione, Concetta (2022) Live and digital engagement with the visual arts Journal of Cultural Economics
- Chen, Qinkai, El-Mennaoui, Mohamed, Fosset, Antoine, Rebei, Amine, Cao, Haoyang, Bouscasse, Philine, O’Beirne, Christy Eóin, Shevchenko, Sasha, Rosenbaum, Mathieu (2022) Towards mapping the contemporary art world with ArtLM: an art-specific NLP model arXiv 2212.07127
- MacNeill, Kate, Lye, Jenny, McQuilten, Grace, Badham, Marnie, Powell, Chloë (2022) The Incomes of Visual Artists: Which Artists, What Income? Australian Economic Review Volume 55, Issue 4 Pages 558-567
- Li, Ronghui, Zhao, Junfan, Zhang, Yachao, Su, Mingyang, Ren, Zeping, Zhang, Han, Li, Xiu (2022) Magic: Multi Art Genre Intelligent Choreography Dataset and Network for 3D Dance Generation arXiv 2212.03741
- National Endowment for the Arts (2022) Arts Data Profile: The 2020 Arts Basic Survey Arts Data Profile Series
- Iyengar, Sunil (2022) Feasting on Arts Participation Survey Data—But First, Some Appetizers National Endowment for the Arts
- Asker, Erdal, Brunner, Eric, Ross, Stephen (2022) The Impact of School Spending on Civic Engagement: Evidence from School Finance Reforms Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 30711
- Explore data related to this publication: National Education Longitudinal Study, 1988 (ICPSR 9389), Education Longitudinal Study (ELS), 2002: Base Year (ICPSR 4275), High School Longitudinal Study, 2009-2013 [United States] (ICPSR 36423), High School and Beyond, 1980: A Longitudinal Survey of Students in the United States (ICPSR 7896)
- Altamimi, Hala, Liu, Qiaozhen (2022) The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle: Does Overhead Spending Really Impact Program Outcomes? Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Volume 51, Issue 6 pp. 1324–1348
- Budzinski, Oliver, Pannicke, Julia (2022) Does popularity matter in a TV song competition? Evidence from a national music contest Creative Industries Journal
- Iyengar, Sunil (2022) Quick Study: Job Quality Measurement and the Arts Arts Journal/By Any Measure Blog
- Feder, Tal, Woronkowicz, Janna (2022) Reluctantly independent: motivations for self-employed artistic work Journal of Cultural Economics
- Explore data related to this publication: Current Population Survey, February 1997: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 2408), Current Population Survey, February 1999: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 2898), Current Population Survey, February 2001: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 3302), Current Population Survey, February 2005: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 4311), and Current Population Survey, May 2017: Contingent Worker Supplement (ICPSR 37191)
- Sauvé, Jean-Sébastien, Mongeon, Philippe, Larivière, Vincent (2022) From art to science: A bibliometric analysis of architectural scholarly production from 1980 to 2015 PLoS ONE
- Iyengar, Sunil (2022) Making Space for Indigenous Arts Practices in Government Data about the Arts National Endowment for the Arts
- Wood, Anna L. C., Kirby, Kathryn R., Ember, Carol R., Silbert, Stella, Passmore, Sam, Daikoku, Hideo, McBride, John, Paulay, Forrestine, Flory, Michael J., Szinger, John, D’Arcangelo, Gideon, Bradley, Karen Kohn, Guarino, Marco, Atayeva, Maisa, Rifkin, Jesse, Baron, Violet, Hajli, Miriam El, Szinger, Martin, Savage, Patrick E. (2022) The Global Jukebox: A public database of performing arts and culture PLoS ONE
- McKenzie, Jordi, Crosby, Paul, Shin, Sunny Y. (2022) Netflix chills and revamps its viewing metrics: Preliminary analysis and opportunities for research Poetics
- Freeman, Daniel Mackin, Shifrer, Dara (2022) Arts for Whose Sake? Arts Course-taking and Math Achievement in US High Schools Sociological Perspectives
- Gara, Taylor V., Farkas, George, Brouillette, Liane (2020) Did consequential accountability policies decrease the share of visual and performing arts education in U.S. public secondary schools during the No Child Left Behind era? Arts Education Policy Review Volume 123, 2022 – Issue 4 Pages 218-235
- McLafferty, Margaret, Brown, Natasha, Brady, John, McLaughlin, Jonathon, McHugh, Rachel, Ward, Caoimhe, McBride, Louise, Bjourson, Anthony J., O’Neill, Siobhan M., Walsh, Colum P., Murray, Elaine K. (2022) Variations in psychological disorders, suicidality, and help-seeking behaviour among college students from different academic disciplines PLoS ONE
- Ateca-Amestoy, Victoria, Castiglione, Concetta (2022) Live and digital engagement with the visual arts Journal of Cultural Economics
- Chen, Qinkai, El-Mennaoui, Mohamed, Fosset, Antoine, Rebei, Amine, Cao, Haoyang, Bouscasse, Philine, O’Beirne, Christy Eóin, Shevchenko, Sasha, Rosenbaum, Mathieu (2022) Towards mapping the contemporary art world with ArtLM: an art-specific NLP model arXiv 2212.07127
- MacNeill, Kate, Lye, Jenny, McQuilten, Grace, Badham, Marnie, Powell, Chloë (2022) The Incomes of Visual Artists: Which Artists, What Income? Australian Economic Review Volume 55, Issue 4 Pages 558-567
- Li, Ronghui, Zhao, Junfan, Zhang, Yachao, Su, Mingyang, Ren, Zeping, Zhang, Han, Li, Xiu (2022) Magic: Multi Art Genre Intelligent Choreography Dataset and Network for 3D Dance Generation arXiv 2212.03741
- Altamimi, Hala, Liu, Qiaozhen (2022) The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle: Does Overhead Spending Really Impact Program Outcomes? Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Volume 51, Issue 6 pp. 1324–1348
- Budzinski, Oliver, Pannicke, Julia (2022) Does popularity matter in a TV song competition? Evidence from a national music contest Creative Industries Journal
- Sauvé, Jean-Sébastien, Mongeon, Philippe, Larivière, Vincent (2022) From art to science: A bibliometric analysis of architectural scholarly production from 1980 to 2015 PLoS ONE
- Wood, Anna L. C., Kirby, Kathryn R., Ember, Carol R., Silbert, Stella, Passmore, Sam, Daikoku, Hideo, McBride, John, Paulay, Forrestine, Flory, Michael J., Szinger, John, D’Arcangelo, Gideon, Bradley, Karen Kohn, Guarino, Marco, Atayeva, Maisa, Rifkin, Jesse, Baron, Violet, Hajli, Miriam El, Szinger, Martin, Savage, Patrick E. (2022) The Global Jukebox: A public database of performing arts and culture PLoS ONE
- McKenzie, Jordi, Crosby, Paul, Shin, Sunny Y. (2022) Netflix chills and revamps its viewing metrics: Preliminary analysis and opportunities for research Poetics
- Freeman, Daniel Mackin, Shifrer, Dara (2022) Arts for Whose Sake? Arts Course-taking and Math Achievement in US High Schools Sociological Perspectives
- Gara, Taylor V., Farkas, George, Brouillette, Liane (2020) Did consequential accountability policies decrease the share of visual and performing arts education in U.S. public secondary schools during the No Child Left Behind era? Arts Education Policy Review Volume 123, 2022 – Issue 4 Pages 218-235
- Iyengar, Sunil (2023) Classifying Songs and Societies to Promote Cultural Equity—Can It Be Done? Arts Journal/By Any Measure Blog
- National Endowment for the Arts (2022) Arts Data Profile: The 2020 Arts Basic Survey Arts Data Profile Series
- Iyengar, Sunil (2022) Feasting on Arts Participation Survey Data—But First, Some Appetizers National Endowment for the Arts
- Iyengar, Sunil (2022) Quick Study: Job Quality Measurement and the Arts Arts Journal/By Any Measure Blog
- Iyengar, Sunil (2022) Making Space for Indigenous Arts Practices in Government Data about the Arts National Endowment for the Arts
- Asker, Erdal, Brunner, Eric, Ross, Stephen (2022) The Impact of School Spending on Civic Engagement: Evidence from School Finance Reforms Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 30711
- Explore data related to this publication: National Education Longitudinal Study, 1988 (ICPSR 9389), Education Longitudinal Study (ELS), 2002: Base Year (ICPSR 4275), High School Longitudinal Study, 2009-2013 [United States] (ICPSR 36423), High School and Beyond, 1980: A Longitudinal Survey of Students in the United States (ICPSR 7896)
- Feder, Tal, Woronkowicz, Janna (2022) Reluctantly independent: motivations for self-employed artistic work Journal of Cultural Economics
- Explore data related to this publication: Current Population Survey, February 1997: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 2408), Current Population Survey, February 1999: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 2898), Current Population Survey, February 2001: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 3302), Current Population Survey, February 2005: Contingent Work Supplement (ICPSR 4311), and Current Population Survey, May 2017: Contingent Worker Supplement (ICPSR 37191)