Trustees Of Culture

Author : Francie Ostrower
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226778860

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Trustees of Culture by Francie Ostrower Pdf

Cultural trusteeship is a subject that fascinates those who wonder about the relationship between power and culture. What compels the wealthy to serve on the boards of fine arts institutions? How do they exercise their influence as trustees, and how does this affect the way arts institutions operate? To find out, Francie Ostrower conducted candid personal interviews with 76 trustees drawn from two opera companies and two art museums in the United States. Her new study demonstrates that members of elite arts boards walk a fine line between maintaining their status and serving the needs of the large-scale organizations they oversee. As class members whose status depends in part on the prestige of the boards on which they serve, trustees seek to perpetuate arts boards as exclusive elite enclaves. But in response to pressures to increase and diversify the audiences for arts institutions, elite board members act in a surprisingly open manner in terms of organizational accessibility and operations. Written with clarity and grace, Trustees of Culture will contribute significantly to our understanding of organizational governance; the politics of fundraising; elite arts participation and philanthropy; as well as the consequences of wider social policies that continue to emphasize private financial support. Ostrower's study will prove to be indispensable reading for not just sociologists of culture, but anyone interested in how the arts are financially and institutionally supported.

Author : Eduard Lindeman
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412841224

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Wealth and Culture by Eduard Lindeman Pdf

Author : Richard Chait,Thomas P. Holland,Barbara E. Taylor
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 0897748069

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The Effective Board of Trustees by Richard Chait,Thomas P. Holland,Barbara E. Taylor Pdf

This book shares the practical and tested experiences of board members and college presidents. Various dimensions of board performance are covered, from the ability to discern the culture and norms of the organization to the importance of being well informed about the roles, responsibilities, and performance of board members. The authors describe how a board can develop and maintain healthy relationships with key constituencies and how it shapes institutional direction.

Author : Laura Raicovich
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781839760525

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Culture Strike by Laura Raicovich Pdf

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders to resign at the Whitney. That is to say nothing of demonstrations against exhibitions and artworks. Protests have roiled institutions across the world, from the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim to the Akron Art Museum. A popular expectation has grown that galleries and museums should work for social change. As Director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York muni- cipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that doubled as political protests. Then in January 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials. This public controversy followed the museum’s responses to Donald Trump’s election, including her objections to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring Vice President Mike Pence. In this lucid and accessible book, Raicovich examines some of the key museum flashpoints and provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding conservative, capitalist values. And she suggests ways museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.

Author : Masaki Yuki,Marilynn Brewer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199985470

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Culture and Group Processes by Masaki Yuki,Marilynn Brewer Pdf

Patterns of group behavior and underlying psychological processes are shaped within specific cultural contexts, and cultures emerge in group-based interactions. Culture and Group Processes, the inaugural volume of the Frontiers of Culture and Psychology series, is the first edited book on this rapidly emerging topic.

Author : Terrence Murphy,Gerald John Stortz
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0773509542

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Creed and Culture by Terrence Murphy,Gerald John Stortz Pdf

Ten scholars illuminate the experience of Catholics in light of ethnicity, gender, class, and other social categories. They discuss institutional history, church-state relations, popular piety, and interactions with protestants, French Catholics, immigrants, and ecclesiastical authorities abroad. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000282481

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Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill Pdf

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture. This work explores such questions as: How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view? How do museums produce values? How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museums? This stimulating book provokes debate and discussion on these topics and puts forward the idea of a new museum - the post-museum, which will challenge the familiar modernist museum. A must for students and professionals in the field.

Author : Jeffery V. Bailey,Thomas M. Richards
Publisher : CFA Institute Research Foundation
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781944960308

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A Primer For Investment Trustees: Understanding Investment Committee Responsibilities by Jeffery V. Bailey,Thomas M. Richards Pdf

This "primer," written as if addressed to a new investment trustee for a university, is a comprehensive discussion of investment issues relevant not only to investment trustees but also to investment professionals who work with trustees. Taking an individual step by step through the process of responsible trusteeship, it offers a solid introduction to basic investment principles.

Author : Peter Decherney
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231508513

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Hollywood and the Culture Elite by Peter Decherney Pdf

As Americans flocked to the movies during the first part of the twentieth century, the guardians of culture grew worried about their diminishing influence on American art, education, and American identity itself. Meanwhile, Hollywood studio heads were eager to stabilize their industry, solidify their place in mainstream society, and expand their new but tenuous hold on American popular culture. Peter Decherney explores how these needs coalesced and led to the development of a symbiotic relationship between the film industry and America's stewards of high culture. Formed during Hollywood's Golden Age (1915-1960), this unlikely partnership ultimately insured prominent places in American culture for both the movie industry and elite cultural institutions. It redefined Hollywood as an ideal American industry; it made movies an art form instead of simply entertainment for the masses; and it made moviegoing a vital civic institution. For their part, museums and universities used films to maintain their position as quintessential American institutions. As the book delves into the ties between Hollywood bigwigs and various cultural leaders, an intriguing cast of characters emerges, including the poet Vachel Lindsay, film producers Adolph Zukor and Joseph Kennedy, Hollywood flak and censor extraordinaire Will Hays, and philanthropist turned politician Nelson Rockefeller. Decherney considers how Columbia University's film studies program helped integrate Jewish students into American culture while also professionalizing screenwriting. He examines MoMA's career-savvy film curator Iris Barry, a British feminist once dedicated to stemming the tide of U.S. cultural imperialism, who ultimately worked with Hollywood and the U.S. government to fight fascism and communism and promote American values abroad. Other chapters explore Vachel Lindsay's progressive vision of movies as reinvigorating the public sphere through film libraries and museums; the promotion of movie connoisseurship at Harvard and other universities; and how the heir of a railroad magnate bankrolled the American avant-garde film movement. Amid ethnic diversity, the rise of mass entertainment, world war, and the global spread of American culture, Hollywood and cultural institutions worked together to insure their own survival and profitability and to provide a coherent, though shifting, American identity.

Author : Karen M. Barbera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199860722

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The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture by Karen M. Barbera Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture presents the breadth of topics from Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior through the lenses of organizational climate and culture. The Handbook reveals in great detail how in both research and practice climate and culture reciprocally influence each other. The details reveal the many practices that organizations use to acquire, develop, manage, motivate, lead, and treat employees both at home and in the multinational settings that characterize contemporary organizations. Chapter authors are both expert in their fields of research and also represent current climate and culture practice in five national and international companies (3M, McDonald's, the Mayo Clinic, PepsiCo and Tata). In addition, new approaches to the collection and analysis of climate and culture data are presented as well as new thinking about organizational change from an integrated climate and culture paradigm. No other compendium integrates climate and culture thinking like this Handbook does and no other compendium presents both an up-to-date review of the theory and research on the many facets of climate and culture as well as contemporary practice. The Handbook takes a climate and culture vantage point on micro approaches to human issues at work (recruitment and hiring, training and performance management, motivation and fairness) as well as organizational processes (teams, leadership, careers, communication), and it also explicates the fact that these are lodged within firms that function in larger national and international contexts.

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Finance
ISBN : OSU:32435063602296

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An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States. 1791- by United States. Department of the Treasury Pdf

Author : University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) Board of Trustees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : CORNELL:31924096358548

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Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) Board of Trustees Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : NYPL:33433076011000

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Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University by Anonim Pdf

Author : Keith E. Yandell Keith E. Yandell,John J. Paul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136818011

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Religion and Public Culture by Keith E. Yandell Keith E. Yandell,John J. Paul Pdf

The last two centuries have witnessed profound changes in the nature of public consciousness. Nowhere has this been more true than in India, especially in relation to changing cultures of public life and religious tradition in South India. Essays in this collection attempt to explore the intricacies of what is perhaps the single most complex socio-religious environment in the world. The essays consider the evolution of the notion of Hinduism as a distinct and singular separate religion; the relationship between this kind of formulation and various European or western influences in India; and differences which the formation of this idea and its acceptance have made upon wider public consciousness. Each essay also considers certain general issues - such as the passing along of religious authority from one generation to the next, and the rise of disputes over matters both ideological (or doctrinal) and institutional, disputes that are fundamental to the traditions concerned and yet have unmistakable cross-cultural references.

Author : Paul Sweeting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781139501743

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Financial Enterprise Risk Management by Paul Sweeting Pdf

Financial Enterprise Risk Management provides all the tools needed to build and maintain a comprehensive ERM framework. As well as outlining the construction of such frameworks, it discusses the internal and external contexts within which risk management must be carried out. It also covers a range of qualitative and quantitative techniques that can be used to identify, model and measure risks, and describes a range of risk mitigation strategies. Over 100 diagrams are used to help describe the range of approaches available, and risk management issues are further highlighted by various case studies. A number of proprietary, advisory and mandatory risk management frameworks are also discussed, including Solvency II, Basel III and ISO 31000:2009. This book is an excellent resource for actuarial students studying for examinations, for risk management practitioners and for any academic looking for an up-to-date reference to current techniques.