This paper documents the labour market position of artists across Europe and examines how it co-varies with public cultural spending. Using EU-LFS micro-data for 2009-2023, we compare artists to non-artists using harmonised measures of wage rank, employment, and non-standard work. Using...

This research addresses two key challenges in cultural tourism. First, youths aged 18-25 show limited interest in cultural tourism due to outdated presentation methods and cultural products. Second, there is insufficient understanding of how to create culturally authentic products for youths...

This conceptual paper investigates the role of art experts and appraisers in white-collar crime through the lens of convenience theory. As gatekeepers of authenticity, provenance, and valuation, art appraisers hold significant power in shaping market outcomes. Yet, the opacity of appraisal...

On 16 December 2024 the European Crisis Management Laboratory (ECML) launched the innovative Art{@ ×}ECML exhibition, showcasing how cutting-edge technologies can help preserve and interact with cultural heritage. It went on every working day at the ECML (JRC Ispra, Italy) between 16.00-17.00...

The paper explores the role of marketing stories in cultivating virtue ethics in consumers. Drawing from the philosophy and storytelling tradition of the Aristotelian tragedy along with Kierkegaard’s Either/Or and Castoriadis’ insights, it is illustrated that tragic stories can be a valuable...

Purpose The literature on the potential benefits of art investing has yet to consider the effects of categorizing world regional art markets (e.g. Latin American art) by artistic styles or movements (e.g. Latin American surrealism, Latin American conceptual art, etc.). We propose that such...

Technological change has repeatedly disrupted creative labor markets, raising concerns about whether new tools substitute for artists or shift the organization of creative work. This paper studies how occupational exposure to generative AI (genAI) maps into employment and earnings outcomes for...

This study investigates the factors driving innovation in museums by incorporating both technological and symbolic innovations. Unlike previous research, it employs a comprehensive set of determinants to examine their impact on technological and symbolic innovations. Based on data from 250...

The emergence of AI-generated artwork is challenging traditional notions of authorship, originality, and ownership. As a result, copyright norms worldwide are being reassessed. This study covers four major jurisdictions: the US, the European Union, the UK and China, through current theories and...

An in-depth look at how we make and circulate art today, and how creative and economic processes shape the meaning and value of artworks. In Ecologies of Artistic Practice, Ashley Lee Wong explores the economic relationships of artists working at the nexus of art and technology as they negotiate...

This study addresses a significant gap in the existing literature by conducting a comprehensive systematic review of the art market over the past 50 years, utilizing big data analysis and bibliometric methods. Through descriptive statistical analysis, we gained insights into research trends,...

Europe's cultural heritage bears testimony to centuries of contact. Not only were its defining features shaped by cultural transfer but artworks were also brought along as people moved across the continent. BELLUM & ARTES explores the traces left by the Thirty Years' War on the continent, on its...

Europe's cultural heritage bears testimony to centuries of contact. Not only were its defining features shaped by cultural transfer but artworks were also brought along as people moved across the continent. BELLUM & ARTES explores the traces left by the Thirty Years' War on the continent, on its...

Amidst Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the European Union has stood strong in solidarity, offering vital assistance to Ukraine's cultural and creative sectors. This publication highlights EU initiatives and collaborations that aid in mitigating the conflict's impact on culture. From...

Amidst Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the European Union has stood strong in solidarity, offering vital assistance to Ukraine's cultural and creative sectors. This publication highlights EU initiatives and collaborations that aid in mitigating the conflict's impact on culture. From...

In this project, we analyze whether the arts can mitigate negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on mental health and wellbeing, ease the burden of closed day-care and school facilities on families, and preserve attitudes of solidarity and trust. Using the SOEP-CoV questionnaire, we...

This article contextualises the transition to an open access publishing future and sets it against the background of the current state of decline in arts and humanities research funding in the US and UK. It outlines the problems which have stymied and slowed the move towards open research and it...

The "economic" naturally meets the "cultural" because both spheres deal, differently albeit convergingly, with "values" and "valuations". Materially crafted and spiritually charged, tactile/tangible and ineffable/intangible, privately owned and collectively enjoyed, nourished currently and...