Results of surveys of careers and opinions of senior administrators of U.S. art museums, symphony orchestras, resident theaters, and local arts agencies conducted and analyzed by Paul DiMaggio, Yale University.

This report summarizes a June 2014 symposium held at the Gallup Headquarters in Washington, DC, in partnership with the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council. Cultural researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from the U.S., the UK, and other countries met to review common assumptions, techniques, and challenges in measuring cultural engagement. The report offers expert guidance on how those measurements can refined and made more relevant to different stakeholder groups.

A comparison of total revenues for museums and arts galleries based on the Economic Censuses of 1992, 1987, 1982, and 1977. Estimates are also provided by region.

A thumbnail history of the first 35 years of the federal government’s support for the arts and the achievements of the NEA since its inception. NEA 2000.

This paper accompanying release of the ACPSA preliminary estimates for 1998-2011 consists of two parts: one explains the background and inner working of the account — including an explanation of methods used and international sources consulted — and the other advances a new framework for understanding the arts/cultural labor force with comparable rigor, as well as how to estimate arts volunteers’ contributions to the U.S. economy.