The art of crowdfunding arts and innovation: the cultural economic perspective (Presented by Christian Handke and Carolina Dalla Chiesa ). The Cultural Economics Online Seminar (CEOS) was initiated in 2021 as a means to provide a forum to bring members of the ACEI community together during the COVID-19 pandemic. CEOS aims to provide a forum…

Contemporary art worlds across the globe have witnessed a private museum boom in the first two decades of the 21st century. Unlike traditional public museums, these museums are founded, governed, and financed by private individuals. Indeed, their main purpose is usually to make the private art collections of their founders accessible to the public on…

Despite its ubiquity in arts and culture, crowdfunding has limitedly been instrumentalized in policy settings. Yet, with joint contributions by friends, fans, governments, and quasi-public institutions, match-funding of arts and culture through crowdfunding platforms may have benefits: increased revenues for makers and cultural fields, transparency in funding allocation, and stronger community engagement. Drawing upon interviews…

Which novelties do donation- and reward-based crowdfunding bring to philanthropy? Scholars interested in crowdfunding contributed to developing empirical explanations on which features impact online giving. However, the focus on theory building is limited. We developed a theoretical framework by categorizing the empirical findings reported in 198 studies, which resulted in four crowdfunding features impacting giving:…

This thesis explores the discourse around the present day woman art patron in the Netherlands. With patronage becoming increasingly important for the art and culture sector and the lack of research regarding present day women patrons in the Netherlands, a discourse analysis was performed. Incorporating the results from the discourse analysis performed on the case…

This research aims to find out which values are realized in the relationship between donor and cultural organisation and to contribute to the knowledge on patronage relationships, and to value based cultural economics. The value based economics framework by Klamer will be used to research the following research question: what are the values that are…

Crowdfunding is known as a funding solution for creative projects. Creators and business ventures consider crowdfunding as an outlet for promoting creative projects and raising funds. The literature and the media coverage overemphasized its benefits without taking into account key limitations for specific sectors. Based on exploratory, qualitative data gathering, this article investigates what artists…

This paper explores how an article by Marita Mathijsen on literary subsidies in the nineteenth century (1996, Nederlandse letterkunde) has served as a prelude to later research on post-romantic private literary patronage in The Netherlands on the one hand, and Dutch government policy on the other. It provides an overview of research carried out by Dutch…

Heeft u de kunsten met een donatie de coronacrisis doorgeholpen? Die vraag legde het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds zomer 2020 aan de Nederlandse bevolking voor (Jongsma et al. 2020). De uitkomst was ontnuchterend: slechts 10 procent van de Nederlanders zei de kunsten extra te hebben gesteund, hoewel ruim 90 procent aangaf cultuurbezoeker te zijn. Driekwart vond…

De cultuursector in Nederland werft steeds meer inkomsten uit particuliere bronnen en is steeds ondernemender, maar blijft sterk afhankelijk van overheidssubsidie. Dit blijkt uit een onderzoek van het Centrum voor Filantropische Studies van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam naar veranderingen in het geefgedrag en de inkomsten van culturele instellingen die geregistreerd zijn bij de belastingdienst als…