Policy versus Philanthropy: Between Public and Private Funding of the Arts

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse the relations between arts and business in the international context. It centres on two topics: firstly, the impact of the public arts funding systems on private support and, secondly, the current transitions in the relationship between arts and business that lead to the development of new forms of cooperation. The first part of the article compares systems of arts funding in different countries, mostly in Europe and the USA. The second part focuses on the definition of ‘partnership’, that is, the new paradigm in arts and business relations and describes its manifestations in real life.

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“…22 According to Campa et al (2019), -The intersection between the arts and business is an interesting domain of study, considering the non-rational nature of the arts and the rationality that is often associated with business …The traditional principle of ‗art for art's sake' assumes that arts institutions and artists should not be overly dependent on business if they are to be viewed as legitimate‖. Similarly, for Lewandowska (2018), -[corporate philanthropy] programs based on development through the arts should be subjected to detailed and systematic review, and their methodscritically analyzed, so as not to become unsubstantiated promises or glamorous dummy, using arts in an instrumental or cynical way‖.…”