AEA occasionally issues Platform, an e-zine that aims to promote discussion and understanding of some of the critical and timely factors affecting cultural life.
Volume 5, Number 3 - February 2007
Museums, Galleries & Auction Houses: The New Art World Blur • Kids These Days: And Now for Another Argument About How Technology Has Changed Everything... Or Not • Can We afford The Audience • The War on Travel
Volume 5, Number 2 - October 2006
Critical Issues Facing the Arts In California • Coaching the Arts Quaterback • Second Life • Is the Grass Greener On the Other Side of the Ocean? Knowledge Transfer In Europe • Book Review: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More • Book Review: The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information • Creation Museum • Brooklyn Museum and MySpace
Volume 5, Number 1 - April 2006
Collections in the Balance • Intelligent Organizational
Design • Some Thoughts On Consumer Behavior • Book Review: The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, And the Circulation of Cultural Value • Conference Review: New Orleans: Rebuilding the Musical City • Worth Noting: What Should I Read Next • Worth Noting: Tech Soup
Volume 4, Number 3 - November 2005
Led By The Ear • We Are (Note Really) The World • Can Culture Save Downtown? • Misery Loves Company • Worth Noting: Pandora
Volume 4, Number 2 - June 2005
Is There a Better Case to be Made for the Arts? • Conference Review: Should We Junk Collections? • Download this Article • White Paper Review: Understanding the Future: Museums and 21st Century Life -The Value of Museums • Letter from Russell Willis Taylor, President and CEO, National Arts Strategies • Show Me the Money • Music Babes in Cyberspace • Consultancy Reports for Dummies
Volume 4, Number 1 - October 2004
China’s New Cultural Revolution • Are museum careers no longer affordable? • Academics’, Consultants’ and Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Cultural Sector • ‘Art? We can’t compete…’: Is this really the case?
Volume 3, Number 3 - January 2004
Creating Places: a one-day national conference exploring the role of artist studio and workspace provision in regeneration • Saving Art for the Nation: A Valid Approach to 21st Century Collecting? • Book Review: Who Own Native Culture? • Book Review: Italia S.p.A. - L'Assalto al Patrimonio Culturale • Book Review: On Being Non-profit. A Conceptual and Policy Primer
Volume 3, Number 2 - July 2003
Editorial: Valuing Culture • Conference Review: Arts & Minds, A Conference on Cultural Diplomacy amid Global Tensions • Conference Review: The Financing and Managing of Culture in the US and in France • Conference Partnerships • Some reflections on the future of public libraries in the United Kingdom • Book Review: Culture Incorporated. Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorships • Book Review: Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
Volume 3, Number 1 - April, 2003
Editorial • Conference Review: Protecting Natural and Cultural Heritage in the Western Hemisphere: Lessons from the Past; Looking to the Future • Conference Review: Boardsource Annual Convention
Volume 2, Number 3 - May 2002
Salary Deflation • Book Review: Who Owns Culture? Cultural Property and patrimony disputes in an age without borders • Building a Better Library • Book Review: Arts & Economics: Analysis and cultural
policy • Book Review: Faded Mosaic: The Emergence of Post- Cultural America
Volume 2, Number 2 - October 2001
Editorial: Post -9-1-1 • A case study in cultural diplomacy, The France Moves Dance Festival • Festival Mania – dramatic growth of a cultural typology • Reflections on the Venice Biennale • Book Review: Art for All? Their Policies and our Culture • Site Review: About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs
Volume 2, Number 1 - March 2001
Economics: The Dismal Science • Book Review: The Creative City: a toolkit for urban
innovators • Booke Review: e-topia: 'Urban Life, Jim - but not as we know it' • Book Review: Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America • Site Review: geofunders.org • CD ROM Review: is.C3 – an interactive simulator • Beginnings and Ending: Commissioned December 2000 - February 2001
Volume 1, Number 6 - December, 2000
Governance of National Museums • Conference Review: Social Theory, Politics and the Arts (STPA) • Conference Review: Museums in the New Millennium presented at Location One • Conference Review: The Social Responsibility of Museums Organised by the Institute of Ideas At the British Museum • Beginnings and Endings: Commissioned June – November
Volume 1, Number 5 - June, 2000
Between Culture and Commerce • Book Review: Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing – The Marketing of Culture • Short Reviews • Beginnings and Ending: Commissioned in April and May
Volume 1, Number 4 - April, 2000
Tax breaks for charitable giving in the UK • Book Review: The New Museum. Selected Writings of John Cotton Dana • Site Review: wkkf.org • Conference Review: The Long Run: Long-Term Developments in the Arts and Cultural Industries • Beginnings and Ending: Commissioned in February