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Cultural trusteeship is a subject that fascinates those who wonder about the relationship between power and culture. What compels the wealthy to serve on the boards of fine arts institutions? How do they exercise their influence as trustees, and how does this affect the way arts institutions operate? To find out, Francie Ostrower conducted candid personal interviews with 76 trustees drawn from two opera companies and two art museums in the United States.
Her new study demonstrates that members of elite arts boards walk a fine line between maintaining their status and serving the needs of the large-scale organizations they oversee. As class members whose status depends in part on the prestige of the boards on which they serve, trustees seek to perpetuate arts boards as exclusive elite enclaves. But in response to pressures to increase and diversify the audiences for arts institutions, elite board members act in a surprisingly open manner in terms of organizational accessibility and operations.
Written with clarity and grace, Trustees of Culture will contribute significantly to our understanding of organizational governance; the politics of fundraising; elite arts participation and philanthropy; as well as the consequences of wider social policies that continue to emphasize private financial support. Ostrower's study will prove to be indispensable reading for not just sociologists of culture, but anyone interested in how the arts are financially and institutionally supported.
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Francie Ostrower is a senior research associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, Washington, D.C. She is the author ofWhy the Wealthy Give: The Culture of Elite Philanthropy and coauthor of Race, Ethnicity, and Participation in the Arts.
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"With shrewd insights into the tensions between the social elites who serve as trustees and the professionals who administer these major cultural institutions, Ostrower has useful observations about the many challenges now facing the cultural sector: motivating donors, reconciling the conflicts between fund-raising and governance duties, recruiting more diverse boards, building new audiences, and sustaining artistic innovation and excellence." - James Allen Smith, former board president, Center for Arts and Culture
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