The Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy offers international perspectives on a wide range of issues in cultural management and cultural policy research and practice. The social situatedness of art and the interplay between artists, non-artists, institutions, and policy makers have changed in the past decades. Democracies are at risk and the geopolitical world order has changed. The global climate emergency and the rise of autocratic governments are just two forces posing new contexts and threatening possibilities for socially engaged art. At the same time, artists and curators are suspected of belonging to a new professional managerial class that entangles them in a neoliberal economic system. Can socially engaged art catalyze progressive civic consciousness? Can art address big questions of social justice? This issue provides some answers to these questions.
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Melissa Rachleff has been a clinical professor in the Visual Arts Administration Program at New York University: Steinhardt School since 2009. She studied design and art at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA and completed her master’s at New York University. In addition to teaching art management, Rachleff is active as a writer and curator. Her research focus concentrates on under-recognized artists, alternative art systems, and contemporary art management.