National Arts Support

Cultural policy research, as a raising discipline field, exists in many contexts, asks many different kinds of questions and adopts a wide repertoire of research methodologies from a raft of academic discourses. Starting with the American "Culture War", this paper investigates the questions and approaches being undertaken by those working in this the arts and cultural policy research and information system, and provides a discipline-based discussion of "State Support for the Arts", which is new topic in the Chinese art world. Drawing on several examples from the arts sector, I make any such effort to explain "Should the government subsidize the Arts?" with some public policy theoretical and cultural economics analyses. As a result of it, the attributes of arts will be reread and reevaluated beyond aesthetics. The paradigm for art inquiry has irrevocably shifted away from the conventions that grounded its founding theories, demanding refreshed understandings of art.The paper also provides some comparative guidelines for arts funding systems in different western countries. To achieve this, I especially chose for the American art museums; examine the structure and effectiveness of the support system for U.S. nonprofit arts institutions.