...Daniel Ashton; Ronda Gowland-Pryde; Silke Roth; Fraser Sturt Purpose Socioeconomic aims and impacts are an explicit part of the UK City of Culture (UKCoC) application, bidding, delivery and evaluation stages. This article engages with existing debates on evaluating cities of culture and introduces...

...Ian Fillis; Kim Lehman Purpose The authors provide an understanding of how the hero identity is culturally constructed and evolving. The authors focus on heroism within an arts marketing framework through an interrogation of Northern Ireland murals. In this paper, the authors elaborate...

...Professor Carsten Baumgarth and Dr Daragh O'Reilly; Carsten Baumgarth; Daragh O’Reilly Purpose – The purposes of this editorial are first, to review the background to, and development of, the Special Issue call for papers issued in March 2013 on the topic of “Brands in the Arts and Culture Sector...