Visual and performing arts materials, including manuscripts, musical scores, photographs, stage designs, costumes and audio visual recordings are crucial for preserving India’s cultural heritage but are highly vulnerable to physical decay technological obsolescence and loss of context. Effective library collection management in this field ensures the documentation, conservation and accessibility of these resources supporting research, education and creative practices. Institutions such as IGNCA, Sangeet Natak Akademi, NFAI Pune and NCPA Library, Mumbai implement preventive and remedial conservation, digitization, microfilming, and proper archival storage to safeguard rare and fragile materials. These initiatives not only preserve ephemeral art forms and tangible cultural artifacts but also promote wider access and inter-institutional collaboration.

Climate change is an existential reality for mankind and requires immediate attention and community action. Globally, various approaches are being adopted to influence policy and community awareness and behaviour. Art serves as a bridge, connecting scientific facts with human experiential understanding of nature, making the intricacies understood in simple yet impactful ways, and reducing the existing gaps. The intersection of climate change action and use of the visual and performing arts represents an attractive area that synergizes artistic expression with environmental activism. This paper reviews and explores the various forms of these arts serving as powerful channels to involve, connect, and inspire zeal among communities on climate change action. These art forms have been part of every human culture since time immemorial and generate diverse perspectives and emotional responses with great potential for desired social change. Further, visual and performing arts have played a critical role in breaking down social and cultural barriers among masses to desired behavioural change by addressing pertinent socio-cultural politics. By sustainably using these art forms and chronicles, the social change agents by involving proficient artists can contribute to long-term community enrichment and societal transformation towards climate action. The rich potential of visual and performing arts to not only satiate human minds abstracts but also raise awareness and mobilize communities, influence policy, and ultimately drive meaningful climate activism and social transformation for a climate-smart and sustainable world.

This paper explores the various pricing strategies for performing arts. The traditional pricing strategies focus more on tangible goods that differ from services in many respects. Even in the service category, performing arts have a unique place. The reasons for this uniqueness are explained in this paper. Innovative pricing methods are extensively used in modern times. The study compares traditional, dynamic, and innovative pricing strategies for performing arts. The study suggests that there is no single strategy for any performing art. It varies with time, quantity and quality of audience, place, duration of performance, degree of competition, brand image, etc.

This meta-analysis examines the psychological dimensions of visual and performing arts in movies released between 2010 and 2020. By synthesizing research on the cognitive, emotional, and social aspects of filmmaking and audience reception, this study explores the psychological principles that shape cinematic storytelling, performance, and viewer engagement. The findings provide insights into how movies serve as both a medium of artistic expression and a reflection of societal psychological dynamics, offering implications for filmmakers, psychologists, and cultural analysts.

This paper attempts to assess the strategic management worth of the macroeconomic forces on the economic performance of firms in the Indian visual and performing arts industry on the current economic circumstances. The research is the empirical test of the key macroeconomic variables including in this case, inflation rate, interest rate, GDP growth, exchange rate fluctuation, and government expenditure on arts so as to establish their contribution towards increased increment in revenue, profitability as well as financial sustainability of arts organizations. Through the secondary data sources which includes industry reports, government publications and the finance statements of the sampled firms and institutions the research will employ the use of statistical methods such as correlation and regression analysis in identifying the significant associations amongst the macroeconomic variables and the firm performances. The conclusions indicate that cost structure and financing availability would be significantly influenced by the inflation, fluctuating interest rates, whereas the demand and financial stability would be positively influenced by the GDP growth and government assistance. The study is also able to offer effective strategic results to the arts administrators and policymakers in a rapidly shifting economic framework so as to augment the strength, best economic planning, and reactive plans.