The Department of Arts and Culture Management has adopted the principle of raising art managers who can understand the cultural value of artwork, with the knowledge and sensitivity to protect art from speculative market/money relations. An art manager should be able to give the real value of art in intellectual and economic terms. Just like in the story of Oscar Wilde…

In one of Europe's most famous art centers, a child sees a very nice painting in a window display. The price of the painting is quite high. The child wants to buy this painting for his mother's upcoming birthday. He goes to the store with all the money he has barely saved up from his job. He is lucky as the painting has not been sold yet. He walks in, looks at the painting for a while, then he finds the artist who made the painting and says, “I want to buy this painting for my mother's birthday. But this is all the money I have.” After thinking for a while, the painter sells the painting to the child. The child thanks the painter and takes the package. Friends of the painter who happen to be in the store ask him with surprise: “What have you done? That picture would have cost millions. Why did you sell it for such a low price?”. To which the painter answers, “Yes, I can find a lot of people who will pay millions for this painting. But how many people would be willing to pay all their fortune for this painting?”

Today, people know the price of everything, but they do not know the value of anything.

As individuals who know the value of art, students graduate by feeling the privilege of being an Arts Management student at the end of their education period.

Above all, this Department allows students to become individuals full of “real art”. And “real art” makes an individual independent.

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Head - Department of Arts and Culture Management