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The second issue of Volume 4 of The International Journal of the Arts in Society has now been published.

Volume 4, Number 2 contains:

• Elementary Students and Shakespeare: Inspiring Community and Learning by George Belliveau.
• The Social Function of Museums in the Digital Age by Susana Smith Bautista.
• Digital Explorations for Knowledge Building and Extending the Creative Capacities of Students by Nicola Yelland and Wai Man Vivienne Leung.
• Using Arts-Informed Inquiry as a Research Approach by Denise Stanley.
• From Passive White Cube Viewer to Active Black Cube User: Tracking Changes in Museum Environments via “Interactive” Installation Art (Analogue to Digital 1968-2008) by Cyrus Manasseh.
• Understanding Malaysia’s Political Scenario through Royce’s Concepts of Loyalty: An Interpretation from Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens and Pericles by Arbaayah Ali Termizi and Florence Toh Haw Ching.
• The Plastic Analysis of Rembrandt’s “The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq” Also Known as “The Night Watch” by Leyla Varlik Senturk.

• Transcending Boundaries: “The Arts of Islam” Exhibition, Nasser Khalili Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 2007 by Louise Ryan.
• Not a Person’s First Name Art Is: The Kavouras/Tracy Project by Robert Tracy.
• The Research and Development of Natural Color Batik Product in Community: Case Study in Namo Batik Group, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand by Saowanit Kanchanarat and Nuanchawee Sangchai.
• Toioho ki Apiti the Awakening of Creativity: A Pedagogy for Trans-national Art by Robert Hans George Jahnke.
• From the City of Bits to e-Topia: Taking the Thesis on Digitally-inclusive Regeneration Platforms of Information Society Full Circle by Mark Deakin and Sam Allwinkle.
• Cultural Trauma and Urban Performance: Ground Zero, ‘Tribute in Light’ and the Spectacle of Memory by Russell Rodrigo.
• Sensitive Skin: Exploring the Inter-activity of Street Art Through a Reading of Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics by Court Williams.
• Dance and Social Inclusion: Facilitating the Process, Developing Graduate Employability by Victoria Hunter and Pauline Gladstone.
• Games at the Crossroads of Art and Technology: Pervasive Games as Laboratories for Understanding the Possible Impact of Pervasive Technologies on Agency and Narrative by Astrid Vicas.
• The Traces of Islamic Mysticism (Sufism) in Contemporary Turkish Art by Aygul Aykut.
• Colour Consoles My Soul, My Mind, My Heart, and Yours by Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja.
• The Value of Arts in Higher Education by Barbara Sellers-Young.
• Ways of Making, Seeing and Thinking about Art: Art Expression and Art Education by Alexandra Mouriki - Zervou and Antonis Vaos.
• Engaging Educated Islands: An Examination of the Collaborative Process of Creating the 2009 Venice Biennale Art Education Resource for Australian School Students by Margaret Mary Baguley, Kim Snepvangers and Gay McDonald.
• Israeli New-towns and Propaganda Films in the 1950s by Keren Filman and Iris Aravot.
• The Text Selection Process in the English Classroom: Factors Guiding, Influencing, and Limiting Teacher Selection by Giovanni Piccolo.
• Community Art as a Transformative Experience: Reflective Explorations of an Artist-in-Residence by Celia Reissig-Vasile.
• The Vampire and the Pirate: Art and Archetype in the Political Imagination by Kerric Harvey.
• The Intellectual and Inspiration: Sounds of Sense and Sensuality in Aschenbach’s Venice by Shersten Johnson.
• Landscapes of Everyday Aesthetics: Reflective Arts Performance and Special Needs by Lorna Ramsay.
• Exploration of Graphical Characteristics and Automatic Stylization in Chinese Painting by Zhang Jing and Wong Kam-Wah.
• The Fabric of Architecture: Constructed Garments by Jane Lawrence and Rachel Hurst.
• Performing Migration: Art and Site-Specificity at the U.S.-Mexico Border by Ila Sheren.
• Replicas for the Rest of Us by Sondra Bacharach and David Eng.
• Designed to Last: Striving toward an Indigenous American Aesthetic by Heather Ahtone.
• Leadership in the Theatre: A Study of the Views of Practitioners on Effective and Ineffective Styles by Anthony Rhine.
• Resonance of the Republic: England 1660 and France 1831: The Relationship of Research to the Construction of the Exhibition, Tête-à-Tête, Musée des Beaux Art, Nîmes, Nov 2007 – Feb 2008 by Peter Seddon.
• Techno Trans-nationalism by Pauline de Souza.
• Skeletons Unmasked: Exotica in the Work of James Ensor by Ola Charlotte Robbins.
• The Orange Revolution: Children’s Self-Expressions through their Artworks by Joanna Black and Orest Cap.
• ‘When Correctly Viewed, Everything is Lewd’-Art and Censorship in New Zealand by Ursula Cheer.
• Bringing Digital Media into the Classroom: A Case Study Investigating Artists Working with Teachers by Anna Goulding.
• Plato’s Republic: The Relationship between Imitation in Art and in Actual Conduct by Uchenna Onuzulike.