Abstract

Leadership and care of public interests are necessary and require conditions for living culture in step with changes and as a precursor of social innovation. There are no components that are more crucial and effective than art and culture to carry out the anticipatory function that supports social innovation. The basic question that informs this contribution then becomes: what characteristics should leadership in the field of public good in art and culture have? Or rather: if art and culture perform an anticipatory function, leadership, which since the etymology of the word, refers to anticipation, to moving forward to lead, with what constraints and what possibilities it is and should be exercised? There is an analogy between the phenomenologies of art and culture and the leadership styles that are exercised and can be exercised in the institutions and processes of art and culture as public goods, goods on whose creation and valorization depends the level of civilization of a community and the rate of effective integration of people’s capabilities and opportunities