At the beginning of June 2014, the U.S.A.'s National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Cultural Value Project of the U.K.'s Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) convened a two-day symposium to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from both countries--as well as from other parts of Europe, Australia, and Canada--to conduct a "reality check" on the landscape of cultural participation metrics. The goals of the event was to probe our assumptions about how and why we measure public involvement in arts and culture, to confront any orthodoxies in how cultural participation is reported, and to chart a path toward more durable and meaningful measurement. The symposium identified some pressing research questions and opportunities. To find out more please visit the Cultural Value Project blog (opens in new window).