Birmingham City Council is under fire for its decision to sell off £1.25 billion in assets to repay a government bailout loan, which has led to proposed cuts in funding for arts organisations.
21 February 2024
Arts Council England has announced a £43.5 million shift in funding as part of the Government’s pet project ‘Levelling up’. ACE is the main organisation distributing grants to arts, culture, and creativity in England.
5 November 2022
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in the US which was under the threat of being axed by Donald Trump in his first Federal Government budget has been spared by Congress. Trump had announced his intentions to defund both the NEA and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
2 May 2017
Matt Hancock the new Culture minister has promised a funding deal to protect London arts from more cuts. The Arts Council England budget… Read More
9 October 2016
Charges for museum entry were scrapped at national galleries in England, Scotland and Wales in 2001. Many of these institutions had… Read More
25 July 2015
The (DCMS) Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced an 8% cut in spending for the period 2015-2016. The… Read More
14 June 2013
They always seem to leave it to the weekend to bury bad news, in the hope that the public doesn’t… Read More
9 March 2013
Italian gallerist Antonio Manfredi torches artworks in protest against government austerity measures amid debt crisis Antonio Manfredi, director of the… Read More
18 April 2012
Preliminary reports suggest that donations by businesses to arts organisations have dropped by 7%, while gifts from individuals are up…… Read More
29 February 2012
The government-commissioned Henley report makes a number of recommendations tol make England’s cultural education ‘the envy of the world’. In… Read More
29 February 2012
Last year, Art Fund gained 18,000 new members, helping them in their work to compensate for drastic government cuts to… Read More
4 January 2012
Channel 4’s ‘Grayson Perry On Taste’ signals new spate of arts commissions from artists like Banksy, George Shaw, Hilary Lloyd,… Read More
8 December 2011
The streaker, Mark Roberts, who disrupted last night’s Turner Prize announcement and was arrested by police has turned out to… Read More
6 December 2011
Grayson Perry has spoken out against arts cuts at university where he was student, arguing that digital media is no… Read More
12 November 2011
Trustees order management to get workplace under control Something is not quite right within the seemingly idyllic Tate Organization, as… Read More
29 August 2011
Arts Cuts a Survival Guide: What next for the arts? Following a meeting today, at the Young Vic of… Read More
25 March 2011
Royal festival Hall Is Meet Up Point For Artists 10am Groups of artists protesting on the 26th March are meeting… Read More
25 March 2011
Businesses investment in UK arts fell last year by 11%. This was despite Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s DCMS directive to… Read More
29 January 2011
More than 100 smaller organisations are likely to lose their Arts Council funding. The announcement follows the government’s decision to… Read More
4 November 2010
Latest News: George Osborne’s statement this lunchtime was only the tip of the iceberg figure for the (DCMS) Department for… Read More
20 October 2010
The state of advanced capitalism which we are in has no ethical limitations. Organisations, and more importantly the top-dogs awarding… Read More
19 October 2010
A hit list of hundreds of taxpayer-funded bodies were axed in a “bonfire of the quangos” today. Cabinet Office Minister… Read More
14 October 2010
Tate Modern Director Sir Nicholas Serota announced in an interview today that Museums in the UK could not weather cuts… Read More
5 October 2010
As promised, Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger produced a new work to highlight proposed government cuts in the arts. The… Read More
21 September 2010
