DCMS Announces 8% Cut In Arts Spending For 2015-2016

The (DCMS) Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced an 8% cut in spending for the period 2015-2016. The deal, made with the Treasury is understood to be across the board effecting all arts disciplines and museums. Peter Bazalgette, the newly appointed...
Local British Councils Slash Arts Budgets By Up To 50%

Local British Councils Slash Arts Budgets By Up To 50%

They always seem to leave it to the weekend to bury bad news, in the hope that the public doesn’t notice, but Westminster City Council has confirmed a two-year plan to scrap £350,000 per year from its community arts budget, a fund currently directed to...

Artworks Burnt In War Against Arts Cuts

Italian gallerist Antonio Manfredi torches artworks in protest against government austerity measures amid debt crisisAntonio Manfredi, director of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples, has started to set fire to his collection, with the first being ritually...

Business Support Of Arts Drops Dramatically

Preliminary reports suggest that donations by businesses to arts organisations have dropped by 7%, while gifts from individuals are up…New statistics from the charity Arts & Business suggest that business investment in the arts has fallen for the fourth...

Henley Report Champions Art Schools

The government-commissioned Henley report makes a number of recommendations tol make England’s cultural education ‘the envy of the world’. In particular, it calls on the government to continue and extend ‘exceptional funding’ for art,...