arts funding
Dance landscape shrinks and shifts nationwide in Arts Council cutsWednesday, 30 March 2011The Arts Council’s rearrangement of the dance world by its handling of its 15 per cent subsidy cut shows no change in its persistence in choosing to prefer bureaucratic structures to talent. The 15 per cent cut has been handed straight over to all... Read more... |
Come clean over cuts, arts chiefs challenge CameronFriday, 25 March 2011The leaders of Britain’s leading arts establishments, from the Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company and Philharmonia Orchestra to choreographers Akram Khan and Siobhan Davies, have written to the Prime Minister asking him to come clean... Read more... |
The Budget and the Arts: Osborne tilts towards private supportersThursday, 24 March 2011
Yesterday’s Budget, as expected, tilted future presumptions for arts funding firmly towards a higher proportion of private philanthropy with a series of measures to encourage wealthy individuals through tax quid pro quos to donate to arts either in... Read more... |
National Youth Orchestra/Kristjan Järvi, Leeds Town HallSunday, 09 January 2011
A glance at the programme hinted at the identity of the orchestra: you don’t perform Prokofiev’s Scythian Suite and Janáček’s Sinfonietta in the same evening unless you’ve industrial quantities of brass and percussion to spare. This was riveting... Read more... |
Year Out/Year In: Dance is Still With Us (So Far)Wednesday, 29 December 2010
I was taken to task by a commenter this year who told me I should go and review music, if I couldn't enjoy dance. Hm. One takes such things to heart, but it's humbug. While piling up memories over 25 years might mean that the noise in my memory is... Read more... |
What price musical learning?Thursday, 04 November 2010
Last year I took my musical instrument to Tower Hamlets. The heartland of the capital’s huge Bangladeshi community is not a part of London where you expect to hear much orchestral playing. Nor are boroughs like Hackney and Newham ordinarily seen... Read more... |
Who earns £630,000 at the Royal Opera House?Tuesday, 26 October 2010As arts cuts announced today start to bite, few people are aware that the Royal Opera House pays its two top people more than £630,000 and nearly £400,000 each. Although Covent Garden is refusing to identify them, it is likely that they are chief... Read more... |
At Sadler's Wells bad times mean nudity and horses on stageTuesday, 26 October 2010Sadler’s Wells launched their 2011 season this morning with a warning that the front-loading of arts cuts to the next two years will cut a swathe through the British arts landscape.Alastair Spalding said that while this year’s cut of 7 per cent was... Read more... |
Subject: Re: Arts Cuts (Reply All)Friday, 22 October 2010
It began with a review of 100 Years of German Song. Roused by a comment to a reader (see Igor's comment below), Fisun was moved to email Igor in support of his trenchant views on arts funding. It wasn't long before other writers at theartsdesk got... Read more... |
100 Years of German Song, 1810-1910, Schade, Martineau, Wigmore HallWednesday, 20 October 2010
As we take in news of the cuts that the arts will have to absorb, and wait for the Cassandras to start hollering, it's important to remind ourselves of one arts venue that won't be wiping one bead of sweat off its brow as a result of today's... Read more... |
Watch this space: Arts funding cuts emergeWednesday, 20 October 2010Frontline public funding for arts will be cut by some 15 per cent over the next four years, said the Chancellor George Osborne today, as he announced a cut of almost half in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport budget, from £1.9 billion to £1.... Read more... |
Opinion: Frieze Art Fair spells bad news for artThursday, 14 October 2010
With the Frieze Art Fair now upon us, the only sane response for anyone interested in art is to leave London until the wretched event is over. Art fairs are for art what pimps are for virgins, to misquote Barnett Newman. The work, in other words,... Read more... |
