NewsCoronavirus resources
Could a Nixon-era employment scheme get artists back to work?
The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act provided a lifeline for thousands of artists during the 1970s economic crisis
Newscoronavirus
German government earmarks €1bn for arts in €130bn pandemic stimulus package
Package aims to counter “severest economic crisis in the history of the federal republic”
NewsArts funding
Pennsylvania art organisations 'blind sided' by governor's suspension of grant funds
The funding freeze follows Philadelphia mayor's proposal to eliminate the city's Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy due to revenue shortfalls caused by coronavirus
NewsArts funding
'Save Italian culture from suffocation': art world leaders sign petition calling for national art fund in the wake of coronavirus crisis
Signatories include leaders at Rome's MaXXI Museum and Venice’s civic museums as well as the artist Paola Pivi
NewsCoronavirus resources
Warhol Foundation offers $1.6m in emergency relief grants to artists affected by the coronavirus crisis
Grants will be allocated to artists in 16 US cities through the foundation's regional regranting partners and can be used to cover expenses like food and rent
NewsUK politics
UK budget: freeports, money for patching up national museums and new £250m culture fund confirmed
Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivers first post-Brexit spending pledges
NewsBrexit
Hundreds of art organisations outraged as UK withdraws from €1.46bn Creative Europe fund
More than 680 cultural figures and institutions sign open letter over decision they believe "threatens an impoverished future for British creativity"
NewsBrazil
Jair Bolsonaro appoints conservative novela star Regina Duarte the new culture secretary
Duarte has been critical of the Rouanet Law, a federal cultural incentive, despite benefitting from it
NewsUK politics
Nicky Morgan—who stood down in UK election to spend more time with her family—is reappointed as culture secretary
Boris Johnson gives former MP a peerage in order to keep her in the cabinet, but survival of culture department in the longer term is not assured
NewsArts funding
Washington, DC’s mayor and arts commission locked in conflict
Muriel Bowser launches rival office of creative affairs and blocks access to the city’s public art vaults
NewsArts funding
Cash-strapped museums and libraries across England get £250m government funding boost
Lobby group warns of crumbling buildings and leaking roofs following “decades of underinvestment”
NewsFunding
Funding for culture to rise by 4.1% according to UK government's spending review
Treasury says there will be “over £300m to support the UK’s world-class national museums and galleries” in 2020-21
NewsEthics
How ethical can museums afford to be? We ask five major UK art institutions about funding challenges
We find out how mounting public scrutiny of private money could affect the bottom line of London's National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate
CommentMuseums & Heritage
Collectors are now collecting museums, not the other way around
Seats on boards offered by major museums are increasingly being used to serve the narrow agendas of the ultra-rich
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Philanthropy, but at what price? US museums wake up to public's ethical concerns
Daniel Weiss, Adam Weinberg and other museum leaders speak out following the fallout from the resignation of the Whitney’s vice chairman and the ongoing Sackler affair
CommentYoko Ono
Yoko Ono controversy | Government agencies cannot dictate museum programming
The revelation that New South Wales's tourism chief questioned the Sydney MCA's inclusion of a Yoko Ono show crosses a dangerous line
NewsYoko Ono
Just a 'well-known celebrity': Australian tourism chief doubted Yoko Ono's ability to draw crowds
Letter reveals that 2013 exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art was offered AU$500,000 of state money despite reservations
ArchiveLawsuits
Collector wins $1.7 million in damages from New York Gallery over violation of lending contract
Jean-Pierre Lehmann was denied “the right of first refusal over everybody”
ArchiveMuseums
Dara Birnbaum comments on fostering the museum-sponsor relationship
Can a balance be found whereby both parties stand to gain from a partnership?
ArchiveArt & Technology
Infrared-light technology gets funding boost
Technology could foresee deterioration of artworks
ArchiveApril 2008
Pompidou cancels Calder exhibition for lack of funds—and renovations are also delayed
The French gallery has been hit hard by a 6% reduction in government subsidy, part of Sarkozy's pledge to modernise the State by reducing public spending
ArchiveTate Modern
Tate Modern is a museum for the 21st century
The announcement by the British Government that it is putting £50m towards the costs of the new development of Tate Modern is one of the most significant moves in public cultural policy in recent years
ArchiveTate
Tate woos US patrons with cocktails at 10 Downing Street
Guggenheim director says US institutions cannot compete with such incentives
ArchiveJuly 2005
Future of US museum sponsorship in question after split of tobacco giant Altria
The Whitney and the Brooklyn Museum could lose annual grants from the conglomerate, which gave $300m to charitable organisations over the past five years
ArchiveNews
Warhol Foundation gives $10 million to artists
The money is being given to Creative Capital, a nonprofit picking up the slack in arts funding
ArchiveMarch 2004
Are the culture wars over? White House proposes $18m increase to federal arts funding
The boost, which will send "American masterpieces" across the US, comes more than a decade after Congress threatened to abolish the NEA for financing "objectionable" works
ArchiveJune 1996
German art heavyweights including Hans Haacke and Rosemarie Trockel sign document rejecting corporate sponsorship
If the State relinquishes its responsibility for funding culture, art will be restricted by private patronage, the letter argues
ArchiveFunding
Business Committee for the Arts survey suggests that US recession will not reduce art sponsorship
Corporations' trust in art as a tool for generating publicity has not wavered
Commentcoronavirus
When this is all over we must reimagine the infrastructure of the arts
Our enforced isolation during the coronavirus crisis gives us time to think about the role of culture in the public realm
Robert Hewison