Arts funding

Mixed news: the UK's culture sector reacts to Labour's Autumn budget

While a boost in funding for national museums has been welcomed by key figures, concerns remain among regional institutions

Gareth Harris. Additional reporting by Joe Ware

Smithsonian receives $40m from the Lilly Endowment

The money will be used for programming related to the semiquincentennial of the US in 2026

Florida arts organisations devastated by Ron DeSantis's funding cuts

Right-wing governor's decision to slash entire $32m budget leaves smaller organisations fighting for survival

Mellon Foundation launches $25m fund to support culture along the US-Mexico border

The inaugural Frontera Culture Fund will contribute to 32 arts and community organisations

France's cultural pass at risk as calls to scrap it grow

President Macron’s flagship youth scheme receives twice as much public funding as the Louvre

Smithsonian Institution launches $2.5bn fundraising campaign

The campaign, timed to coincide with the semiquincentennial of the United States in 2026, is the most ambitious fundraising undertaking for a cultural organisation on record

National Endowment for the Arts awards $12m in new grants to more than 100 US arts organisations

The grants are part of a new initiative, dubbed ArtsHere, intended to increase community arts engagement in underserved areas

How the UK can be a cultural superpower: think tank puts forward arts policies for new Labour government

The Fabian Society has proposed actions including introducing a tourism charge and organising a review of Arts Council England

An open letter to Chris Bryant, the tenth UK arts minister in ten years

Labour’s pre-election arts manifesto, Creating Growth, included policies to put the arts back into education and bring museums into line with universities on open data

Sonia Boyce and John Akomfrah among 4,000 arts professionals urging UK government to stand up for culture

The Venice Biennale artists are backing a collective manifesto which calls for new policies to support the visual arts

New York's Department of Cultural Affairs awards institutions more than $200m for capital projects

A $4.3m renovation grant will help restore the historical Art Students League to its former glory

‘We need a shared language’: Scotland-wide festival highlights links between the arts and health

Healing Arts Scotland, organised by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab and Scottish Ballet in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, is the first national festival to explore the role of cultural engagement in health

Scottish culture crisis deepens as major arts award pulled

Creative Scotland's Open Fund for Individuals has closed indefinitely after funding was put on hold by the Scottish government

Women artists across US receive $308,000 to create environmental work

A collaboration between the New York Foundation for the Arts and Anonymous Was A Woman, the Environmental Art Grants celebrate their third year

Warhol Foundation to sell the artist’s works on eBay to benefit its grantees

The initiative, called the Philanthropy Factory, hopes to raise an additional $1.5m for 74 US arts organisations

Texas city faces backlash for stripping local arts centre's funding over drag performances

The city council in Lubbock, Texas voted last week to cut $30,000 in grant money to a free monthly art walk

Frankenthaler Foundation announces $3.3m in climate grants to 69 art organisations

The money will be used to install solar panels, updating lighting and create carbon-neutrality plans

UK spending on culture among the lowest in Europe, says landmark report

The State of the Arts research document also shows arts education in England to be in “significant decline”

New London hub with ‘affordable’ artists studios to rise from ruins of 19th-century warehouse

A scheme by the non-profit Create London will convert the Newham building into a culture and learning centre

New York City’s 2025 budget includes a record $254m for culture

Mayor Eric Adams and the city council restored $53m in funding for public programming last month

UK’s Henry Moore Institute reopens after major redevelopment

The head of the organisation hopes the newly thought out spaces will prove inviting to artists in the city, during what is a difficult time for the British cultural sector

Collector Jorge Pérez blasts Ron DeSantis for vetoing $32m in Florida arts funding

"We were long a society of fun and sun, but we’re no longer that—we don’t want that," he said.

French parliamentary elections 2024: candidates outline plans for arts and culture

Rassemblement National, New Popular Front and Renaissance politicians discuss policy areas, closing the Centre Pompidou and free entry to museums

Alexandre Crochet. Additional reporting by Gareth Harris

'We need strong leaders to stand up for the future of UK arts funding'

Hit by austerity cuts and activist boycotts, who is standing up for the arts?

New York City budget for 2025 restores $53m in cultural funding

The $112.4bn municipal budget for the coming fiscal year also restored $58m in critical funding for the city’s three library systems

Antony Gormley donates art worth £500,000 to the UK Labour party ahead of general election

Fellow artists Grayson Perry and Maggi Hambling have also made “non-cash” contributions

The Week in Art podcast | Arts and the UK election, ex-Uffizi head fails in Florence mayoral bid, Hank Willis Thomas at Glastonbury

What a change in government might mean for the UK culture sector, a close look at Eike Schmidt’s unsuccessful campaign, and Willis Thomas discusses displaying his new afro pick sculpture at the world’s biggest music festival

UK arts bodies urge incoming government to stand up for the culture sector

More than 20 organisations have called for improved arts education and freedom of movement in Europe

Florida governor Ron DeSantis vetoes $32m in state arts funding

Museums and other cultural institutions will lose out on millions in promised grants that were originally in the state budget before it was sent to DeSantis to sign