English Arts Grants Are Maintained
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Arts Council England, the government-financed body that provides subsidies to the arts, announced a 9.5 percent budget increase over the next three years and maintained financing of 17 recipients that had been scheduled for cuts, Bloomberg News reported. Those cuts had caused an uproar, drawing hundreds of actors to a protest at the Young Vic Theater last month. Christopher Frayling, chairman of the council, said that 888 arts groups would share Â£1.3 billion ($2.6 billion) between now and 2011. Another 185 groups, though, will no longer get financing, including the London Mozart Players and the City of London Sinfonia.
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The annual June art auctions have made London a more important art capital than it has been for more than 20 years.
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Twenty-five years after performing on Pink Floyd&#39;s Another Brick In The Wall, members of a British school choir have become eligible for royalties.
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Federal funding for the grant program that has helped hire thousands of community police officers across the country may be drying up. After several years of declining financial support, the Bush administration proposed no funding for that hiring program and others like it for the next fiscal year.
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Universities in England welcome plans for a new charity funding scheme to be announced by the prime minister.
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Harvey S. Shipley Miller, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, plans to donate his collection of contemporary works to the museum.
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WEMBLEY, England - For art, they could have gone to the British Museum. For something grand, Big Ben and Buckingham Palace were a train ride away.
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Millions in European grants may have to be returned after auditors find problems with Scottish projects.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.- A new scheme is being introduced in the United Kingdom where museums will be able to claim Gift Aid on both the admission fee and the donation.
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Comment is free: Boris Johnson: While Scottish MPs vote on English university funding, English MPs can do nothing to stop paying Scotland's student fees.
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Government announces grants to help local authorities affected by recent floods.
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Comment is free: David Edgar: The Arts Council intends to promote street theatre and circus skills instead of new plays, but people want text-based work
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Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, said late Monday that he believed Eli Broadâs decision to keep his art collection in a private foundation that makes loans to museums is a positive development because it means none of the artworks will be sold, an act that would limit access to them by the Los Angeles museum and others. The museum will open the $56 million Broad Contemporary Art Museum next month, and it has long been speculated that Mr. Broad would donate his collection at least in part to the museum. But Mr. Broad said he had recently decided to keep his collection in his foundation because no museum, the Los Angeles one included, could commit to exhibiting a significant portion of it permanently. Asked if he viewed Mr. Broadâs decision as demonstrating a lack of confidence in him or the museum, Mr. Govan said: âQuite the reverse. Since Day 1 heâs privately and publicly given me a lot of support.â Mr. Govan said that âfrom the public perspective, I donât think most people care when they walk in the door whether the museum owns the works or not, as long as they donât lose themâ to private sales. And, he added, âheâs got 2,000 works, so there is plenty to go around.â.
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Big-name arts organisations spared but smaller groups suffer in embarrassing funding climbdown
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A Â£21m Heritage Lottery Fund grant will help pay for a museum to be built round Henry V111's flagship.
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Money from the auction of Syd Barrett's belongings will go to educational developments in the art world.
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Comment is free: Nicholas Serota: It would be a tragedy were a decade's advances to be squandered by a cut in cultural funding.