Arts Council England News
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A Pablo Picasso painting valued at 50 million pounds ($77 million) has been sold privately by Christie’s International after U.K. institutions failed to raise the necessary funds to keep it in the country.
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Arts Council England , which funnels state subsidies to performing-arts groups and some museums, said it will cut most recipients’ grants 15 percent by 2015, shrink its own staff, and phase out aid to the Arts & Business nonprofit company to meet government belt-tightening requirements.
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Arts Council England , the organization that funnels U.K. government aid to the performing arts and to some galleries, announced each institution’s envelope for 2012-15, with London’s Almeida Theatre getting a third less, and the Serpentine Gallery , 31 percent more.
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Charles Saatchi , the British collector who last July offered to donate his London gallery and more than 25 million pounds ($41 million) worth of art to the nation, has yet to reach agreement on who they will go to.
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The disclosure that Picasso’s “Child With a Dove” is to go on sale is good news for the National Galleries of London and Edinburgh.
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The U.K.’s visual-arts sector got off lightly in Chancellor George Osborne ’s spending review while the performing arts got hammered. That’s the headline assessment, and the figures seem to bear it out --superficially, at least.
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With its huge curved roof, 40,000 square-foot white floor and dizzying viewing galleries, a new building outside London looks fit for a James Bond villain.
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U.K. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced an 80 million pound ($120 million) matching fund to boost cultural philanthropy, saying the rich in Britain gave six times less to the arts than their U.S. equivalents.
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Shakespeare is coming home.
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As a hard-living art writer in the 1990s, Gregor Muir sometimes crashed out above a shop in East London where artists Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas sold crude beer-can sculptures for a few pounds each.
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