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Restore the Arts: impact, precarity, and action, in National Portfolio Organisations 2023-2028
15 years of austerity era standstill funding for NPOs is hobbling public programmes, thwarting ambition, holding back sector development and business model investment, while negatively impacting working conditions…
Artists Business Models
Helping artists, policymakers and employers understand how artists work, career development opportunities, and building equitable processes Artists and how they work are widely misunderstood inside and outside of the art world. Even artists themselves have difficulty in describing how the peculiar mix of non arts employment, artistic practice, freelance activity and funding combine to make an […]
Applied: Artist Workforce Data
Data and insight on artists’ working conditions, career barriers, and ambitions Applied addresses a crucial gap in data and insights related to artists in England — specifically, their working conditions, the barriers they face, and their…
Wash-Out
A week is a long time in politics: rapid and unforeseeable changes can transform the political and economic landscape. During one week in April 2017, UK politicians made significant changes affecting the financial prospects of the UK’s public facing…
The Code of Art
The idea of art industry self regulation is accepted by an increasingly wide range of art market professionals and their expert advisers, but there is no agreement amongst them on best ways and means of successfully…
Art Industry Self-Regulation
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland during January 2015, leading world economist Nouriel Roubini publicly attacked the global art industry for being secretive and opaque, and called for its regulation. Roubini’s remarks were based on…
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
‘There are no votes in the arts. Nobody’s interested.’ This was the instinctive response of re election obsessed Jim Hacker when bridling at Sir Humphrey’s insistence that his PM should speak at a…
Public Art and the Law
Architects’ collaboration with artists and craftworkers has been the subject of serious debate and some activity over the past five years. The ‘art and architecture’ movement in the U.K. started with the 1982 ICA Conference,…
Regulating the Art Industry
Nouriel Roubini is a leading world economist, renowned for predicting the world economic downturn of 2007/8 years beforehand. At the World Economic Forum event at Davos in Switzerland in January 2015 he made a significant public…
Moral Rights: A Suitable Case for Treatment?
Artists’ moral rights laws have been in force in the UK since 1989. Have they been operating well for the past twenty odd years, or is there room for improvement? This question is…
Endangered Public Sculptures
Several currently running cases concern the legal status and protection of sculpture in the public environment. In November 2012 the London Borough of Tower Hamlets made a policy decision to sell Henry Moore’s sculpture, Draped Seated Woman,…
Change of Art
On 18 October 2011, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a programme, Change of Art, exploring ideas to ‘rotate or retire’ public artworks that have become ‘tired, decrepit or meaningless’, in the course of which legal and practical questions…
Deaccessioning Public Collections
During these straitened economic times increasing numbers of public museums and galleries around the world have been driven to consider deaccessioning works in their collections; and many have done so. There are clearly ethical and policy arguments…
Dire Straits – outside the gallery
No lies he wouldn’t compromise No junk no bits of string And all the lies we subsidise That just don’t mean a thing I’ve got to say he passed away in obscurity And now…
New Labour Arts Policies
This issue will be the last before the forthcoming General Election and so, as we have done over the past 20 years, we will try to explore the likely policies of the party that looks most…
Public Exhibition Payments
Recently there has been increasing interest in the question of payments to artists whose work is exhibited in public. Any scheme devised would necessarily have legal implications; for this reason, and as a contribution to a wider…
Percentage for Art
Come gather round people Wherever you roam* From Ancient China, Classical Greece and Rome, the Renaissance through to the Bauhaus, the collaboration between art and architecture has been a vital, significant and evident feature within society. The…
The Next Moves Forward, part 1
For the third time in eight years, I set myself the task of examining the newly elected Government’s past achievements and future policies in relation to the visual arts. In my reviews of 1979…