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Arts offer 'significant return'
London :: United Kingdom | 17 days ago
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Arts Council England says investment offers 'significant return' The report cited War Horse as an example of public funding leading to commercial success The arts get less than 0.1% of public spending but deliver four times that in gross domestic
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Prints dumped after sex crime conviction
Truro :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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Britain's Tate gallery has removed more than 30 prints by artist Graham Ovenden from its online collection after the 70-year-old, whose major works feature young girls, was found guilty of sex offences against children. The internationally acclaimed
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Arts organisations braced for belt-tightening as Arts Council passes on Government cuts
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Suggested Topics More than 700 arts organisations supported by Arts Council England will receive a letter tomorrow detailing significant cuts in financial support as a result of an £11.6m reduction in its Government funding. In December the
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Hacked Off in row with government over regulation document
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Lewis Whyld/PA The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is at loggerheads with Hacked Off, after the group campaigning for stricter newspaper regulation published a draft of a bill produced by the department's civil servants. Hacked Off, which
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Arts Council faces £11.6m cuts
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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Arts Council England faces more cuts of £11.6m Dance troupe The Featherstonehaughs disbanded after losing its ACE funding Arts Council England (ACE) will have its funding cut by a further £11.6m before 2015, the Department for Culture, Media and
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Victorian Bloomsbury, By Rosemary Ashton
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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Suggested Topics When Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa moved into 46 Gordon Square in 1904, in what Henry James had described as dirty Bloomsbury, the family was appalled at the young women's choice of this profoundly unfashionable district of
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Letters: Difficult choices ahead for the arts
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
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Letters Difficult choices ahead for the arts Tristram Hunt ( A return to two nations , Comment, 27 October) makes many valuable points in his article about the threat to " local government 's heroic, civilising role". He speaks passionately about the
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Cuts to Arts Council England announced: 117 jobs to go
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
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Arts Council England has announced the cuts to its own administrative costs that were demanded in the last spending review by the then culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt . The changes are summarised by ACE thus: An overall reduction in staff numbers
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Australian Mona Lisa dusted off
Canberra :: Australia | 7 months ago
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22 An exquisite copy of the Mona Lisa is about to go on show at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. It looks just like the real thing, right down to the cracks in the paint, but it was created to give Australians in the early 1900s a feel
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Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
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Call the main Guardian and Observer switchboard: +44 (0)20 3353 2000 Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings, Wakefield One of the weaknesses in the mid-20th century modernist sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, her husband Ben Nicholson, and Henry Moore
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