Independent galleries of England, unite in the monetization of your toilets! Er... how about a tourist guide? "the hippest places to pee" or something. On Jan 28, 2014 9:15 AM, "marc garrett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's Arts Council Cuts time again, a Tory-led program to privatize the arts > > http://dalstonliteraryreview.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/the- > triennial-art-funding-bunfight/ > > It's Arts Council Cuts time again, the new Tory-led programme to get the > arts off public subsidy and onto private funding, and, in the process, > create virtually out of nowhere a brand-new job opportunity for posh girls > in the arts: development officer for struggling art spaces. The > supplications -- sorry, applications -- from art venues are not due till > March, but already the rumours are starting about who's going to get cut > (basically, anyone without a digital strategy) as people stare sadly into > the prospect of a rapidly dwindling pie. > > First up for spite is, of course, the Serpentine, which managed to get > negative press about their financial arrangements even before the Christmas > holiday. Well done, Serpentine! In December, news flew that the Serpentine > co-directors, Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the curator who > can reasonably claim to out-network the internet, gave themselves whopping > pay rises. The fact that they each make upwards of £140,000 and £120,000, > respectively (when other director salaries hover around the £60K level) is > not the only thing raising ire -- it's also the fact that the Serpentine, > the most strategically located art space in history, receives around > £900,000 in funding from the Arts Council, and that this figure is arrived > at in a pretty unfair way. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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