The Chancellor’s Spending Review has left the UK arts with a mixed bag.
Free entry to national museums will remain but hundreds of regional museums, galleries, theatres and music organizations are under threat after the Art Council England (ACE) takes a 29.6 per cent funding drop.
“The Secretary of State has asked us to try to ensure that funding for arts organisations is not cut by more than 15 per cent over the next four years – the tipping point that we identified to the Chancellor some months ago,” Alan Davey, Chief Executive of ACE said in a statement .
“It will be a tough task but we are determined to manage the cuts in the best possible way for the benefit of the whole arts and cultural sector,” Mr Davey said.
ACE will have invested £1.3 billion of regular funds in around 880 arts organisations across England, including the Royal Opera House, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Punchdrunk, BALTIC, and Southbank Centre from 2008 to 2011.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s funding of ACE will consistently drop for the next four years going from £387.7 million in 2010/11 to £359.2 million, £351.6 million, then £349.4 million by 2014/15, according to the Council’s website.
Administration cuts of 50 per cent are also demanded.
National touring programmes, broadcasting partnerships, the Cultural Olympiad and investment in events such as the Manchester international Festival will be scrutinized at the ACE National Council meeting on Monday 25th October.
Other organizations like the Tate Modern, the British Museum and the British Library will keep the capital invested in them, according to the Financial Times. Tate Modern has a bill for £215 million for the Herzog and Meuron extension. The British Museum will have an extension by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners worth £135 million.
Over 5.6 million visited the British Museum in London last year and 14 million visited its collection online.
Neil MacGregor, Director of the Museum since August 2002, said in a statement that he was pleased that Jeremy Hunt, culture, media and sport secretary, and Ed Vaizey, culture minister, recognise the “unique role museums play in the world today and reaffirmed their support of free admission.
“We are also particularly encouraged that they have reconfirmed the government’s support of the British Museum’s planned new World Conservation and Exhibition Centre,” he continued.
However, English Heritage funding has been cut by 32 per cent, and the Renaissance in the Regions programme lost 15 per cent.
Free entry to national museums will remain but hundreds of regional museums, galleries, theatres and music organizations are under threat after the Art Council England (ACE) takes a 29.6 per cent funding drop.
“The Secretary of State has asked us to try to ensure that funding for arts organisations is not cut by more than 15 per cent over the next four years – the tipping point that we identified to the Chancellor some months ago,” Alan Davey, Chief Executive of ACE said in a statement .
“It will be a tough task but we are determined to manage the cuts in the best possible way for the benefit of the whole arts and cultural sector,” Mr Davey said.
ACE will have invested £1.3 billion of regular funds in around 880 arts organisations across England, including the Royal Opera House, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Punchdrunk, BALTIC, and Southbank Centre from 2008 to 2011.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s funding of ACE will consistently drop for the next four years going from £387.7 million in 2010/11 to £359.2 million, £351.6 million, then £349.4 million by 2014/15, according to the Council’s website.
Administration cuts of 50 per cent are also demanded.
National touring programmes, broadcasting partnerships, the Cultural Olympiad and investment in events such as the Manchester international Festival will be scrutinized at the ACE National Council meeting on Monday 25th October.
Other organizations like the Tate Modern, the British Museum and the British Library will keep the capital invested in them, according to the Financial Times. Tate Modern has a bill for £215 million for the Herzog and Meuron extension. The British Museum will have an extension by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners worth £135 million.
Over 5.6 million visited the British Museum in London last year and 14 million visited its collection online.
Neil MacGregor, Director of the Museum since August 2002, said in a statement that he was pleased that Jeremy Hunt, culture, media and sport secretary, and Ed Vaizey, culture minister, recognise the “unique role museums play in the world today and reaffirmed their support of free admission.
“We are also particularly encouraged that they have reconfirmed the government’s support of the British Museum’s planned new World Conservation and Exhibition Centre,” he continued.
However, English Heritage funding has been cut by 32 per cent, and the Renaissance in the Regions programme lost 15 per cent.
