Local authorities in England are taking drastic action, including scrapping all funding for museums, leading some experts to argue that new funding models are the only way to survive

The German government has pulled out from the Kabul Riverfront Transformation project, which was to modernise parts of the city's historic centre and install an art gallery

The announcement signalled a shift of resources away from London, a broader range of venues beyond traditional art museums and an overall reduction in real terms

The UK’s international organisation for cultural relations has been subject to a number of cost-reduction exercises in the past year amid a massive funding shortfall

The move follows the foundation's launch of a diversity action plan which aims to stamp out racial inequality in the visual arts

Protests about the gallery’s lack of transparency concerning the energy company's sponsorship miss the point of how big business and the arts interact

Sarah Jessica Parker and the mysterious Tate Americas Foundation raise money for Latin American acquisitions

The president of the Paris museum and chairman of its American fundraisers go head to head over expense of India show and how it raises cash in the US

National institutions reluctantly set up trusts to gain access to their own reserves

Spaces bloom and then wither as founders’ commitment quickly fades

Corporate giving down 14% over three years according to Business Committee for the Arts

Investment in art has become less popular among US companies when more commercial options are available

Longtime arts and heritage patron Olivier de Rohan denounces the increasing influence of external bodies on museums' creative decisions

So far the next generation have yet to replicate their parents’ efforts on the same scale

Institutions must grit their teeth and hope for the intervention of private investors, as several large shows are going ahead without corporate sponsors

The French gallery has been hit hard by a 6% reduction in government subsidy, part of Sarkozy's pledge to modernise the State by reducing public spending

There is a danger that the conservatism of the museum sector will be challenged by a new generation of board members who feel that “rules are for other people”

The gift from 53 local patrons is one of the largest in the history of institutional donations

Sotheby's is auctioning 200 antiquities and pre-Modern works worth $15m from the US museum's collection to raise funds to purchase Modern and contemporary art

Recent corporate scandals have raised concerns that American charities should be examining their ethics policies

An increasing number of museums are being built as speculative investments designed to attract incompatible currencies—collections and crowds

The money will restore the French museum's 18th-century decorative art galleries and the collaboration seeks to improve US-French relations in the wake of the Iraq War

Leading philanthropist-collectors gathered in Miami Beach to discuss their personal philosophies

Industrialist Oleg Deripaska has become the Russian museum’s most generous private donor—even if his support is part of a public relations initiative

The Whitney and the Brooklyn Museum could lose annual grants from the conglomerate, which gave $300m to charitable organisations over the past five years

The boost, which will send "American masterpieces" across the US, comes more than a decade after Congress threatened to abolish the NEA for financing "objectionable" works

After 17 years and 15 shows, the Italian car manufacturer has withdrawn funding from major kunsthalle in Venice

Museum director will don Clarks shoes and fill his pockets with Kendal Mint cakes for the 150-mile trek

It risked bankruptcy to become the capital, and a deal with the federal government gives Berlin DM100m a year—providing that plum institutions come under national control

The Royal Academy, Tate, British Museum and National Gallery are all raising money successfully in the States, where 600,000 households report income exceeding $5m