Funding

Interview with Mikhail Shvydkoi on funding and restitution: “Sausage meat is not acceptable. Only culture in exchange for culture is valid”

Russia’s Deputy Culture Minister speaks about the need to establish a new cultural identity in the new Russia

Tate Gallery annual report for 1992-94: great progress on small funds

The study shows an increasing and successful reliance on non-government support in this time of limited funding and frozen resources

Spanish to bring in laws that smooth the path for art sponsorship

Tax mandates pertaining to the acquisition of art will be eased for both donors and foundations

Fundingarchive

London museums find individuals are still more generous than corporations

One spectacular example is the Hotung Gallery in the British Museum, funded through £2 million from the Hong Kong businessman Joseph Hotung

Luis Monreal, director of La Caixa, has a national-sized budget to spend

The Spanish savings bank, had an operating budget of $67.64 million in 1993, of which $11.87 million was spent on visual arts projects

The end of the Grands Projets

France's culture budget will see a 2.5% drop in real terms next year

Corporations favour political correctness

Arts sponsorship is increasingly associated with marketing concerns rather than disinterested corporate philanthropy

The smoking dilemma: will Philip Morris's art support outlive its critics?

The tobacco giant remains one of the most important private funders of the arts in the US

The mechanics of sponsorship: an interview with one of the UK's biggest exhibition sponsors

James Joll of the international media giant Pearson plc explains the who, what, why and quid pro quo of corporate involvement in the arts

ICA becomes first UK arts centre to enter into title sponsorship with Toshiba agreement

In exchange for the monetary support the car company will provide, all ICA branding will include their logo

Unescoarchive

At last, an agreement to save unstable Burgos cathedral is reached

UNESCO threaten to de-list the building if central and regional governments refused to cooperate

April 1994archive

Dutch government cuts Mondrian Foundation's sponsorship budget

Holland will not be participating in the Biennales of Sidney and São Paolo as a result

Hollandarchive

Holland’s code policing the sponsorship of cultural activities

The code was devised as a response to the normalisation of corporate funding, which could cause an uneven distribution of aid based on changing tastes

Booksarchive

Guide to procuring arts sponsorship published

The text includes illustrative examples alongside practical advice

Columns of glass at the V&A

New glass gallery to open early next year

Booksarchive

Dealers, collectors and Christie’s to fund Chatsworth book

New book will cover the 1,000 Italian drawings in the Chatsworth collection

New Czech tax law to encourage private sponsorship for the arts

Tax will now be deductible for donations, but will a 2% relief be enough to make funding art worthwhile?

Korean art at the V&A

New space sponsored by Samsung corporation

Museumsarchive

Philip Morris Companies Inc. receives award for their continued sponsorship of art from The Whitney Museum of American Art

The selection of the tobacco corporation as first winner is testament to its long-term relationship with the museum

Letters: There was no political interference at the V&A

Restructuring proposals not the result of political interference

A loyal tribute to Queen Elizabeth at the V&A but let’s hope it makes them money

Celebrating Elizabeth’s forty-year reign with robes, regalia, royal presents and memorabilia

Only complete Frank Lloyd Wright interior in Europe installed at the V&A

After twenty years in boxes a friend of the patron’s family funds its display

Private sponsorship rescues exhibition centred on Picasso's Rose Period

While for a time its fate hung in the balance due to insurance costs, the exhibition is now set to begin in Barcelona

Chastleton goes into National Trust ownership

Jacobean Oxfordshire house purchased for £2 million

Economicsarchive

Spain debates new legislation that attempts to induce sponsorship of the arts with tax cuts

If the law is passed, sponsors will be granted legal provisions so they might better circumvent obstacles that complicate art funding

Fundingarchive

Business Committee for the Arts survey suggests that US recession will not reduce art sponsorship

Corporations' trust in art as a tool for generating publicity has not wavered