Funding
How radical transparency saved a US museum
Kate Casprowiak Scher, the Bellevue Arts Museum’s new permanent director, explains that candour about the institution’s finances helped bring the kunsthalle in suburban Seattle back from the brink
National Endowment for the Arts awards more than $110m in grants to US organisations
Visual-art projects receiving support include a new Agnes Denes work in California, a Duane Linklater commission in New York and a public collaboration to help heal Indigenous generational trauma in Alaska
Jacob Lawrence’s painting series on Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture to be conserved thanks to $1m grant
The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has received a grant from the Terra Foundation to get the 41 paintings ready for their first public exhibition since 2010
Welsh pub serving beer to open at museum outside Cardiff
The Vulcan Hotel, which closed in 2012, has been rebuilt on site brick by brick
Will funding crisis in UK councils lead to art sell-offs?
Sales of art collections may be forced on English local authorities that are technically bankrupt following cuts in grants from central government
How much should museums pay artists for events such as the Whitney Biennial?
Compensating participants for group exhibitions is an important but taboo subject, as is the fee amount institutions provide
Museums in the firing line as UK council funding crisis bites
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
Happy 100th! The Morgan Library and Museum gets birthday gifts totalling $15m
The money will go towards the institution’s endowment and operational expenses
The hangover after the museum party: institutions in the US are facing a funding crisis
As the baby-boomer generation of major donors pulls back or dies off, museums are struggling to attract their heirs’ interest
National Galleries of Scotland facing ‘a very real challenge’ as report reveals continuing financial strain
A new dossier shows how those running the organisation are struggling to “find a path to a balanced budget”
As Iceland braces for the winter, museums lobby for more storage
Fifteen years since Iceland’s banking crisis, funding cuts have left the nation’s art in a state of potential peril
Raac and ruin: museums search for unsafe concrete—but can they afford repairs?
Institutions are scrambling to identify whether their buildings contain the potentially dangerous material
Eight US cities receive $1m grants for public art projects tackling climate change, homelessness and more
The third edition of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Public Arts Challenge is supporting projects across the country, from Honolulu to Philadelphia
Yana Peel: 'I celebrate anything that is there to bring the arts to audiences'
Chanel’s global head of arts and culture tells us how she is reshaping the brand’s philanthopy
Jasper Johns’s ‘mutual aid’ organisation for artists receives almost $9m from the estate of Los Angeles gallerist Margo Leavin
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been selling works donated by visual artists to fund those working in experimental forms and performance since 1963
Commissioners appointed to oversee Birmingham city council as debt crisis puts museums in firing line
The group, brought in by UK housing secretary Michael Gove, will oversee the council's accounts following the announcement earlier in September that it was facing serious financial difficulties
UK Art Fund announces £1m grant bonanza to boost diversity and inclusion
The funds will benefit organisations including Glasgow Women’s Library and Studio Voltaire
Previously free, some UK museums are starting to charge as cost of living crisis bites
The principle of free admission to museums is being eroded, as entry fees are introduced to balance budgets
University of Brighton to close Brighton Contemporary Centre for the Arts citing ongoing fee freeze, ‘soaring energy costs’ and ‘generationally high inflation’
First exhibition in the south coast city for Turner Prize-winner and Brighton resident Helen Cammock has now been cancelled
National Endowment for the Arts gives $103m in grants to organisations across the US
The NEA's second round of grants for fiscal year 2023 supports a wide range of exhibitions, partnerships and programmes
Art market wobble: what happens if banks go bust?
Plus, hip hop in Baltimore and Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez
'A new model for cash-strapped public galleries? How England's Baltic filled its empty halls with Hew Locke's Procession'
To survive this economic crisis, we must build new networks between public and commercial galleries
Henry Moore Foundation provides financial lifeline for UK artists during cost of living crisis
Rapid response funding provides "relief" in the face of soaring bills, artists say
Brutal cuts to London arts organisations as national funds are moved away from capital
“We’ve had to make invidious choices”, says Arts Council England’s chair, Nicholas Serota, as funding portfolio for 2023-26 announced
Is England’s arts establishment set for a revolution?
Arts Council England are due to announce its regularly funded National Portfolio organisations this October, in line with a new strategy
The UK's cost of living crisis has hit its museums and heritage sites—and the worst might still be to come
Economic instability and rising energy prices threaten many institutions, while emergency funding made available during the pandemic is no longer accessible
Russia boosts arts funding as sanctions start to bite
Vladimir Putin’s deputy chief of staff will put $12.1m towards helping cultural projects that have been targeted due to “their patriotism and loyalty to the country” since the invasion of Ukraine
British Council workers strike over planned cuts that could reduce arts team by up to 20%
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
France launches €1m fund to help Ukrainian and ‘dissident Russian’ artists fleeing war
Culture ministry initiative will offer three-month residencies and an emergency telephone service
Why endow a museum wing when you can fund archives? Hauser & Wirth Institute gives $700,000 in grants to preserving historical records
Newly announced funding for the Studio Museum in Harlem and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute follow 2021 grants to small nonprofits in Chicago, British Columbia and Hong Kong