Funding
UK museums suffer as Heritage Lottery grants plummet
Building projects are major casualties as emphasis shifts to supporting smaller, local initiatives
Russian billionaire’s Peri Foundation will keep paying for culture after arrest
It is business as usual, says the organisation’s director, as its founder, Ziyavudin Magomedov, remains in custody awaiting trial on racketeering charges
Bridging the divide: Terra Foundation and Art Bridges fund collaborative programming between major art institutions and regional venues
The MFA, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts are the first institutions awarded grants in a $15m pilot programme
Is the EGO Act a lot of hot air?
A new law bans government-funded oil portraits of officials, but most paintings have been paid for privately for years
The National Gallery’s issue of trust
I only found out by accident how well off the museum really is
The mirage of riches in museums’ vaults
Putting aside museum ethics, Martin Gammon looks at the financial viability of museums deaccessioning their collection as a quick fix for financial trouble
Creative Scotland chief apologises for funding backlash—though questions remain
Arts funder grilled by Scottish parliament over controversial cuts in £99m grants programme
Towner Art Gallery on England's south coast at risk as local council confirms funding cut
Critics of the move include the Art Fund and the broadcaster and Towner chairman David Dimbleby
New Art Fund report reveals 'shocking' state of UK museums funding
Price of Leonardo’s Salvador Mundi, which sold for £333m, represents over half of government’s total financial backing for museums last year
Trump wants to axe NEA and other culture agencies—again
The president’s 2019 budget includes a similar proposal to last year’s failed plan to defund America’s arts bodies
The Getty, the world’s richest museum, hunts for wealthy patrons
Some are concerned that new fundraising drive will lure donors from other Los Angeles institutions
Artists back Nan Goldin’s call to hold Sackler family to account over US opioid crisis
"Maybe the Sacklers don’t care, but we should give them the chance to discuss solutions, and if they rebuff, then f*** them"—Jeremy Deller
Cuban artists crowdfund to create a ‘Havana Biennial for everyone’
Organisers vow to run their own exhibition after government postpones official event
Knight Foundation awards $2.5m in grants to realise 43 Miami art projects
Funding will help bring the Creative Time Summit to South Florida, back a show on the Cuban artist José Antonio Aponte, and finance a “wine club for art” subscription collecting service
Culture is compromised by donations from the Sackler family: we must not accept any more of their money
Anna Somers Cocks on the revelations published in the New Yorker magazine
Business as usual for museums funded by Sackler opioid money?
Beneficiaries of the family’s largesse deflect or ignore questions about the donors’ role in the drugs epidemic sweeping the US
Top Australian donors pull funding from Venice Biennale
Funders are furious about plans to exclude them from selecting the artist to represent the country
Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund awards $22m in grants to activist groups and social programmes
As well as backing arts-focused initiatives, the money will help support organisations working to change government policy
Victoria and Albert Museum secures £15m endowment fund with Saudi donation
Non-profit Art Jameel throws weight behind London museum’s long-term funding campaign
Galleria Borghese launches Caravaggio research centre—with a little help from Fendi
Roman museum aims to become the primary reference for scholarship on the artist
New York Foundation for the Arts expands its mentoring programme for immigrant artists
With a grant from the Ford Foundation, the ten-year-old initiative will now help artists in Detroit, Newark, Oakland and San Antonio
Horniman Museum crowdfunds for new World Gallery—with a little help from its walrus
South London institution wants visitors to feel emotional connection to anthropology collection
Mexican artists pitch in to aid earthquake victims
The well known Oaxacan artist Francisco Toledo, is working with others to collect food and supplies and open community kitchens
Documenta faces yawning €7m deficit, seeks financial help
Kassel city and the state of Hesse pledge to secure long-term liquidity
Museums in Houston reopen after Hurricane Harvey
The Museum of Fine Arts will offer three days of free admission
NEH awards $39m in grants in last round of funding for 2017
The agency, which was targeted for elimination by the Trump administration, supports culture and history projects across the US
Threatened Walsall gallery saved by Arts Council grant
New Art Gallery Walsall plans to form partnership with local university
Bulk of V&A’s £50m extension sponsored by four donors
Exhibition Road project creates new courtyard, entrance hall and subterranean gallery