Funding
Turmoil at Honolulu’s Bishop Museum
Fears abound for the collection-rich, cash-poor Hawaiian institution
The party’s over as New York’s top museums feel the pinch
MoMA, the Met and the Brooklyn Museum are planning to reduce staff numbers to help balance the books
As protests rage, will BP ditch the BM?
The museum stands to lose around £500,000 a year when the current partnership agreement ends
Centre Pompidou’s chief US fundraiser awarded France’s top honour for boosting acquisitions of American art
The Beaubourg gallery also appoints a new curator tasked with discovering young Chinese artists
Italy squanders €150m in EU grants
Sicily and Naples miss out on culture and tourism grants to protect crumbling cultural heritage sites due to chronic mismanagement
German museums under threat as cities seek to balance their books
Local authorities are targeting cultural spending as a way of cutting their deficits but are facing vocal opposition
Recession takes a heavy toll on Brazil’s art scene
Some museums have closed their doors as other ailing institutions look to the Olympics to raise funds
BP ends 26-year sponsorship deal with Tate
Oil company blames “challenging business environment” rather than protests
Football outscores culture as Qatar spending slumps
Museum layoffs and project suspensions gather pace in Qatar as oil revenue collapse continues
Bede’s World medieval museum could re-open after funding meltdown
Local charity in talks to take over heritage site dedicated to the venerable religious scholar
Spending review signals grim divide in UK
No cuts for national museums but regionals face ripple effect of reduced funding for local authorities
Tunisian foundation backs research for artists’ projects
But eight recipients are not required to create a finished work
Hundreds protest oil sponsorship at Louvre during UN climate change conference
International activists arrested after spilling fake oil in the museum entrance
Private fortunes drive Beirut’s museum boom
Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano and David Adjaye get involved as donors step in to fill the funding gap
Colchester’s flagship arts centre on the brink
The £27m, Viñoly-designed Firstsite gallery faces closure without regular government funding
US election 2016: which of the presidential frontrunners gets the arts?
Our guide to who’s running for the White House and what they have funded—or cut
Residency programme extends its global reach, from Beijing to Brooklyn
Davidoff Art Initiative sends contemporary artists from the Caribbean to Europe, Asia and the US
Lottery fund is a success, but grants are much harder to get
Report praises most of the first 100 projects to be completed, but the days of enormous largesse are gone
Volkswagen’s extended sponsorship deal to include Greater New York survey at MoMA PS1
MoMA is ‘das museum’, German carmaker says, as it expands support to cover digital education, exhibitions and events for the next two years
Paris mayor gives city’s decaying churches a Hail Mary—to the tune of €80m
But heritage groups say the funds fall far short of the real cost of restoration
Five more divisive years for museums and art galleries
The new Conservative government has so far kept quiet about its plans for the arts but the signs point to a fractious battle for resources between national and local institutions
British Museum to send star objects to the Gulf
Assyrian reliefs among the 500 loans earmarked for long stay in Abu Dhabi
