AvatarAnnette Clancyflipped into Arts Management15 hours agoBritain’s art institutions face death by a thousand cuts. Why are they just putting up with it?verified_publisherThe Guardian - Charlotte HigginsIn the 1960s, two American psychologists coined the phrase “learned helplessness”. They had found that if you repeatedly gave an animal an electric shock from which there was no means of escape, the unfortunate creature would simply lie there and whimper – even if you later changed the parameters, …
AvatarAnnette Clancyflipped into Arts Management2 days ago‘The stuff was illegally dug up’: New York’s Met Museum sees reputation erode over collection practicesverified_publisherThe Guardian - Spencer Woodman, Malia Politzer, Delphine Reuter and Namrata SharmaIn the village of Bungmati, Nepal, above an ancient spring, stand two stone shrines and a temple. On the side of one of those shrines is a large hole where a statue of Shreedhar Vishnu, the Hindu protector god, used to be. Carved by master artisans nearly a thousand years ago, the sandstone relic …
AvatarAnnette Clancyflipped into Arts ManagementArtists in UK public sector making far below minimum wage, survey findsverified_publisherThe Guardian - Ben QuinnArtists working in the public sector are struggling to stay afloat amid a culture of low fees, unpaid labour and systemic exploitation, research shows. A survey of people engaged by everything from flagship galleries to smaller projects found an overall median hourly rate of £2.60 an hour, …
AvatarAnnette Clancyflipped into Arts ManagementCoventry city of culture trust enters administrationverified_publisherThe Guardian - Jessica Murray Midlands correspondentThe trust responsible for overseeing legacy projects from Coventry’s year-long UK city of culture celebrations has entered administration. It has faced financial difficulties for a number of months and in October received a £1m loan from Coventry city council after reporting “short-term cashflow …
AvatarAnnette Clancyflipped into Arts ManagementFresh doubts raised over future BP funding of British Museumverified_publisherThe Guardian - Esther AddleyFurther questions have been raised about the future of the British Museum’s controversial sponsorship deal with BP, after the museum said the two parties had no meetings or correspondence about renewing their funding arrangement for more than a year before their most recent contract expired. The …
AvatarAnnette Clancyflipped into Arts ManagementArt fraudster jailed for trying to sell 15 forgeries at Madrid auction houseverified_publisherThe Guardian - Sam Jones in MadridA Spanish court has sentenced an art collector and fraudster to four years in prison for trying to sell 15 fake works, including a forged Edvard Munch print and a copy of Roy Lichtenstein’s Whaam! diptych, at a Madrid auction house. The provincial court in Madrid heard that the defendant, named as …
