A few of the weightier links on today’s arts cuts…
A round-up on photography cuts/rises from the British Journal of Photography…
“Photography galleries and organisations that will receive increased funding from ACE: Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool): +15.4%; The Photographer’s Gallery (London): +10.4%; Redeye Photography Network (Manchester): +55.7%; Photoworks: +2.5%; Impressions Gallery (Bradford): +5.1%; Focal Point Gallery (Southend-on-Sea): +157.3%.
Photography galleries and organisations that will see their funding cut in part: Autograph: -2.2%; Rhubarb Rhubarb (Birmingham): -14.2%; Photofusion: -6.9%; De La Warr Pavilion (Sussex): -6.0%.
Photography galleries and organisations that have lost their ACE funding: Side Gallery (Newcastle), Hereford Photography Festival (West Midlands), Pavilion (Leeds)”
Fin Kennedy digests the impact of the changes for theatres/playwrights
How the New Art Gallery Walsall is handling the cuts
The Jewish Chronicle on the lack of funding to the London Review of Books