The Guardian view on 80 years of public funding for the arts: more vital than ever | Editorial
Arts Council England has been much criticised in recent years. A new chair offers hope for a weary cultural sector“I do not believe it is yet realised what an important thing has happened,” the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote in The Listener in July 1945. “Patronage of the arts has crept in. It has happened in a very English, informal, unostentatious way – half baked if you like.” He was referring to the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music…
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