Visual Arts
Charitable Instincts
Increasingly, art and artists are being used as financial tools for charity groups and organizations. Charity art is any art…
Art for the Market’s Sake?
Even the most idealistic and independent artists in the US must rely more and more on private sources of funding…
Art in China – the lotus is in bloom
That China will become the next world superpower has been the argument of economists for decades, and few now doubt…
An Ancient Prejudice: Women Artists and the Struggle for Equality
In 1989, New York feminist collective The Guerrilla Girls dared to ask the question, 'Do women have to be naked…
Creative Clusters Conference 2005: Unlocking the secrets of a creative economy
The creative and cultural industries are now big business. Sources suggest that, creative industries in the UK are growing twice…
Is it war on terror or war on the arts?
Last year, Arts Hub UK carried the story of US citizen Steve Kurtz, a Buffalo University Professor of Art, who…
When disaster strikes
In a post 9/11 climate, preparation in the face of an emergency is an integral part of government administration and…
Missing, presumed stolen
Last August, the art world stifled a collective scream of frustration when two paintings were stolen from the Munch Museum…
Arts Institutions - Just in it for the money?
What's the world coming to when the Guggenheim starts selling the rights to its name? Yes this icon of the…
When Artistic Vision encounters the Bottom Line
Who hasn't dreamt of running their own gallery or museum? To turn a vision based in idealism into reality? So…