Art Controversy
Private sector picks up the pieces as UK government cuts art education funding
Reality Bites
The art world, long thought to be immune, is now having to acknowledge urgent realities of pandemics, the climate crisis, wars, energy and food shortages, mass migration, inflation and crime. This month, guest writer Riah Pryor reports on how the legal system struggles to find a consistent way to punish art crimes, with sentences varying dramatically worldwide
Arts education in the UK is under attack yet again. Two years after the former Conservative education secretary Gavin Williamson announced he was cutting higher education funding for arts courses by 50%, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has launched an offensive against “low value” degree courses.
Read More: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/19/private-sector-uk-government-cuts-art-education-funding
Art Controversy
Dramatic moment art collector’s son is arrested for stabbing family maid he believed was a demon
Dramatic footage shows the moment the son of a wealthy art collector was arrested after he stabbed the family’s maid who he believed was a ‘demon’.
Maximillian Bourne, 26, attacked Joselia Pereira Do Nascimento with a kitchen knife at the family’s five-bedroom, £20million home in Justice Walk, Chelsea, on February 25 last year
Police are appealing for information after the theft of two high-value paintings from a house in Penzance.
The paintings by west Cornwall artist Gill Watkiss were taken from an “empty but secure” home in Morrab Road between 1 February and 13 February, according to Devon and Cornwall Police.
The oil paintings, titled Sunday Walkers, Hayle, and Autumn Days, Penlee Park, were worth £6,000 each, the force said.
Both canvases are sized around 70cm by 50cm (27 ins by 19ins).
Art Controversy
Sarah Cunningham: Body found on tracks at London Underground station after search for missing artist
Police say the family of a missing artist have been informed after a body was found on the tracks at a London Underground station.
The last sighting of Sarah Cunningham, 31, was on Jamestown Road, in Camden in north London, at 3am on Saturday.
