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TATE LAUNCHES NEW PROGRAMME TO INCREASE THE REPRESENTATION OF INDIGENOUS ARTISTS IN ITS COLLECTION
Tate today announced a new initiative dedicated to bringing more work by Indigenous artists into its collection. Building on the success of recent acquisitions and custodianship agreements, this strategy seeks to create a step-change in the number of contemporary artists from Indigenous communities around the world whose work is represented at Tate.
The programme launches with a four-year commitment from the AKO Foundation to fund acquisitions of Sámi and Inuit art from Northern Europe. This continues the AKO Foundation’s generous support of Tate over recent years, including for the exhibitions Olafur Eliasson (2019), the Turner Prize (2021) and Surrealism Beyond Borders (2022), as well as a programme of events at Tate Modern to coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in 2021.
The British Council is considering selling up to half of the 9000 works in its art collection in order to pay a debt of £197m. This is the remaining total from its £250m pandemic-era government loan. Without additional financial support, it is ‘in real danger of disappearing’ the institution’s CEO Scott McDonald told The Guardian. The council is also considering shutting its operations in 30 to 40 countries.
McDonald states that the British Council is committed to paying back the loan but insists that the government must help find a viable solution. ‘I would just like reasonable loan terms of something like 25 years and a lower interest rate’ he said. The Art Newspaper has estimated that the current commercial interest rate applied to the loan amounts to £14m annually.
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Hospital patients and visitors will be able to enjoy the stories behind artwork from across Dorset through a new app.
A new project celebrating 35 years of art at Dorset County Hospital will bring the art straight to art lovers with a collection of stories and sounds that can be listened to via a mobile phone.
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British Council could plug £200million debt crisis by selling art collection featuring masterpieces by Tracey Amin and David Hockney
The British Council may be forced to put its £200million art collection up for sale as a result of ‘financial peril’ which is threatening the institution.
The council is facing £197million in outstanding debt after taking out an emergency £250million loan from the government during the pandemic.
