Matthew Taylor sets out the 'ask' and the 'offer' that could form the basis of a contract placing equal responsibility on Government and the cultural and creative sector for achieving more ambitious goals for the arts.
For many years – going right back to my time running ippr – I have tried to encourage a more grown up and rigorous conversation about arts and cultural policy. It’s not that there hasn’t been good work in this area, valuable research, important policy initiatives, passionate debates but yet, added together, it hasn’t added up to a discourse worthy of the importance of arts and creativity to our nation and our lives.
Large and powerful swathes of Whitehall continued to treat the sector as peripheral, confusing and slightly flaky while the sector itself has been slow in developing a case that would stand up next to arguments for other, more obviously essential, forms of public investment.
But in recent years, especially as austerity has bitten, there has been a tangible change... Keep reading on the RSA website
For many years – going right back to my time running ippr – I have tried to encourage a more grown up and rigorous conversation about arts and cultural policy. It’s not that there hasn’t been good work in this area, valuable research, important policy initiatives, passionate debates but yet, added together, it hasn’t added up to a discourse worthy of the importance of arts and creativity to our nation and our lives.
Large and powerful swathes of Whitehall continued to treat the sector as peripheral, confusing and slightly flaky while the sector itself has been slow in developing a case that would stand up next to arguments for other, more obviously essential, forms of public investment.
But in recent years, especially as austerity has bitten, there has been a tangible change... Keep reading on the RSA website