What would people working in the arts like to see in the upcoming White Paper? Robert Hewison finds out.
It is more than 50 years since a British government announced its intention to make the UK “a gayer and more cultivated country”. That quotation comes fr om A Policy for the Arts: the First Steps, Britain’s first White Paper on cultural policy, published by the first minister for the arts, Labour’s Jennie Lee, in 1965.
Until this year it was the only comprehensive statement of a government’s attitude to the arts and heritage. Ed Vaizey, the minister of state for culture and the digital economy, is putting that to rights. Following a consultation launched in September 2015, he and a small team of officials at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) are working on “a new, far-reaching cultural... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper
It is more than 50 years since a British government announced its intention to make the UK “a gayer and more cultivated country”. That quotation comes fr om A Policy for the Arts: the First Steps, Britain’s first White Paper on cultural policy, published by the first minister for the arts, Labour’s Jennie Lee, in 1965.
Until this year it was the only comprehensive statement of a government’s attitude to the arts and heritage. Ed Vaizey, the minister of state for culture and the digital economy, is putting that to rights. Following a consultation launched in September 2015, he and a small team of officials at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) are working on “a new, far-reaching cultural... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper