Culture minister Tessa Jowell has suggested that Arts Council England looks to its own house to make spending cuts. Charles Morgan examines its record so far?
Arts Council England (ACE) published two sets of accounts last year. It did its best to ensure that nobody noticed. You might have expected that the first annual report of the new Arts Council for the year 2002/03 would have warranted a bit of a fanfare. Instead it crept out, somewhat belatedly, on 27 January 2004. This... more