Ed Vaizey and Yinka Shonibare say the future of arts funding lies in a Smart Fund remunerating creatives for work shared on electronic devices.
The nation’s concerns throughout the Covid crisis have been most urgently focused on emergency services. We are all acutely aware of the strain that our frontline health workers have faced and gained new admiration and respect for other vital sectors of our society. Teachers, supermarket workers, delivery services and retailers have all been heroic in their capacity to adapt and serve our communities.
Many of us have also developed a deeper appreciation for other parts of our communities and lives that were perhaps taken for granted until they were taken from us. Central among these have been arts and culture.
The UK’s creative industries, which contribute more than £111 billion to our economy annually and were growing five times faster than the general economy before the pandemic, provide us with so much of the interest and joy that makes life worth living... Keep reading on Evening Standard.
The nation’s concerns throughout the Covid crisis have been most urgently focused on emergency services. We are all acutely aware of the strain that our frontline health workers have faced and gained new admiration and respect for other vital sectors of our society. Teachers, supermarket workers, delivery services and retailers have all been heroic in their capacity to adapt and serve our communities.
Many of us have also developed a deeper appreciation for other parts of our communities and lives that were perhaps taken for granted until they were taken from us. Central among these have been arts and culture.
The UK’s creative industries, which contribute more than £111 billion to our economy annually and were growing five times faster than the general economy before the pandemic, provide us with so much of the interest and joy that makes life worth living... Keep reading on Evening Standard.