What changes to arts funding should be made given that galleries often employ more fundraisers than curators, asks Stephen Palmer following an Artquest panel discussion.
Led by writer, cultural critic and consultant John Kieffer and DACS chief executive Gilane Tawadros, ‘The funding problem: or, a better way to distribute public funding’ was the first in the System Failure series of conversations, programmed by Artquest. Taking place over the next six weeks at artist-led space Block 336 in Brixton, London, the premise for these conversations is to ask: How might the art world be ‘rebooted’ to better benefit artists.
Chair Russell Martin (Artquest and artist) opened the discussion by asking: “What is the place of public funding in the art world, what does it do right now... Keep reading on a-n
Led by writer, cultural critic and consultant John Kieffer and DACS chief executive Gilane Tawadros, ‘The funding problem: or, a better way to distribute public funding’ was the first in the System Failure series of conversations, programmed by Artquest. Taking place over the next six weeks at artist-led space Block 336 in Brixton, London, the premise for these conversations is to ask: How might the art world be ‘rebooted’ to better benefit artists.
Chair Russell Martin (Artquest and artist) opened the discussion by asking: “What is the place of public funding in the art world, what does it do right now... Keep reading on a-n