As readers of this blog will come to know, I am not convinced that state funding of the arts is an acceptable use of public money. After all most of the world's 'great' works of art were produced before such funding was even available. How a state funded body should choose to allocate its resources is a big enough problem given the lack of information supplied by the absent market, and I am convinced the current bodies have got it wrong.
The Arts Council, quite apart from my general reservation over state funding of the arts, causes me great concern because its allocation of funding does not seem to take demand for the product into account when making their funding assessments. There appears to be too much funding allocated to projects with very limited demand but perhaps not so surprisingly to projects in favour with the bureaucracy apportioning the funding. I have touched on this point before in reference to S4C.
I now find that even those inside the art community agree.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11228143
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