The Art Fund

The Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users. The Fund relies on members' subscriptions and public donations for funds and does not receive funding from the government or the National Lottery.

Since its foundation in 1903 the Fund has been involved in the acquisition of over 860,000 works of art of every kind, including many of the most famous objects in British public collections, such as Velázquez's Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery, Picasso's Weeping Woman in the Tate collection, the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the medieval Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant in the British Museum.

History

The original idea for an arts charity can be traced to a lecture given by John Ruskin in 1857 when he called for the establishment of a "great society" to save works of art for public collections and "watch over" them.

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Stringed puppets dancing,
Drawing flies to the stench
Flesh impaled with wires
Sick, amusing, painful play
Imagination, evisceration
A morbid show
With blood on the wall
Hear people’s call
Chant and applaud
Caged in mocked misery
And audience with bleeding taste
Pulling strings, open sores
Come in,
Come in and catch the art
Barbed wire, embracing like fire
Deforming architecture
Endless desires, clawing pyre
Like a living dissection
Closing ecstasy, a fevered burning plague
Temptations lost control,
Rips apart the victims whole
Artistic patterns remain
Like a puzzle in its chaos start




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Tang Museum, Zankel Music Center, Skidmore Jazz Institute receive NYS Council on the Arts funding

The Record 12 Dec 2024
“With this funding, we can keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible at Skidmore, bringing innovative arts programming to our students, the campus community, and beyond,” said Zhenelle LeBel, ...
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OPINION - At this general election, the hardest game to play is 'spot the arts funding'

London Evening Standard 25 Jun 2024
The parties’ manifestos wax long about areas their leaders think are important for national life — from tax and spending, to defence, pensions and energy. Fervent, if moveable, are commitments on immigration and crime reduction ... .
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Monterey Bay area art institutions to receive $170,000 in National Endowment for the Arts funds

Santa Cruz Sentinel 19 May 2024
Opportunities to enjoy and get involved in the arts help strengthen our bonds as a community and elevate the quality of life of all who live in California’s 19th Congressional District,” Panetta said in a statement.
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Rowan writing faculty receive prestigious New Jersey State Council on the Arts funding (Rowan University)

Public Technologies 18 Mar 2024
... Jersey artists who received funding through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship program, which awarded more than $1.7 million for 2024.
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Maliphant’s world and the arts funding Vortex

British Theatre Guide 20 Jan 2024
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A kiss, a queen and a battered Venus: the Art Fund celebrates 120 years of ...

The Guardian 08 Nov 2023
This week the national charity for art , established on 11 November 1903, reaches its 120th birthday. Here are a few highlights of the great works it has helped to save for the nation ....
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ICYMI: Countil on the Arts Funding for Creative Placemaking Cited as Catalyst in Award-Winning Meadville Greenspace Project (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)

Public Technologies 25 Jul 2023
​A public greenspace project nearing completion in downtown Meadville, funded in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA), has been named a 2023 Great Place in Pennsylvania by the state chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-PA).
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ICYMI: Countil on the Arts Funding for Creative Placemaking Cited as Catalyst in Award-Winning Meadville Greenspace Project (Pennsylvania Department of Aging)

Public Technologies 25 Jul 2023
The PCA's Creative Communities InitiativeOpens In A New Window provides multi-year funding for place-based, community-driven, arts-based projects that serve as catalysts for social cohesion, livability, and community and economic development.
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The Burrell Collection In Glasgow Wins The Art Fund Museum Of The Year Award

MENA FN 13 Jul 2023
(MENAFN - USA Art News) The Burrell Collection in Glasgow was announced as the winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023 this evening at a ceremony held at the British Museum, London. Situated ... .
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Leighton House is a finalist in the Art Fund Museum of the Year (Kensington and Chelsea Royal Borough Council)

Public Technologies 13 Jul 2023
The Art Fund Museum of the Year award celebrates the best of UK museums ... The Art Fund Museum of the Year prize celebrates the rich breadth of culture across the UK's 2,500 museums to shortlist just five.
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National Endowment for the Arts Funds 25 Rural Communities Through Citizens' Institute on Rural Design (NEA - National Endowment for the Arts)

Public Technologies 28 Jun 2023
Citizens and students in Seminole, Oklahoma, joined the Seminole Arts Council to complete Seminole's first community mural project in their Downtown District in October 2021 ... Photo by Jacqi Dill, courtesy of the Seminole Arts Council.
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Five Delaware Arts Organizations Receive Total of $1M in National Endowment for the Arts Funding (The Office of the Governor of the State of Delaware)

Public Technologies 06 Jun 2023
The following Delaware arts organizations have received funding. ... Project-based funding will support opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, the integration of the arts ...
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Five Delaware Arts Organizations Receive Total of $1M in National Endowment for the Arts Funding (State of Delaware Office of Lt Governor)

Public Technologies 06 Jun 2023
The following Delaware arts organizations have received funding. ... Project-based funding will support opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, the integration of the arts ...
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Moore for the Arts: GG’s partners with Mitchell to benefit Friends of the Arts Fund

Mooresville Tribune 28 Mar 2023
More than 55 Don Moore paintings are already on display at GG’s, but during the art crawl, one Don Moore painting will be raffled off with 100% of the proceeds to benefit the Friends of the Arts Fund.
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Matilda the Musical writer wades into the arts funding cuts debate: “patently economically stupid”

London Evening Standard 17 Jan 2023
Dennis Kelly hopes to influence tomorrow’s parliamentary debate on the arts cuts in favour of the theatre that gave him his break ... .

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