UK's culture sector faces real-term funding cuts impacting museums, arts programs & British Council. Concerns rise over future of arts education and international cultural connections. Cuts affect daily operations, capital projects and global network.
Museums grapple with ethical questions on displaying human remains. Exhibits explore colonial acquisitions, provenance research, and repatriation. Galleries consider respectful spaces for remains and ancestor rituals.
For a recent show about China’s Bronze Age, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco invited a group of Bay Area content creators who specialise in textile and costume design for a private tour with the exhibition’s curator.
The Brighton pavilion has been a conservation nightmare ever since the early 19th century, when the architect John Nash completed the transformation of a relatively modest classical mansion into a fantasy Oriental palace for the wildly extravagant Prince Regent, the future George IV.
