Arts institutions in London have been left scrambling after the U.K. government announced last Friday that it will reallocated its cultural funding for the next three years to support organizations in regional centers rather than around the capital. Some venues, including the celebrated theatre Donmar Warehouse in London and the English National Opera, have lost all their government funding, while others will see up to 50 percent of it cut.
“I think the position was made clear when the Secretary of State instructed us to take money out of London. And also encouraged us to take funding from central London to parts of the city that haven’t previously had funding,” the ACE’s chairman, former Tate director Nicholas Serota, said during a press conference. “We’ve just simply had to make some invidious choices about where we fund the most.”
On Friday, November 4, Arts Council England (ACE), the organization that oversees arts funding in the U.K., announced the portfolio of 990 institutions it will be supporting for the next three years, with a budget of £446…
