Culture Vultures.(Culture Vultures: Is UK Arts Policy Damaging the Arts?)(Book review)

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Culture Vultures: Is UK arts policy damaging the arts?, ed Munira Mirza, Policy Exchange, London, 2006, 129pp, pb, 0 9551909 0 8.

It will soon be ten years since New Labour came to power. During that period, cultural policy and the public funding of the arts that flows from it has gone through a profound transformation. Through the DCMS, publicly subsidised culture has experienced an unprecedented shift in emphasis in its relation to state funding, driven by the government's desire to see the arts play an important role in contributing to what previously would have been seen ...

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