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“Art is not just about the money,” says Shadow Culture Secretary Harriet Harman in Commons debate on the arts and creative industries in the UK.

A new membership scheme from The Photographers’ Gallery aiming to nurture the next generation of art collectors and philanthropists, launches tonight. We talk to Director Brett Rogers about the project, and about future prospects and challenges as the organisation celebrates the first anniversary of its reopening.

Peter Heslip, Arts Council England’s new Director of Visual Arts, oversees a portfolio of 144 funded visual arts organisations and leads on museum funding in London. Two months into his new job, and on his first day in the office after a trip to Venice, we talk to him about supporting artists, communicating with the public and the realities of the current funding environment.

In a major speech, the Scottish Government’s Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop has defended the idea of art for art’s sake and attacked the UK Government’s focus on the economic value of culture.

The first results of AIR’s UK-wide Paying Artists Survey – which focuses on artists’ experiences of publicly-funded galleries – reveal low earnings, miniscule or no fees at all for exhibiting, and shrinking production budgets.

An attempt to give a Champagne bottle full of polluted water to the CEO of Shell is part of a wider campaign against the oil industry’s sponsorship of the arts.

Seventeen visual arts consortia encompassing 52 organisations – including a-n – have received nearly £2m in Catalyst funding to support initiatives to boost philanthropic giving to the arts.

The What Next? conference in London on 29 April brought together some 650 arts professionals as part of a new movement to reassert the value of the arts in society. Kwong Lee, Director of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, shares his thoughts on the day.

The first What Next? conference on 29 April included a video contribution from Sir Ken Robinson, speaking from Los Angeles. But don’t worry if you missed it – here it is, courtesy of YouTube.

The eighty-strong Artists’ Bond opens its doors to another forty members from 1 April. But, as founder Ellie Harrison describes, anyone looking for a practical funding scheme would do well to look elsewhere.

Camden Arts Centre is setting the stage for a day of spectacular fundraising events this Saturday, as the site is transformed into the bohemian seaside home of fictional modernist Finchley Arkwright-Keslake-Essendine.

Plans for a new gallery in Leicester gather momentum following Arts Council England’s £600,000 cash injection.