As the old guard moves on, Vanessa Thorpe looks to the future of Britain’s foremost cultural institutions.
For at least a decade, the arts have reliably made headlines in this country. From David Bowie at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Matisse’s cutouts at Tate Modern,Leonardo at the National Gallery, to the queues outside the Vikings exhibition at the British Museum, or the scarce tickets for One Man, Two Guvnors at the National Theatre, Britain has enjoyed a long and happy phase in which, energised by lottery funds, the popularity of even highbrow art forms has seen them leap from the feature pages into the news. And behind this success a team of unfashionably white, middle-aged men have been working away... Keep reading on The Observer
For at least a decade, the arts have reliably made headlines in this country. From David Bowie at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Matisse’s cutouts at Tate Modern,Leonardo at the National Gallery, to the queues outside the Vikings exhibition at the British Museum, or the scarce tickets for One Man, Two Guvnors at the National Theatre, Britain has enjoyed a long and happy phase in which, energised by lottery funds, the popularity of even highbrow art forms has seen them leap from the feature pages into the news. And behind this success a team of unfashionably white, middle-aged men have been working away... Keep reading on The Observer