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What the National Gallery staff cuts reveal about the state of arts funding

By Adam Behr, Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University

London’s National Gallery has launched a “voluntary exit” scheme for staff to address an £8.2 million deficit, with the possibility of redundancies to follow. The news bodes ill for cultural institutions and cuts, in contrast to the recent announcement of additional cultural funding from the UK government.

If the National Gallery – one of Britain’s leading…

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