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Article: WARNING: stitch-up ahead; As candidates are interviewed today for the Arts Council chairmanship, should the quango be allowed to survive?
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2003
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Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT
AT appropriate intervals during the course of today, four persons of moderate distinction will roll up at the Culture Department to be interviewed for chairship of Arts Council England (ACE), a body whose continued survival is a mystery to students of social evolution.
The Arts Council was set up in 1945 as a brainwave of the economist John Maynard Keynes, who convinced the Churchill and Attlee governments to regenerate British culture by investing small amounts of public subsidy in its larger performing companies. For three decades or so the Council functioned as an impartial culture bank, establishing this country for the first ...