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Article: Public realm.(Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales merges with The Arts and Regeneration Agency)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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The merger of Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales and CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency, Wales has created the largest public art company in the UK. The Arts Council of Wales, which had provided funding for each organisation, encouraged and facilitated the merger. Alun Pugh, Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport, explained that 'the creation of a single public art agency is a positive step forward for art in Wales and I hope that art will become an intrinsic consideration in regenerating our urban and rural environment and communities'. It has now been announced that Wiard Sterk, currently director of CBAT, has ...