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Following the news that Museums Sheffield are to lose the central funding that they have benefited from since 2004, they are now rallying public support to make the case for culture in the UK's fourth largest city - visual art in particular is "grossly underfunded" in the city
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Arts Council England announce £60m to be shared over three years by 16 museum partnerships and consortia including those in rural Cumbria as well as major cities, Manchester, Tyne and Wear and Bristol. Sheffield Museums and the East Midlands lose out ...>> 
The 'unhelpfully vague' National Planning Policy Framework must " address social, environmental and economic demands on land supply on an equal basis." Arts bodies welcome the Communities and Local Government Committee's call for arts and culture to be included in the definition of sustainable development ... >>
Artist's Resale Right to be extended to heirs and beneficiaries from January 2012 - leading artists welcome the Government's decision... >>
Ten years of free admission to National Museums is celebrated on Dec 1st - "Over this decade of universal free entry what has developed is of enormous importance .....>>
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- VAGA, The Visual Arts and Galleries Association, is a UK-wide professional network for all who work in the presentation, production and development of the visual arts.
- For twenty years VAGA has provided a voice for the visual arts, representing and promoting the contemporary visual arts sector to Government, policy makers, funders and opinion formers.
- Sharing knowledge, furthering good practice, stimulating critical debate, supporting individual professional development, horizon scanning and acting as a catalyst VAGA works to keep contemporary visual art at the heart of civil society.
- The UK’s contemporary art sector leads the world. Join VAGA as an individual or an organisation and help, in these demanding times, to keep it that way >>
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