Culture select committee latest: 600 funding rejections to come

Read all about it in Rowenna Davis's piece. Aside from the large number of organisations that will be unsuccessful in their attempts to get Arts Council England funding, and the fact that there will be no appeal other than by judiclal review, other points to notice are these. Arts Council England will have £3m to look after libraries compared with the £13m that the MLA had. And Liz Forgan, ACE's chair, said she was "not ruling out" selling works from the Arts Council Collection, which is loaned out to galleries nationwide, but said it should only happen to maintain the collection itself, "not to pay the rent".