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Arts Council Cuts

by Sam Thorne

Here’s a quick list of some of the winners and losers from the visual arts section of the National Portfolio Organisations list.

Here is the NPO list as a Google doc

Here is the Guardian‘s blog about Arts Council cuts, with live updates coming in throughout the day.

Also, congratulations on these new NPOs: Auto Italia, Studio Voltaire/IntoArts, Phoenix Arts, Bow Arts Trust, Peer, Stanley Picker Gallery, The Drawing Room, UP Projects, Workplace Gallery, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Spike Island, Project Space Leeds.

UP
Firstsite, Colchester: 28.2%
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire: 74.8%
Derby Quad: 13.1% 
Nottingham Contemporary: 2.3%
The New Art Exchange, Nottingham: 22.6%
Art Monthly: 20.9%
Artangel: 31.0%
Book Works: 25.1%
Camden Arts Centre: 27.0% 
Chisenhale Gallery: 11.3%
Contemporary Art Society: 93.0%
Cubitt: 28.8% 
Live Art Development Agency: 31.3%
Matt’s Gallery: 12.5%   
Resonance fm: 80.7%
Serpentine Gallery: 31.2% 
Showroom Gallery: 16.0% 
South London Gallery: 127.3%
Space Studios: 22.2%   
The Photographers’ Gallery: 10.4%   
Triangle Arts Trust: 12.1%
Whitechapel Gallery: 25.3% 
MIMA: 167.8%
National Glass Centre: 87.5%
Audio Visual Arts North East: 48.9% 
Cornerhouse: 18.9% 
Grizedale Arts: 29.6%
Liverpool Biennial: 20.4%
Towner Art Gallery & Museum: 98.8% 
Turner Contemporary: 20.6% 
Spacex: 47.4%
Site Gallery: 18.9%
Yorkshire Artspace: 69.3%   

DOWN
Institute of Contemporary Arts: -36.8%
Institute of International Visual Arts: -42.2%
The Otolith Group: -24.7%   
Third Text: -45.2%
FACT: -2.3%
New Contemporaries: -6.9
Aspex Visual Arts Trust: -51.8%
Arnolfini Gallery: -2.3% 
Plymouth Arts Centre: -2.3%   
Ikon Gallery: -2.3%

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    Sam Thorne is associate editor of frieze and is based in London.