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With a government spending review impending, the value of culture has had high scale profiling recently.

Nicholas Serota introduced a new arts manifesto – ‘Values and vision: the contribution of culture’, intended to “begin a fresh conversation with the government”1. Serota makes reference to “Arts Council England[’s] increase in overall funding of 78%, which has... enabled the possibility of funding individual artists in a big way”, so the funding of individual practitioners at least gets a mention in that ‘conversation’ regarding the UK’s wider cultural picture. In July’s a-n Collections: Impact of networking we have the second instalment of Jane Watt’s review of Networking Artists’ Networks (NAN). What is strikingly evident from her research is the good value in channelling money direct to artists. The NAN initiative supports grassroots networking activity and with a peer-evaluation structure its investments have enabled wide ranging activity to reach across the UK into Europe and beyond. As Artquest’s Stephen Beddoe puts it: “NAN gets money easily and quickly to good practitioners who are doing interesting, value-for-money projects. You can’t underestimate how much five hundred quid can be...

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