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After a lengthy baited-breath waiting period, the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review that sets public funding levels for 2008-11 was announced.

Gordon Dalton’s piece (Networking Artists’ Networks, a-n Magazine August 2007) showed that the silly season is not limited to the tabloid newspapers.

Bravo, Dave Grimbleby – and thanks for saying what many of us have thought for a long time.

The Crafts Council, the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, has gone through huge changes in the last five years.

This month’s a-n Collection: Country living puts a spotlight on artistic activity in rural locations.

In November, a public liability insurance scheme aimed especially at practising visual and applied artists will be launched through a-n. Here we set out the context for the new scheme and highlight the research by Platform 3 that has informed it.

Chris Brown, Reviews Editor for a-n Magazine, talks to a selection of writers about the practice and pitfalls of taking up the pen.

If Andrew Bryant is “trying to figure out what kind of artist I am”, what is his role as a teacher? His blog seemed to show what I consider is ‘wrong’ with so-called conceptual art of the recent (ie Saatchi) […]

Just a quick note to say well done on developing such an easy to use, and very useful tool. Congratulations! I’m delighted to say that after using four years of self-employed accounts to work out the figures for each of […]

This month’s a-n Collection: Trade-off explores the markets for art in the UK drawing on intelligence gathered at the recent series of NAN Roadshows¹.

Amazed at the power of coincidence, I read with particular interest your On the cover piece about Kerry Harker and in particular the ‘fine art vs applied art’ debate.

A Demos report, published ahead of a Green Paper on the Creative Economy, warns that the Government is ‘confused’ about how to support the creative industries.

The government has recently withdrawn a substantial amount of funding from Arts Council England to pay for the 2012 Olympic Games.

No one likes to be ‘boxed in’; for an individual with all their human complexity to be reduced to a cipher.

Broadband has changed my life. As an artist working mainly with video, I can now access the work of many ‘colleagues’ in a variety of contexts.

Published this month is the fourth in the a-n Research paper series – presenting and distributing across our wide constituency – Sonya Dyer’s Boxed in: how cultural diversity policies constrict black artists¹

I doubt if this letter will get to you, but I hope it does and that you have a chance to read it and seriously consider what I have to say.

Last year I responded to an offer of funding by the Juliet Gomperts Trust (JGT) which was advertised in a-n Magazine.

The arts community were shocked and dismayed by the surprise announcement of a huge 35 per cent cut in the Arts Council England (ACE) Grants for the Arts (GFA) scheme announced on 1 April.

Since November 2006, Arts Council England has been asking all across the land to add their views on the public value of the arts.

Charlotte Frost discusse the Media Mates scheme.

Letters in response to the recent a-n Review of Normal Flora.

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“Art should be recognised as a staple part of our everyday lives like bread, and in that respect it should be ordinary, albeit an extraordinary ordinariness, but no less essential in sustaining life.”