The arts have banked on corporate sponsorship, but the City played its own role in causing cuts to our funding. And those organisations who accept cash from oil? They’re simply destroying the environment
For some 30 years now, many of us in the arts have prided ourselves on our skills as conmen. We can find the money, wherever it may be. And we can take it. And run.
It might not be the ideal situation. But ideal situations rarely come along. And Robin Hood isn’t such a bad thing to be. It’s often exciting to seem to be speaking the language of whichever funding body, foundation or corporate body we’re dealing with, while all the time telling ourselves that once we’ve got our hands on the cash we can carry on making exactly the same art that we’ve always wanted to make.