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Dateline: 13th January, 2008
Artists Condemn British Council A group of 100 visual artists, including Tracey Enim, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota, Gilbert & George, Joanna Lumley, Melvyn Bragg and Antony Gormley, have written a letter to the Guardian condemning changes at the British Council. In our news story of 20th December we reported that "After earlier this year disbanding its advisory panels in the Arts, which were made up of volunteers, the executive board of the British Council has this week decided to to get rid of its departments of film, drama, dance, literature, design, and the visual arts and instead organise its cultural staff into panels with the titles Progressive Facilitation, Market Intelligence Network, Knowledge Transfer Function and Modern Pioneer." In reply to the artists' letter, a spokesperson for the British Council said, "We'll retain specialist expertise across sectors and we're undergoing extensive consultation over the next couple of months with key people from the sector. "Essentially all we have at the moment is some internal restructuring," Venu Dhupa, director of arts for the British Council, told the Guardian, that the Council is "making sure that the arts are a strategic transformation force, because that's when they are at their most powerful."
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