Gregor Muir: 'Sorting out the ICA is without question a challenge...'

Among his imminent challenges will be making up the shortfall left by the Arts Council's cuts, under which the ICA's funding will decrease from £1.3m a year to £900,000 by 2015. Years of financial peril, including salary savings of £1m over the last year, have taken their toll on the institution's fiscal clout.

The private sector can provide part of the solution. Muir's contacts have clearly already helped, with the addition of 30 big-name "patrons", or regular benefactors, since he joined. Those patrons now include the supermarket heir Alex Sainsbury and art-world luminaries such as Harry Blain, founder of central London gallery Haunch of Venison, and the collector Anita Zabludowicz."  [Read Full Article]

Published by:  The Independent
On:  08/29/11
Website:  http://www.independent.co.uk/

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