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Are We Now To Subject Every Major Arts Donor To A Moral Purity Test?

ISSUES Posted: March 26, 2019 6:17 am

Mark Lawson: “What would count as an acceptable way of having become rich enough to have some spare to dish out to the arts? Sponsorship by BP and Nestlé has been questioned because of environmental or ethical concerns about the nature of the patrons’ business. Airlines, which have consistently been generous to the arts, are now on the wrong side of history, as, in a post-crash era queasy about capitalism, are most makers of money. … And if the funding of buildings and exhibitions is subject to ethical scrutiny, then why not their content as well?” – The Guardian

ISSUES Published: 03.23.19

Read the story in The Guardian Published: 03.23.19

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