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Budget cuts across Europe - New galleries for IWM - Art Fund Collect launched - MLA business report
NI’s culture budget faces £14.5m cut
Proposed cuts will impact on staffing levels, opening hours and public programming, warns National Museums Northern Ireland
Rubens sketch to stay in Britain
Spoliation Advisory Panel rules Jewish banker sold sketch to repay debts and not because of Nazi persecution
Vaizey: government will not interfere in council decisions
But councils should seek advice from ACE or the HLF before significant decisions, says culture minister
Local authority budgets face average 4.4% cut
Eric Pickles sets out settlements and publishes new Localism Bill
National Conservation Centre shuts doors to public
Closure of centre to public reflects "harsh reality of cuts", says Fleming
ACE confirms MLA transfer
Good that principal programmes all going to ACE, says Museums Association director
Hunt announces £80m philanthropy fund
The culture secretary unveils match-funding initiative to encourage philanthropy for the arts
World news digest
Australia: Sydney-based lawyer Ken Reed has bequeathed 70 works to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The collection, which is estimated to be worth A$7m, includes 25 old master paintings and 25 pieces of 18th-century European porcelain. Greece: The €38m Onassis Cultural Center opened in Athens last month. The cultural complex has been funded …