The UK’s cultural institutions are the boy who cried wolf. Since the early days of the 2010 coalition government’s austerity programme, museums, theatres, and art schools have prophesied the collapse of not only the country’s cultural infrastructure but also the very civilisation it serves. Such hyperbole is what art is made of. But now that the crisis might finally be real, the dramatic overstatements could bring about a chance to rethink the role of institutionally supported culture in society at large.
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