Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Art Fund membership up 15% despite downturn

7:55 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | | Edit Post

charity that helps museums and galleries to acquire works of art has seen record increases in the number of members of last year

visitors to the museum and gallery supported the British culture, despite the economic downturn. Registration numbers have joined the national fundraising organization, the Art Fund, increasing its membership by 15% last year.

The fund enables regional and national institutions to acquire important works in their collections.

"It may seem surprising when it is next to some of the most urgent causes of charity," said Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund. "However, there was a rapid pulse philanthropic means more people, not just the highest levels, do more to support the galleries and museums. It seems that there is a better understanding of the quality of British life is related to the quality of these things. "
  • Deuchar put downward trend to an impulse to improve communities and the reinvention of the passage last spring of the National Fund of art, allows holders to get discounts and free admission to the art centers.
"When we started this organization, it was large-scale philanthropy and the good of the nation. It has now been replaced by the feeling that it is the person and the world who want to live "he said.

In 2011, the Art Fund supported or committed to support the acquisition of nearly 150 works of art. Property acquired with your help that include portraits of Alex Katz

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editor Anna Wintour, who is now in the National Portrait Gallery and now its popular image, most selling postcards.


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