An American philanthropist who has donated more than £20 million to the arts in Britain says she’ll return to the United States in protest over the British Government’s “nondom” tax and the “hostility” she has encountered in this country towards foreign donors.
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YBA Artist Commits Suicide
“Angus Fairhurst, one of the original Young British Artists who blazed such a trail through the 1990s, has taken his own life in a remote part of Scotland, it was announced today. He was 41.”
Redefining The Artists’ Place
“Innovation isn’t linear. It operates in a complex system, and that’s where artists live and work. Innovation is what they do with the symbolic forms they create, and artists also have greater understanding about risk taking, about analysis and interpretation, approaching it quite differently from the way science approaches risk, for example. It’s the way artists engage with curiosity that make them innovative.”