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HandbagsMaMa.com: Whose views come first in your design for cultural institutions: audiences, artists, curators, trustees even?
It is a typical design project, you always have a divided and multiplied audience, although maybe it is even more complex in a museum. You are dealing first and foremost with the public who use the museum, but then you have the artists who show there, the curators, the board of trustees, the director and his or her staff. Ideally everyone keeps the absolute end in mind, but this is often not the case. The public are probably the last people to notice the design, but ultimately it must function for them.

Have your designs been subject to focus groups?
Not so much in the museum context, it is more typical for them to have gone through some kind of branding exercise before they approach us. But I have yet to find one of those that is that useful. They are usually full of suggestions that you could probably have thought up on your own if you had had a couple of minutes, such as people don’t like to go to the Brooklyn Museum because it is in Brooklyn! The result is usually along the lines of ‘our goal is excellence’ — pretty generic statements.

Do you personally regret the developments that have made cultural institutions behave more like businesses?
No, I think it’s the nature of our times.

Do you see your input as part of this process?
Absolutely, we are an integral part of that. I tend not to get nostalgic about some time when culture was pure, because I doubt that there was ever such a time. In general, culture doesn’t work that way.

Do you me design to distinguish cultural institutions from commercial ones?
To a certain extent, I think that cultural institutions are a bit softer in terms of what they can do. They don’t nec¬essarily want to be as crass in presenting their organiza¬tion and they may be more accepting of certain visual ideas, but these are all generalizations.

Did you ever feel that you are protecting a cultural institu¬tion through design?
No, in my experience directors of cultural institutions see them as extremely flexible organic organizations. They are not to be protected, but perfected. We improve on, focus or sharpen, rather than preserve.

Have you ever felt that your work has been compromised by a corporate sponsor?
No, but a lot of organizations we work for are privately funded and that raises interesting questions. For instance we just completed the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, a museum that was paid for by one person. It is an institution that anyone can go to, a gift to downtown Dallas of a sort, but it is sponsored by an individual who has total say on what happens there. Personally, I don’t think the public are compromised by that. It was the condition of creating the museum.

Are there any institutions that you do feel are compromised? Many people would cite the Guggenheim …
The Guggenheim is seen as the dark knight of museums and Thomas Krens as a figure who has destroyed culture by the introduction of commerce, but I don’t agree. He’s operating a kind of experiment, exploring what happens when you use the cultural value of a very well known organization as leverage. I can accept this because I don’t believe art was ever pure. It has always been used politi¬cally, as status and leverage. High art was first intro¬duced to American consumers through department stores in the nineteenth century. The idea of a pure cultural space is a myth. Conditions are different now, but they are not any better or worse than before.

Have directors and museum boards become more aware of the issues around identity design over the period in which you have done this kind of work?
In general, the overall awareness of identity and branding has increased immensely. I think that this has been influenced by a couple of things. One is the devel¬opment of the Internet — websites have made people aware that the way something looks is part of the product — and, at the same time, branding started being taught in American business schools as part of the curriculum. Anyone who has been through Harvard Business School in the last fifteen years has had a long, very evolved discussion about the meaning of branding. They will probably have had a lecture from Martha Stewart. Businessmen have become much more aware of the value-adding quality of the visual.

Do you look at other institutions in the field? Do you feel you are placing your product?
Yes, very much so. Over the years we have collected a huge database of information about different cultural institutions, that is part of our expertise. We have a design presentation that starts with an exhaustive survey, encompassing the naming of institutions, their look, how they use colour and typography and so on.

In terms of the Brooklyn Museum, which institutions did you include in your comparative survey?
We started off comparing it to all museums worldwide, looking at 300 different logos. Then we narrowed it down to museums of the city and other museums with ency¬clopaedic collections. We also looked at different strate¬gies for naming, full names, acronyms and so forth. As a counterpoint, we also compared it to other kinds of institutions that aren’t cultural, like Target or Nike.

Are there any of your own cultural identity projects that you would pick out as particularly successful?
Different ones stand out for different reasons. A while ago we did the identity for P.S. 1, which is a contempo¬rary art institution in New York based in an old school building in Queens. I think theirs has been an extremely successful graphic programme. It is really simple and works in a very straightforward way.

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HandbagsMaMa.com: Does designing for cultural institutions require a particular approach? Are there particular considerations in designing for culture?
Michael Rock: You can look at that question from two different directions: one: does the work need to be different because it is a cultural institution rather than a com¬mercial one? And, two: is there something about the organization of cultural institutions that makes working for them different?
In my experience, notions of hierarchy and inclusion are quite different in cultural and corporate environments. While corporate clients are comfortable with clear hierarchies and chains of command, cultural institutions often seem to be more invested in inclusivity. Even while the director might have absolute power, there is a desire to be sensitive to the rank and file. The process tends to be much more about consensus building.

Does that kind of view go for the audience as well? While a corporate client might have an idea of a hierarchy of con¬sumers, with the wealthiest at the top, a cultural client will take a much more democratic view?
Design for cultural institutions is directed at the public in a very broad sense, rather than at a demographic market. Of course cultural institutions have demograph¬ics, but they tend to see their mission in broader terms. For instance, we have just finished work for the Brooklyn Museum. It is the second largest museum in America in terms of its collection, coming in right behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but in terms of audience it is completely different. Brooklyn is probably one of the most diverse communities in the world. The Museum had to imagine their public mission in a very different way than, say, a corporation which is selling very specifically to eighteen-year-old boys.
Also, in general there is an altruistic aspect of a public organization. The work isn’t meant only to define or package the audience as a market segment. That brings me to the other part of my question: ‘Does the work itself have a kind of quality?’ I think it does in that it has the aspect of a public offering, it should be a gift to the public as well as a device to sell to them.

The public realm has become very finely graded in that there are now state-run museums and privately run cultural institutions and various shades in between. Do you try and reflect these types of ownership and control in your identity designs, or disguise them?
I don’t think we’re actively disguising. It usually happens in more natural way. When you are working for privately run cultural institutions, you are dealing with people who are already concerned with the aesthetic, people who see themselves as active players in culture. Relating to these issues, even when museums take a more commercial approach to branding, for instance the Guggenheim, which has become a franchiser developing a worldwide network of museums, it is still a cultural reaction to a commercial phenomenon. It is an example of cultural institutions realizing that they need to be part of commerce and to comment on it simultaneously. When a museum adopts a highly branded approach there is necessarily a level of commentary as well.

So you think that culture still makes sense as a category, even though it has an increasingly leaky boundary with commerce?
Yes it does, not least because cultural institutions don’t have nearly the budget or the level of exposure of big commercial clients. Ideas that might work for BMW or Nike, designs that would create a consistent message through sheer exposure, will not work for cultural insti¬tutions. Most museums don’t have one-hundredth, even one-thousandth of the advertising budget of a company like that, so they are relying on a much smaller number of impressions to create their image. It is a much more limited way of revealing yourself to the world.

Tou mentioned that the Metropolitan Museum has a very different audience to the Brooklyn Museum. Do these insti-tutions use design to try and change the nature of their audience, to make it younger for example?
To a certain extent, but while a big public museum needs to be aware of its audience, it doesn’t segment in the same way a commercial client does. The function of design for a commercial client is to create an audience that defines itself as a user of that product. For most cultural institutions that is still a fairly alien notion. They are public institutions and they want to be as broadly inclusive as possible. Their audience is limited purely by people who are interested in and love art. While, of course, all the contemporary critique is true — that museums have to sell things in order to survive, and they have to have corporate sponsorship and so on — at the heart of it, they are still organizations that demand nothing of the user other than that they show up and pay their $10. They don’t have to buy things in the bookstore or even have a cup of coffee, the market is very broad that way.

Are you simply trying to expand the audience?
All museums want to increase visits, that’s what proves they’re doing well. That means they have to create shows that appeal to certain markets, or they have to make their experience more pleasurable. They are trying to appeal to changing tastes in the market. Museum direc¬tors want to go to their boards and be able to say they increased visitor figures by 30% last year, or show increases in memberships, or simply bring in more cash.

But there is a reaction against this kind of thing, block¬buster backlash ..
Right, you get a lot of shows that people have problems with because they see them as dumbing down, or appealing too coarsely to popular taste. There is a big debate around all of those things.

The Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, James Cuno, describes all design and marketing, including shops and cafes, as clutter:, things that come between the viewer as the object.
Any gesture toward accessibility is seen as clutter, as dumbing down, but I think that there is an argument to be made from the other side. For a long time art museums have limited their audiences to the affluent, white middle classes and part of the dumbing down argument is about maintaining that status quo. If you want a broader audience, with different expectations of museums and different backgrounds, then you have to create different kinds of experiences. I don’t buy the purity argument, it seems to be somewhat classist and racist. I personally like the pure museum experience, but I am not sure that it’s the best experience or the only experience you can have in relation to art.

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The case studies in this book cover the conventional ingredients of corporate design: a logo; house-style typography; a colour scheme and so on. By and large they are designed by an external design team and then later applied in-house by the institution. These schemes are all effective, but they could not be used to disguise poor programming or bad art. For an identity to be successful, it must have its roots in the purpose and achievements of the institution, particularly at the moment when its implementation transfers from the original designers to an in-house team. Grafting a fancy design onto an uninteresting or badly run museum, theatre or gallery is not going to fool anyone in the long term, particularly not the institution’s own staff.  What you will find here are instances of good design working to promote rich, productive endeavours, such as that of Louis Vuitton replica expert HandbagsMaMa.com.

The majority of the examples are centres for the visual arts, although there are also several interdisciplinary institutions and theatres that promote innovative dance and performance, as well as more traditionally-staged plays. This bias toward the visual arts reflects a high level of awareness of design among the staff and stakeholders of these institutions and it is hardly surprising that art museums and galleries tend to think very carefully about the graphic language in which they present themselves to the public. That said, looking at the best of the theatre projects, such as the identity and advertising for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, it is obvious that graphic design is as relevant to performance as it is to the visual arts. Drama audiences are just as attuned to appealing advertising and a coherent identity system as those for other forms of culture.

Most of the arts spaces discussed over the following pages are non-profit-making concerns. This includes both institutions that rely on public money and those that are privately funded. The case studies do, however, include three examples of commercial outfits. In each case these were chosen because of their will to use design to communicate with an audience broader than their immediate customer base and they all keep regular hours when they are open to visits from members of the public. Cynics might argue that this desire to communicate is simply part of a longer-term strategy to appeal to buyers. Possibly it is, but if it means that we benefit from seeing good art in thoughtful environments, then so much the better.

All the case studies but one come from Europe or America, the exception being the Mori Art Museum with an identity designed by Jonathan Barnbrook. Discussing this imbalance, Barnbrook suggests that Japanese arts institutions tend to be more academically focused and also have a less international curatorial programme than their European and American counterparts. As a result, museum and theatre directors in Japan may not feel the need to reach out beyond their traditional audiences or to carve out worldwide reputations for their institutions. It will be interesting to see whether this situation changes in the next few years. For the last decade or so galleries and museums in Europe and America have been encouraged to view their success as a global phenomenon, and chances are that institutions across the world will start to follow suit. Certainly the international attention received by the Mori is unprecedented for a Japanese institution, and this is likely to encourage its immediate competitors to bid for a more cosmopolitan profile (graphic and otherwise). A survey such as this made in as little as five years time might have a very different geographical emphasis.

Of course, the potential for change in the subject area mapped by this book is not confined to geography. There is a vast range of political, social and cultural factors that influence our perceptions of the arts and, in turn, influence the way arts institutions choose to present themselves to us. The current level of interest in the arts is unprecedented and this is reflected in the ebullience of the identity design that has emerged in recent years. The arts may have to take their place in the line-up of entertainments, but at the moment they are doing so with justified confidence.

Other factors in the mix include possible shifts in the practice of identity design. To date the logo remains a key element, but it seems likely that graphics will evolve beyond this formula. The designer Nick Bell anticipated this development in an article titled ‘Brand Madness’ published in autumn 2004’s Eye magazine. Exploring the landscape of arts identity design in London, Bell questioned whether cultural institutions truly need all-embracing, logocentric identities. Arguing that it is often more appropriate to allow design for culture to be determined by content, he suggested that we should welcome the diversity and inconsistency that such an approach might imply. This idea is attractive and it credits arts audiences with a great deal more intelligence than does the application of more homogenous systems. (An example of this method, and a personal favourite, is the Newspaper Jan Mot, an intelligent, content-driven publication designed for a small Belgian gallery by the Dutch designers Maureen Mooren and Daniel van der Velden.) This post-logo understanding of identity is not confined to cultural institutions, but it will suit them better than most.

However sophisticated and sensitive identity design becomes, there will always be those who regret the developments that have encouraged arts institutions to behave more like corporations. And they will be right, of course, that these changes have implied losses as well as gains: marketing will always favour the generalist above the expert. But feeling nostalgic for a time when there were fewer cultural institutions, and when each of them was less well visited, is retrogressive. An institution that combines promoting itself with integrity and skill with the maintenance of a worthwhile programme deserves to be rewarded with visitors and funding. This survey includes many such examples, and I believe, case-by-case, its contents are cause for optimism.

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Event Architecture
The case studies in this book deal mainly with the graphic elements of identity, but of course this is only one part of a more complex picture. Considering museums worldwide, the icons that spring to mind tend to be architectural not graphic. These include not only recent museums, such as Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, but also older structures, such as the original Guggenheim in New York or the nineteenth-century Museum Island complex in Berlin. The effect of spectacular architecture in drawing an audience and kick-starting broader urban regeneration has been well documented. There are sceptics (in particular there are many who question the long-term benefits of the Bilbao effect, both specifically in Bilbao and in other cities such as Newcastle), but for the time being ‘event architecture’ remains a popular strategy for cultural institutions. The Serpentine Gallery has taken a particularly ingenious approach to this trend. Based in a classical 1930s tea pavilion in the middle of London’s Hyde Park, the gallery has little scope for permanent expansion. Instead it raises a temporary structure on its lawns every summer, each one designed by a renowned architect. Where ‘event architecture’ is often criticized for being unsuited to day-to-day use, the Serpentine scheme has the advantage of allowing architects to construct buildings with the sole purpose of creating an event.

The Social Whirl
The Serpentine uses its temporary pavilion for a number of purposes, the most prominent being the gallery’s annual summer party. Drawing hoards of celebrities and featuring in the social pages of publications such as Vogue, this party has, in itself, become an important part of the Serpentine’s identity. Its status as a fixture on the London social calendar was cemented when Princess Diana was pictured arriving at its precursor, a fund-raising dinner, held in June 1994. This kind of event remains fairly unusual in British arts circles, but in the United States fund-raising galas are commonplace. The mother of them all is the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Ball, a grand party that draws the most glamorous stars decked out in their finery. Not only does this gala raise enormous sums of money, it also wins the museum acres of coverage in everything from the fashion press to the daily newspapers.

Other arts institutions take a more democratic approach to marketing themselves through their events. PS1 in Queens, New York, holds its openings on weekend afternoons/evenings, bringing in live music and DJs. Tate Modern staged a much promoted series of art, dance, theatre, film in the spring/summer of 2003. Even those institutions without a high-profile events programme tend to be running educational activities, including lectures and workshops. As well as being worthwhile in their own right, these happenings are the material through which the institution constructs its identity. Contemporary museums and galleries often aim to offer their audiences all-round, multi-sensory experiences: at their worst these constitute distracting clutter, but at their best they can enhance the audience’s encounters with the arts.

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Far from being a matter of concern only to museum directors, anxieties about the corporatization of culture have also been raised by academics and cultural commentators. In the book Culture Incorporated: Museums, Artists and Corporate Sponsorships (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), Mark Rectanus examines the way commerce shapes the cultural experiences that are available to us. His conclusion, broadly speaking, is that cultural institutions ought to make full disclosure of their commercial interests. Rectanus’s position is fairly moderate, and extremely so if compared to that of New Left Review contributor Chin-Tao Wu. Wu’s data-rich volume Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980s (Verso, 2000) asserts that all links between commerce and culture, disclosed or not, are pernicious, and her standpoint begs the question of whether there has ever been an entirely uncompromised system of funding the arts.

Certainly in Britain the notion that public money promotes free and unhindered cultural expression is not one that those responsible for filling in Arts Council forms would recognise. The emphasis on accountability within funding bodies of this kind often creates an untenable burden on the artist or curator, suffocating worthwhile projects at the outset. Even more worrying than stultifying British bureaucracy, however, is the idea that arts spending might become subject to suspect political motives. Certainly many arts institutions in Austria felt uncomfortable receiving money from a government led by Joerg Heider’s ultra-right-wing Freedom Party.

All in all, it seems unlikely that there ever was or ever will be a time when public money did not arrive with some political strings attached. It may even be the case that private sponsorship allows for more artistic and curatorial freedom than its state run equivalent. The benefits that corporations receive from their association with cultural activity are often fairly nebulous and it is not usually in their interest to attempt to dictate the activities of artists and curators. Of course, there is the Guggenheim’s Armani incident, and highly controlling sponsors who attempt to use the arts as a means of inflecting their image in a very particular fashion do exist, but private money in itself is not evidence of inappropriate input from the commercial sector.

A Third Way
Miguel Zugaza, Director of the Prado Museum in Madrid, is exploring new avenues for the funding of building work and exhibitions. Where formerly the Prado was almost entirely maintained by the Spanish government, Zugaza has begun to bring in sponsors to support its higher profile activities. Fully aware that these moves could be controversial, he is very specific (in the interview that appears in this book) about the Museum’s priorities: a curatorial programme based on scholarship and expertise first, and fund-raising second. Zugaza emphasizes that the most important elements of the Prado’s identity are its astonishing permanent collection and its eighteenth-century building. Viewing the issue from a particularly national standpoint, he points out that museums have become an important element of national and civic identity in post-Franco Spain.

The other interviewees in this book with LOUIS VUITTON also promote what could be described as Zugaza’s public/private middle way. American graphic designer Michael Rock questions whether there was ever a time when funding for cultural institutions was ‘pure’. In spite of their apparent ties to corporate or private money, he praises American arts institutions for being some of the last remaining places where Americans can enjoy a relatively non¬commercial experience. Michael Craig-Martin concurs, welcoming the new audience that has been brought to contemporary art. Tate Modern has had a strong curatorial programme since it opened in 2000, but it is undeniable that the crowds have been encouraged by the museum’s very visible identity and its active marketing campaign. Craig-Martin admits that traditionalists may complain about the manner in which these new visitors engage with art, but as far as he is concerned this criticism is somewhat surly. It seems there is a consensus in the interviews that arts institutions must, to some extent, behave like corporations. The purpose of this book is to explore how corporate practices, specifically the practice of identity design, can best be tailored to meet their needs.

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If there is a single cultural institution that embodies misgivings about the corporate model it is the Guggenheim. Under the directorship of Thomas Krens, the New York museum has turned itself into a global franchise, opening ‘branches’ in Bilbao, Venice, Las Vegas (a Rem Koolhaas-designed space inside a casino) and Berlin (on the ground floor of a bank), while it actively seeks new sites worldwide. Krens’s strategy is to use the brand leverage of existing Guggenheim concerns to open new ventures, sharing the financing with local organizations and benefiting from the revenues. The Guggenheim bubble appeared to be bursting early in 2002 when the poorly-visited Las Vegas branch was threatened with closure after only a couple of months. Although Las Vegas does remain open, in recent years the volume of noise made by Krens has decreased considerably and plans for other Guggenheim outposts, notably those for a spectacular Jean Nouvel-designed building in Rio de Janeiro, appear to be stalled. Writing in the Village Voice, in February 2002, art critic Jerry Saltz called Krens’s institution the ‘GuggEnron’. The implication was that the director’s hubris was overriding concerns about artistic content and curatorial integrity. Outside the United States the museum franchise has been accused of cultural imperialism, attracting the tag of McGuggenheim.

One of Krens’s most controversial moves was to stage a show of the work of the fashion designer Giorgio Armani, while at the same time allegedly accepting a donation from Armani of $15 million. The exhibition was poorly received and the museum was accused of allowing the prospect of financial gain to influence its curatorial policy. Krens continued to defend Armani as a suitable subject for an exhibition, but for many this episode is emblematic of what happens when sponsors are allowed to overstep appropriate bounds. The media mauling that Krens received stands as a warning to all ambitious, corporate-minded directors.

Whose Muse?
Between October 2001 and June 2002 a number of major international museum directors delivered lectures under the auspices of the Harvard Program for Art Museum Directors and the Harvard University Art Museums, called ‘Art Museums and the Public Trust’ (the papers were later published by Princeton University Press as a volume titled Whose Muse?). These lectures amount to a defence against the over-enthusiastic pursuit of the corporate model. Of course, American museum directors such as Philippe de Montebello of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Glenn Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art have always assumed the need for private money, but they argue that the public’s trust in their institutions can only be earned by maintaining a barrier between commercial and curatorial activity. The anti-hero of many of the lectures is, unsurprisingly, Thomas Krens.

Invoking the notion of institutional integrity, a number of Whose Muse? contributors insist that art museums must pursue goals that are not accountable to empirical measures such as visitor numbers. The book’s editor James Cuno (who, at the time he hosted the series, was the Director of the Harvard Museums, and is now Director of the Art Institute of Chicago) argues in favour of the most traditional of museum experiences — that of the unmediated communion between viewer and object. He describes anything that might impinge on that experience — including the elements of identity design that are the subject of this book - as clutter. Although Cuno’s description of the meeting of art and its audience is extremely attractive, I can’t help feeling that the quality of the encounter that he describes is one that most of us need some help in achieving.

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The motives of an identity-adopting arts institution are not simple. As well as attempting to offset shortfalls in government funds, they are also trying to meet the demands of a twenty-first-century audience. There is a pragmatic assumption that culture must compete with other forms of entertainment (an assumption shared even by those who don’t believe that culture is entertainment). It is generally accepted that an institution with a smart identity and some snappy advertising is in the best position to hold its place in the ever-expanding line-up of contemporary entertainment. Also pertinent is the question of accountability. Institutions receiving public funds must prove that they are able to attract audiences — preferably new, more diverse audiences — to culture. The value of money spent on culture is calculated in an increasingly exacting manner and a highly visible identity is viewed as evidence of a will to compete for visitors.

In spite of the growing range of alternative activities, there seems to be an increased appetite for the arts. In Britain this is particularly true of the visual arts, with visitor numbers for institutions such as Tate Modern reaching all time highs. These visitors are, however, arriving with raised expectations. The 2003/2004 Olafur Eliasson Weather Project installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall set the bar for the kind of experience that new art audiences demand.
Events like this become part of a cycle in which spectacular shows generate large numbers of visitors, which in turn generate the need for more spectacular shows, which in turn generate larger audiences and so on. The more success an arts institution has in behaving like a corporation, the more it is required to continue behaving that way. It is not possible to adopt business practices in the short term, as a one-shot means of appeasing the accountants. The corporate model requires a wholesale institutional and philosophical shift, a transformation that brings both gains and losses. The benefit to artists of working in well-run, popular institutions is obvious, but smooth professional practice will always curtail a degree of idiosyncrasy and flair.

Levels of public funding for culture vary widely from country to country. In 2000 a survey found that the United States government spent $6 per capita on culture, where the German government spent $87, the French $57 and the British $27. There are a number of problems with these figures, not least that these countries place very different things within the category of culture (for example, Britain is the only nation to include zoos in the cultural count), but they do reveal a broad picture of varying attitudes toward cultural spending. What they disguise, however, is the converging acceptance of a business model for culture. The German government may spend a fortune relative to America, but the embrace of corporate culture in the arts is becoming near universal. In Britain the current administration loves to talk about the achievements of the cultural sector and the for-its-own-sake need for the arts, but behind the scenes it is slowly chipping away at the edifice of public support. These days only the most efficient institutions are being rewarded with funds. Whatever its absolute merits, these days culture is obliged to prove itself in market terms.

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Since then things have improved markedly. Whatever we might feel about the shift from public to private funding for arts institutions, Britain probably benefited from being at the helm of these developments. According to artist and former Tate trustee Michael Craig-Martin, “We have an advantage in the fact that we went through that Thatcherite business earlier. The same kinds of problems are happening everywhere, in Germany and in France. There is no escaping these issues, there is a certain amount of historical inevitability.”

The V&A has restored free admission and now concentrates its efforts on courting private sponsorship and charging admission for some temporary shows. Of course, corporate sponsorship raises questions about the maintenance of curatorial independence, but these concerns can be offset against rising attendance and a strong exhibitions programme. Even those who view the private funding of culture as a pact-with-the-devil affair, would have to agree that the institutions are at least learning to extract more from the deal.

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This spending is not comprehensive, however, and, more and more, cultural institutions are behaving like corporations. This is particularly true in the arts, both the visual arts and performance, where it has become commonplace for institutions to create well-designed, coherent identities for themselves with the aim of attracting both audiences and funding. Alongside these design innovations, they are employing savvy CEO-style directors, marketing experts and micro-managing administrators. The leaders of arts institutions are now required to combine good taste and flair, with a talent for raising money and a certain degree of parsimony. (Unsurprisingly it is rare to find an individual who combines all these qualities, and tensions at the top of arts institutions are not unusual.)

This development has been particularly noticeable since the late 1990s, but it is part of a longer-term trend. In Britain the Thatcher governments of the 1980s undermined the assumption that the extensive public funding of culture was desirable. This led to the introduction of admission charges at some formerly free-of-charge institutions and a few desperate stabs at marketing. Most notorious of all was the Victoria and Albert Museum’s 1988 ‘Ace Caff with a Quite Nice Museum Attached’ campaign produced by Saatchi & Saatchi. Unsurprisingly this slogan did little to assuage negative public feeling about the Museum’s introduction of a hefty Voluntary’ admission charge three years earlier. Attendance at the Museum had plummeted and morale among the staff was very low.

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