Talk:Arts Council England

The criticism section states:

The Arts Council England funds one of the largest prizes for contemporary artists and curators in the UK, with a total fund of £250 000. The awards, titled the deciBel Awards, are only open to contemporary artists in the UK who are Black British and Asian British. In 2006 the Awards were given to artists Bernd Behr, Rosalind Nashashibi, Harold Offeh, The Otolith Group, Hiraki Sawa, and Lynette Yiadom Boakye, each receiving an award of £30 000.

Maybe I'm being stupid, but what's the criticism there? Chob 10:56, 15 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

User 69.128.216.92, you hijacked my comment to add "Mabe you are. I wonder...?" Before I continue, a few things: 1. Learn how to use Wikipedia and add your comments separately 2. Sign your comments

My point in the previous comment is that simply stating that the Arts Council awards a prize to Black British and Asian British artists is not in itself a criticism, unless you are a racist. If you knew how to write in an encyclopaedic manner, it would read something like "ACE has been criticised for awarding a prize to Black British and Asian British artists, which many (including the Commission for Racial Equality) regard as racist/segregatory etc", citing your references. Chob 14:00, 10 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Reserving places for blacks and asians, regardless of whether there is one or a hundred better qualified whites than the man or woman specially favoured, is just as racist as (if less immoral than, which is a different thing) banning blacks and asians from membership. Abberley2 (talk) 20:15, 14 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

I've toned down the obvious bias of the music section, and removed the POV tag, but I still have a problem with the fact on which it hinges. No doubt it spends more than 90% of its music budget on classical music, but surely not on opera alone. It gives a huge amount to orchestras, and there are far more of them than there are opera houses. It also supports chamber music, choirs, and ballet music, if that is treated separately from orchestral music. Abberley2 (talk) 20:26, 14 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

With the abolition of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in 20111/2012, ACE is set to take over some of the MLA's responsibilities (such as the Designated Collection scheme.) This page could then do with being reviewed in the light of these changes.Parkywiki (talk) 02:57, 27 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

I see that between July 2009 and May 2010, a user called User:Artscouncilcraig - presumably an Arts Council employee - made multiple changes to this article, including mass deletion of a Criticism section. (This partly explains why the article currently reads somewhat like an Arts Council brochure!)

This is in clear breach of WP:CONFLICT - organisations & individuals are not allowed to edit articles about themselves. Hence I have reinstated the main deletion, which was the Criticism section. I suggest the Arts Council makes no further edits to this article. Ben Finn (talk) 23:17, 18 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

I've updated the Criticism section seeing as how the "funding landscape has improved" with 3 refs - I would suggest that the 3 ^{[citation needed]}s can now be removed - any objections? --DadaNeem (talk) 06:04, 1 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

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