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Private sector funding of the arts reached a record £686m in 2007/08, an overall increase of 12% from the previous year, an Arts & Business Investment in Culture survey shows.

Individual...

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US philanthropist and legal scholar Arthur R. Miller has promised a gift of around 1,800 prints by Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi to the British Museum.

The...

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Museums and galleries in England will benefit from grants totalling £4m from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the ...

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Sammy Ofer, the Israeli shipping magnate and philanthropist, has secured the future of the Cutty Sark with a donation of £3.3m.

Ofer, who has shipping business interests in London, served in...

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A music director in the US has pledged US$100,000 of her own fellowship award to establish an after-school music programme for primary school children

Marin Alsop, the new music director of...

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Shipping magnate and philanthropist Sammy Ofer has donated £20m to towards the creation of a major new wing at the National Maritime Museum (NMM), the 'heart' of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage...

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In a remarkable act of artistic philanthropy a collection of postwar and contemporary art worth £125m has been donated to the nation.

The London dealer Anthony d'Offay is giving almost his...

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An Australian former soldier who funded the restoration of the Vatican's Michelangelo frescoes has been named UK Australian of the Year for his philanthropic work.

Michael Hintze has been honoured for...

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A bequest of 18 works of art worth £100m has been made to the National and Tate galleries from the estate of the late Simon Sainsbury.

A reclusive member of the...

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