licence fees

The BBC has billions generated by licence fees, that allow's the BBC to fund new media ventures.
This has made them the BBC the biggest content creator in Britain
and its web portal is the sixth most popular news site in the world.
There was 14.2 million unique visitors in January 06 with #1 Yahoo News had 34.4 million?

This system of fee generation is built into the rate and used in New Zealand by local goverment to generate funding for the arts. Japan is another country that has local goverment and courperations that budget for arts funding.

And again I have another random thought #42638194uX20 I would love to see blogger, used / accessed by http://www.writely.com it's has got wusiwug as well as an html editor. And OMG google recently aquired them. Does google do fine art like slipping sartchie?

The Art of Ageing

Saturdays 6 and 20 May

This workshop is an opportunity to explore visual representations of ageing and to consider how these contribute to our understanding of the personal, social, political and economic implications of getting older.

Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination

15 February - 1 May 2006 This exhibition explores the work of Fuseli and Blake in the context of the Gothic. Featuring over 120 works, it creates a vivid image of a period of cultural turmoil and daring artistic invention.