leAD  LUND. The first members of the right-wing nationalist Sweden Democrats (SD) party to be elected to the country’s parliament are attacking the government’s cultural policy. They are demanding that instead of supporting exhibitions of abstract or conceptual art the state should focus on cultural history. “Taxes are being spent on exhibitions that the public is not interested in, for example non-figurative art. Instead we should focus on values that create a feeling of togetherness,” Erik Almqvist, a spokesman for the SD, told The Art Newspaper. He is one of 20 SD candidates who won seats at the September election. Before that the SD was only represented at local level...READ MORE
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video  The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund, now in its 8th year, has enabled Tate to acquire works by Lorna Simpson, Jimmie Durham and Julius Koller at the 2010 Frieze Art Fair. Sponsored by Le Meridien hotels, the fund totalled £120,000 this year and employed Professor Daniel Birnbaum as it's guest international curator. With interviews by Jean Wainwright..
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