Making an exhibition of yourself
13 September 2012
As Tate Modern and its sponsor Ernst & Young prepare for a major new show, AT finds out how accountancy firms - large and small - can give a new meaning to ‘business culture’ by sponsoring fine art
Art in public collections eats money. Storage and display, cleaning and restoration, cataloguing and research all cost, and it is increasingly the case that museums and galleries need to find funding from a diversity of sources.
In the UK and EU, governments (and public money projects like the lottery) still make the biggest contribution, but the balance is...