WHY Collect?, a report on museum collecting by historian Sir David Cannadine, commissioned by Art Fund and the Wolfson Foundation, calls for increased investment in museums and their collections.
The report "highlights the ever-widening gap between the spiralling prices of works on the international art market and the limited acquisition funds available to museums and galleries in the UK."
Cannadine’s analysis of museum and gallery collecting traces its history from the 1830s to the present day, and is accompanied by 11 case studies which explore various facets of the social and cultural impact of collecting.
Cannadine cites the £333m recently paid for Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
It says the museums of the UK have experienced a decade of diminished funding as an example of the cost of art.
The morale, confidence and the numbers of curatorial staff, it says "have been in serious decline for some time".
www.artfund.org
THE Assembly Festival is working with Scottish theatre companies Grid Iron and Stellar Quines on the production of their new show Bingo! which premieres at Assembly Hall on the Mound, Edinburgh on 6 March.
This marks the first-time Assembly has programmed shows at the venue outside the festival season in August.
William Burdett-Coutts, the director of Assembly Festival said: "Assembly is committed to investing in Scottish theatre year-round.
"Since 2016 and the launch of the ART (Assembly Roxy Theatre) prize we have been working more and more with Scottish theatre companies out-with the Festival.
"This year, with the extended use of Assembly Hall, we are delighted that we will be able to present much larger-scale theatre and new work to Edinburgh audiences."
Bingo! is directed by Stellar Quines’ Artistic Director Jemima Levick, and runs from 6-17 March.
www.assemblyfestival.com
THE Tramway in Glasgow and Lux Scotland are to present a series of works by the American-born, Glasgow-based artist and filmmaker Margaret Salmon.
This will be the largest presentation of her work to date, and her first solo exhibition in Scotland since 2006.
Margaret Salmon works on 16mm and 35mm film.
A special performance and screening event of Salmon’s latest film Mm (2017) will take place on 24 February, with live music from the Scottish post-punk band Sacred Paws, who created the soundtrack for the film.
Mm was commissioned for Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2017.
www.luxscotland.org.uk
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