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NO MORE FREE LUNCH?\u00a0<\/strong>Today, the UK\u2019s culture secretary,\u00a0Lisa Nandy<\/strong>, introduced a proposal to consider charging foreign tourists an entry fee to national museums in a bid to address lackluster funding for the arts, the\u00a0Financial Times\u00a0<\/em>reports. In addition to revenue from museum ticket sales, lawmakers will also consider a hotel levy, both of which were recommended in a review of Arts Council England by former Labour MP\u00a0Baroness<\/strong>\u00a0Margaret Hodge<\/strong>. Nandy told the\u00a0FT\u00a0<\/em>that the government is exploring \u201cthe potential opportunities that charging international visitors at museums could bring.\u201d National museums have been free to all since 2001, as part of a policy credited with boosting tourism, and opinions remain divided on the question. For now, at least, UK visitors can rest assured: any changes to the existing system are contingent on a new, universal ID scheme needed to differentiate foreign visitors from British citizens. Until then, enjoy your free ticket.<\/p>\n FUNDING FEUD<\/strong>.\u00a0Following a sustained protest campaign by Canadian artists and art workers, led by the group\u00a0Artists Against Artwashing (<\/strong>AAA), the Canada-based\u00a0Azrieli Foundation<\/strong>\u00a0is ending its support for the\u00a0Toronto Arts Foundation<\/strong>\u00a0(TAF), the\u00a0Art Newspaper<\/em>\u00a0reports. Protesters allege that the Azrieli Foundation is funded by \u201cgenocide and land theft.\u201d However, both the foundation and TAF said the termination of the funding agreement was not connected to the protests. AAA sees it differently. \u201cThis victory comes after two years of organizing and protest,\u201d the group said earlier this week. The Azrieli Foundation, a charitable organization tied to Israel\u2019s largest real estate company, called AAA\u2019s accusations \u201cbaseless\u201d and said it \u201ccondemns the false, hateful, and willfully misleading mischaracterizations of our work and our organizations.\u201d It added that it is \u201ccommitted to finding new ways to collaborate in the future\u201d with TAF.<\/p>\n \n\tThe first-day sales report is in for\u00a0Art Basel Hong Kong<\/strong>, with plenty of cash flowing\u2014especially in blue-chip gallery booths\u2014but confidence trickling through the aisles more slowly. [ARTnews]<\/p>\n \n\tCould a skeleton recently found beneath the nave of a 13th-century church in Maastricht be the remains of the\u00a0Count d\u2019Artagnan<\/strong>, who famously inspired the hero of\u00a0The Three Musketeers\u00a0<\/em>by Alexandre Dumas? [L1 nieuws]<\/p>\n \n\tA 77-year-old Jewish woman from Laatzen, Germany, is seeking damages for what she describes as an \u201cantisemitic insult\u201d following the exhibition of an artwork by the Indonesian collective\u00a0Taring Padi\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0Documenta<\/strong>\u00a02022, which was later removed after its imagery was deemed antisemitic. [dpa]<\/p>\n \n\tThe outsider artist\u00a0Henri Rousseau\u00a0<\/strong>(1844\u20131910), also known as Le Douanier (\u201cthe customs officer\u201d), was not the \u201cna\u00efve\u201d Sunday painter he has often been portrayed as, according to a new reading of his practice at the\u00a0Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Orangerie<\/strong>\u00a0in Paris.\u00a0[\u00a0Le Monde]<\/p>\n \n\tThe\u00a0Artizon Museum<\/strong>\u00a0in Tokyo has unveiled a new outdoor commission by Australian artist of Chinese heritage\u00a0Lindy Lee<\/strong>, as part of its Sculpture Project. [ArtAsiaPacific]<\/p>\n DIVE IN, THE WATER\u2019S WARM<\/strong>.\u00a0Free studio space for 30 artists for a year\u2014and plenty of water for inspiration\u2014is what a new San Francisco Bay project called\u00a0Art + Water<\/strong>\u00a0is offering, starting this fall, the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>reports. More than 100,000 square feet of empty, century-old warehouse space on San Francisco\u2019s Embarcadero waterfront is being converted into a new exhibition space, art school\u2013apprenticeship program, and community events venue by local writer\u00a0Dave Eggers\u00a0<\/strong>and artist and educator\u00a0JD Beltran<\/strong>. The initiative will match 10 established artist-mentors with 20 San Francisco\u2013based artists who want to learn from them\u2014all for free. Artists can apply until\u00a0April 6\u00a0<\/strong>. Eggers, who trained as a painter as a student, said the project was a response to \u201ca problem that everybody talks about endlessly here\u2014the mass exodus of artists from San Francisco over the last 20 years.\u201d He added that Art + Water is designed to be \u201ceconomically accessible, demystifying, and welcoming\u2014like, \u2018Here, this is how we do this. You can do it, too.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/market\/uk-considers-charging-museum-entry-morning-links-1234779003\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BritishMuseum.jpg?w=1024″] Good morning! The UK government is exploring the option of charging foreign tourists for entry to national museums. The Azrieli Foundation maintains it did not end funding for the Toronto Arts Foundation over Gaza-related protests. Art Basel Hong Kong day-one sales are in. 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