Arts Council England funding

New York Times: "On Dec. 14 Josie Rourke, the artistic director of the tiny Bush Theater in West London, received an unwelcome Christmas present. It was a letter from the Arts Council England, the government-financed body that doles out subsidies to the arts, announcing plans to cut the Bush’s public funding by some 40 percent — to about £300,000 (roughly $588,000) a year, from £480,000 ($942,000)."