If government arts funding falls any more, there won't be any culture left to export.

She has buttonholed politicians about arts funding in the past.

That's fine for places with enlightened universities or civic leaders, but what about the towns where local authorities have withdrawn almost completely from arts funding?

This despite the recession and jitters about what a new cuts-crazed government might do with arts funding.

In recent decades, company sponsorship has become the second leg of arts funding, at least as important as state backing.