News and events

Visual Arts organisations unite to call next Government to action

Organisations across the visual arts have come together to provide key policy recommendations for the next UK government to enact to help sustain and support the UK’s visual arts and artists.

• 28 June 2024

DACS celebrates 40 years of protecting artists' rights

Artists, gallerists and politicians come together to celebrate 40 years of promoting artists’ rights

• 7 June 2024

Venice Agendas x DACS

The first in a series of free public debates and performances programmed by Venice Agendas across the UK this November. The event featured the panel discussion 'Crossing Boundaries: The Right to Speak', followed by a reading from artist Katrina Palmer.

• 11 November 2015, 6-8pm
• DACS 33 Old Bethnal Green Road London E2 6AA

The New Economy of Art: Debate 2

Our second public debate in The New Economy of Art series. Speakers Stella Ioannou, Andrea Phillips and Ben Tufnell debated public funding and private sponsorship in visual art, and the impact of these sources of funding on artists and their practice.

• 4 March 2015, 6-8pm
• DACS 33 Old Bethnal Green Road London E2 6AA

The New Economy of Art: Debate 1

The first in a series of three public debates from DACS and Artquest to launch the book 'The New Economy of Art'. This debate focused on the place, purpose and function of art school education and its contemporary use in training a new generation of artists.

• 3 December 2014, 6-8pm
• DACS 33 Old Bethnal Green Road London E2 6AA

Instituted by Artists

This event looked at the methods and projects that artists employ to disrupt—and mimic—traditional institutional structures for their own ends, be they artistic, practical or financial.

• 13 June 2012 - 13 June 2013, 6:30-8pm
• Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Market Matters

The second debate in The New Economy of Art series explored the complex and overlapping motivations behind various kinds of ‘art market’ from commercial galleries, private dealers and auction houses to art fairs, online selling and gift economies.

• 14 March 2012, 6:30-8pm
• London

What are we worth? Artists and the Economic Crisis

A debate on how artists can create income in support of their practice in a period of dramatic economic, social and technological change.

• 18 October 2011, 6:30pm
• Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

The Economy of Art

What value does art have financially, socially and culturally? How can we measure the intangible benefits of the visual arts in financial terms?

• 12 November 2009, 6:30-8pm
• Club Row Arnold Circus London E2 7ES