Buy a present designed by your favourite artist, decorate your tree with a Bowie bauble, or get a bottle of gin to drown an orchestra’s sorrows. How to help struggling arts venues with your Christmas shopping
In the year of Covid-19, theatres have been shuttered, orchestras unable to play, dance companies stilled. Museums and galleries opened briefly to seriously limited numbers, meaning slashed income from tickets, shops and cafes. Arts organisations around the UK, in short, are in dire straits. So here are some suggestions for midwinter cheer that will also support the arts. Solve Christmas – and help the arts.
We’re all thinking it – and Jeremy Deller has got it printed on to wrapping paper. Proceeds from the artist’s Fuck You 2020 range, made with designer Fraser Muggeridge, will support the community and education programme of Studio Voltaire, a brilliant gallery in south London, as well as charities Young People Matter and Crisis This Christmas. Items in the range, bearing the same message, also include a digital print signed by Deller (£30), a Christmas stocking and a Santa hat.
