Theme: regions and art centres | 28 [scans] Damien Coyle Access all areas | Colm Ó Briain [scans] At times it can be hard to remember, but the landscape for the visual arts and the arts in general has been transformed over the last thirty years or so, mostly for the better. Here Colm Ó Briain traces the winding route. Bridge over troubled waters | Brian Ferran [scans] Troubled times may have set an unruly background to arts funding in Northern Ireland over the past decades, but so too have an official attitudes. Brian Ferran sketches the history, problems and possibilities. Round and round | Liz Donnan [scans] Arts organisations need money, and they rarely get what they need. Liz Donnan describes the experience of one of Northern Ireland's better-known arts centres in its search for the elusive lucre. New critical centres for art in Ireland? | Ian Hunter [scans] What should an arts centre be? Ian Hunter suggests that there are many ways to skin a cat.
Feature articles The best of spaces: the worst of spaces | Gemma Tipton [scans] We all are acquainted with the phenomenon: arts centres where the other arts are primary and the visual arts must find a niche. Patricia McBride, who runs such a space in Donegal, describes how things work there.
