UK gallery curator calls for public art project in response to Covid-19

Ambitious national programme is needed to support artists and institutions, says Serpentine Galleries’ artistic director

An ambitious multimillion-pound public art project is needed to support cultural institutions during the coronavirus outbreak and help create a new generation of artists, according to one of British art’s most respected names.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, said the project would need to be similar in scale to Franklin D Roosevelt’s Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) and Works Progress Administration (WPA), which the president set up during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

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