At last the conversation about arts and cultural policy is getting serious, the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts) is going to take it one step further. For many years the RSA  have tried to encourage a more grown up and rigorous conversation about arts and cultural policy. It’s not that there hasn’t been good work in this area, valuable research, important policy initiatives, passionate debates but yet, added together, it hasn’t added up to a discourse worthy of the importance of arts and creativity to our nation and our lives.

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/arts-and-culture-rsa-say-its-time-to-get-even-more-serious