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Brian Sewell appeals for Dragons Den-style arts funding

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Art critic Brian Sewell says it is time to kill off the Arts Council and replace it with Dragons Den-style funding bids, organised through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

He says this would allow smaller groups to have as much chance of funding as the "rich and powerful" larger institutions.

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