ABSTRACT In this review article I critically reflect on the ambitions set out in Arts Council England’s 10-year strategy “Let’s Create”. My reflections are informed by a comprehensive literature review as well as by my ongoing research into the impact of austerity on local authority museum services. The literature surveyed allows for an analysis both of the alignment between the strategy and broader political rhetoric and discourses of austerity and welfare state retrenchment and of the tension between the rhetoric of "Let's Create" and the realities facing local authorities and publicly funded cultural organisations. I argue that the strategy's indirect acknowledgement of the negative impact of austerity policies is obscured by gestures towards diversity, inclusion and cultural pluralism, which leaves difficult questions of how to translate the strategy's ambitions into actual action unanswered. In conclusion, "Let's Create" is found to be a stark illustration of Arts Council England's acquiescence to the politics and discourses of austerity and the marginalisation of alternative values and practices which, as the literature shows, are alive and well within museums and the cultural sector.

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每个人的玫瑰？英格兰艺术委员会 2020-2030 战略和地方当局博物馆——主题分析和文献综述

摘要 在这篇评论文章中，我批判性地反思了英格兰艺术委员会 10 年战略“让我们创造”中提出的雄心壮志。我的反思来自全面的文献回顾，以及我对紧缩政策对地方当局博物馆服务影响的持续研究。所调查的文献允许分析战略与更广泛的政治言论和紧缩和福利国家紧缩言论之间的一致性，以及“让我们创造”的言论与地方当局和公共资助的文化组织面临的现实之间的紧张关系。我认为该战略对紧缩政策负面影响的间接承认被对多样性、包容性和文化多元化的姿态所掩盖，这留下了如何将战略的雄心转化为实际行动的难题没有得到解答。总之，“让我们创造”被认为是英国艺术委员会默许紧缩政策和话语以及替代价值观和实践的边缘化的鲜明例证，正如文学作品所示，这些价值观和实践在博物馆和文化中依然鲜活。部门。