Recent research on cultural production has drawn attention to significant inequalities. This paper aims to unpack one possible explanation for these inequalities by focusing on the people with ultimate responsibility for arts institutions: the boards of directors. Using data from the UK's Companies House, it analyses the boards of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. It then “hops” to the other organisations with whom arts organisations also share board members, and their directors. While the network of NPOs is relatively sparse, with most organisations not sharing board members with any others, in the one-hop network the majority of these organisations are indirectly connected to one another. In addition to a large number of arts and cultural organisations, this network also contains a large proportion of film funding companies and financial services companies. The most central company in the network, measured by betweenness, is the Royal Opera House, followed by companies associated with significant tax advantages for their directors. Our results raise questions for the governance of culture, drawing further attention to its ties with financial institutions.

最近对文化生产的研究引起了人们对重大不平等的关注。本文旨在通过关注对艺术机构负有最终责任的人：董事会，来解开对这些不平等的一种可能解释。使用来自英国公司大楼的数据，它分析了英国艺术委员会国家投资组合组织的董事会。然后它“跳”到与艺术组织共享董事会成员及其董事的其他组织。虽然 NPO 网络相对稀疏，大多数组织不与任何其他组织共享董事会成员，但在单跳网络中，这些组织中的大多数都间接地相互连接。除了众多的艺术和文化组织，这个网络还包含很大比例的电影资助公司和金融服务公司。以中介性衡量，网络中最核心的公司是皇家歌剧院，其次是为其董事提供显着税收优惠的公司。我们的结果对文化治理提出了质疑，进一步关注文化与金融机构的关系。