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The British art campaign trying to halt the ‘snuffing out of culture’
Designer Katharine Hamnett and the head of the Contemporary Art Society hope to save an art scene verging on Covid-induced collapse
15 March 2021 • 5:00am
In the End We All Succumb to the Pull of the Molten Core (2016) by Glenn Brown, acquired by CAS
Credit: Edgar Laguinia
Over the last 110 years, the Contemporary Art Society (CAS) has worked vigorously to get works by modern artists into our national collections. It boasts a dazzling selection of firsts: the first Barbara Hepworth to be acquired for the nation going to Bristol, the first Grayson Perry going to Stoke-on-Trent, and so on.