In an interview with The Guardian earlier this month, Tony Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera House, called for a ‘foreign policy’ for the arts, with government taking an active role in promoting British arts overseas.
He is quoted as saying that, ‘If we were French we would have a coordinated policy to develop French arts to the rest of the world. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Foreign Office and the British Council need to get together and sort out an artistic policy that gets our artistic excellence around the world.’
