Painting a pretty picture
Updated on 26 January 2007
Middlesbrough is the latest industrial area looking to spruce itself up with a major art project.
Picture this: you're a council running a town better known for industry than culture, and in sore need of a little of regeneration magic. So what do you do?
In recent years, the answer in a swathe of towns across Britain has been to sink prodigious amounts of lottery money into an arts project.
The latest, Middlesbrough's Institute of Modern Art - MIMA for short - is opening tonight.
Plenty more, from Margate to Wakefield, are in the pipeline. But with some high-profile failures already causing headaches for their sponsors, how do you ensure regenerative, as well as artistic success?
