Fundraising Campaign Launched to Save Legendary Filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Cottage

Actors, artists, and art institutions have united in a bid to save the home of the late visionary British filmmaker and activist Derek Jarman. On Wednesday, the Art Fund, a British fundraising charity for art, launched a public fundraising appeal to raise £3.5 million (about $4.5 million) necessary to purchase the property. The house, known as Prospect Cottage, has faced the possibility of a private sale since the death in 2018 of Jarman’s partner Keith Collins, to whom Jarman bequea