As the business of Brexit gets going in earnest, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy is sounding, for many, more like a requiem, writes Robert Hewison.
85% of Arts Council England's £367m funding for music is going towards opera and classical music and institutions. It's scandalous that they can't find just £0.5m to challenge the threat to grassroots music venues, says Michael Dugher.
The technology revolution is barely touching the world of culture, says Ed Vaizey, who would clear a gallery and give it over to tech startup businesses if he ever became a museum director.
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Plans to redevelop the Ceri Richards Gallery at Swansea University's Taliesin Arts Centre and turn it into a student activity and study space have been given the go-ahead. Campaigners against the...
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A cross-artform project aims to address the challenge of encouraging people to engage with new or experimental work and find effective approaches to attracting and retaining audiences.
Are museums that use public money entitled to express political opinions? Anabel Roque Rodríguez rails against neutrality and the dangers associated with it.
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Luton Borough Council has painted over some concrete bollards that a local arts group had painted to look like Minions from the Despicable Me films, urging people not to engage in "illegal...
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More than 400 paintings by Durham miners will go on permanent display in a new museum dedicated to the work, which will open next month in a former bank building in Bishop Auckland.
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“Godfather of British theatre” Sir Peter Hall CBE, has died aged 86. Founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, former Director of the National Theatre and Artistic Director of...
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Jacksons Lane Arts Centre has backed out of proposals to provide a home for Highgate library service after a feasibility study showed the sale of the existing library site would not cover the costs...
Rural areas don't attract arts donors at the same level as big cities, but philanthropists Peter and Sarah Finn recognise the impact their investment can have beyond the urban centres. Mike Scutari explores their motivations.
As a winning artist rejects the cash that comes with the BP Portrait Award, Jonathan Jones asks, if artists don’t want BP’s money, how can the National Portrait Gallery keep offering it?
David Taylor puts forward eight reasons why every orchestra is going to scrap sheet music and go digital.
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Nick Gibb has justified excluding the arts from the English Baccalaureate, on the grounds that the EBacc should be "sufficiently small to enable pupils to specialise in different things"....
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Councillors are divided over whether the city should back its neighbour's bid, claiming that Leeds provided minimal support when Bradford made an unsuccessful bid for the 2008 title.
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A three-year evaluation has commended the Arts Council England programme as a source of learning for community arts, but raised concerns about its long-term sustainability.
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Arts leaders have hit back at the Regulator for “behaving like a mobile phone company who refers a dispute to the debt-collector without engaging with the client”.
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GCSE pupils are choosing not to study art and design becasue of government messaging around the EBacc, a survey of Norfolk schools has suggested.
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The Garage in Norwich and Travelling Light Theatre Company are among those to receive a grant from the one-off £40m fund.
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The £57m Birmingham Conservatoire, the first purpose-built music college to be built in the UK since 1987, has been formally opened by musician Julian Lloyd Webber. With five public performance...
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After 23 years with theatre company Out of Joint, founding Director MAX STAFFORD-CLARK will leave the company to focus on his international freelance work. The announcement follows the appointment of...
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MAX ROBERTS, Artistic Director at Live Theatre for the past 30 years, is stepping down. He will take on a new role as Emeritus Director at the theatre and continue his work as Visiting Professor of...
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The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) has appointed two new members to its senior management team. Associate Leader of the Orchestra BILL CHANDLER becomes Director of Artistic Planning and...
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TONY HALES, Chair of the Greenwich Foundation and a board member of the Welsh National Opera, will take over as Chair of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) when DAME COLETTE...
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MARK LAVILLE is taking up the role of Senior Lecturer at Falmouth University, where he will co-ordinate the new degree in Theatre and Performance. He will step down as Artistic Director of the...