American artist Jeff Koons’ promise to donate a major sculpture to Paris to honour the victims of recent terror attacks is billed as a coup – but will it benefit the artist more than the country, asks Rachel Donadio.
Case study
Constructing The Bridge Theatre from scratch has allowed the team to implement new box office technology and e-commerce best practice from inside the arts and beyond. Libby Penn tells the story.
Arts People
From a member of Haymarket Theatre’s youth theatre to Artistic Director of The Dukes, Lancaster, Sarah Punshon reveals the details of her career so far.
Feature
Why do boys tend to give up dance classes when they reach their teens? Kate Laho and Natalie Holasz discuss the findings of a recent survey conducted by The Place.
Feature
Fresh from her participation in a creative climate leadership course, Harpreet Kaur discusses how the arts have a critical role to play in the climate change debate.
Feature
Making it to the top in the arts world requires confidence and clarity in your goals. If you’re lacking either, coaching sessions may help, writes Steph Vidal-Hall.
News
The Fundraising Regulator has backed charity Bow Arts Trust’s claims that the £90 a month 'donations’ it took from a tenant on a live-in artist studio scheme were made voluntarily, despite concluding there was no supporting documentary evidence and accepting that the payments formed part of the monthly rent.
News
An interim report has found more than 1.4 million visitors attended cultural events and activities in Hull during the first three months of its year as UK City of Culture, giving the city an economic...
News
Nearly 100 artists and cultural workers met with Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop on Monday to begin a five-month consultation on Scotland’s new National Cultural Strategy, which will tackle...
Feature
Programming both Cantonese and western opera, the Hong Kong Arts Festival has a challenge when it comes to audience development. Tisa Ho shares her strategy.
News
The number of National Portfolio Organisations will increase to 831, as museums, libraries and new ‘Sector Support Organisations’ join Arts Council England’s portfolio.
News
None of the participants in a digital arts accelerator programme designed to help cultural organisations attract commercial investment were able to convince investors that they could deliver sufficient financial returns.
News
35 creative, cultural and heritage organisations from across the UK have been awarded a combined €3.2m in funding.
Arts People
Jorge Lopes Ramos and Persis Jade Maravala take us on a whirlwind tour of a week in their hectic, colourful lives at ZU-UK.
News
The Fundraising Regulator is reportedly ‘running on its reserves’ after failing to raise enough in the first round of its levy. It is set to raise £1.75m, which is £500k short...
(IN DUTCH) Do tourists from Spain or Canada spend more time in Dutch cultural institutions? And why do so few Belgians and Germans visit the country’s museums? Thomas van Huut and Gretha Pama analyse attendance data.
The Centro Botín in Santander, designed by ‘starchitect’ Renzo Piano, aims to be as invisible as possible from the city centre and to serve the local community as its primary mission.
News
(IN POLISH) The Szczecin Philharmonic follows Teatr Polski in Warsaw and the Silesian and Mazovian bands in signing a contract with the government department, which pledges to jointly fund the...
News
The former Andrews Lane Theatre has been sold for €4.4m to investors who plan to build a 115-bedroom hotel on the site.
Artists can’t be absolved from their role in property speculation and skyrocketing rents. Heather M. O'Brien, Christina Sanchez Juarez and Betty Marin offer a guide to challenging gentrification.
News
A new academic report says that shifting cultural policy to enable people to be creative and make their own culture would be a fairer use of public funds and lead to greater equality.
News
Systemic failures in recruitment and professional development are leading to skills shortages and a damaging lack of diversity among theatre workers, according to a new report.
News
The newspaper has published a small acknowledgement that Opera Holland Park, on which the council allegedly “lost” £2.5m, has operated independent of council funding since 2015.
Feature
If you’re an introvert, don’t listen to advice telling you to change: you are awesome and you will succeed, advises David Taylor.
Could a retired diplomat’s plan to use the sports marketing model to fund dance really work, asks Lisa Traiger.