Critics who are too quick to cry ‘cultural appropriation’ are curtailing artistic freedom, argues Andrew Doyle.
News
Marylebone Cricket Club and the Academy are running a pilot scheme in primary schools, encouraging boys to take up ballet and girls to play cricket. £30,000 will be invested in dance provision...
News
Researchers have published a damning attack on the use of quantitative measures to assess artistic quality, warning Arts Council England of the potential consequences of rolling out the Culture Counts system.
News
New developments at York Theatre Royal and Liverpool Philharmonic have been identified as important architectural projects in the 2017 regional awards.
News
To prevent the cost of the £16.8m redevelopment escalating, plans to extend the Edinburgh gallery into East Princes Street Gardens have been dropped. The expected completion date has been...
News
An LGBTQI refugee rights group, paid to take part in a performance in Greece, stole the work’s key sculpture to highlight the ‘fetishization’ of refugees and condemn the high cost...
News
Plans submitted to Westminster City Council could see the Society of London Theatre’s TKTS ticket booth in Leicester Square revamped as a two-storey structure featuring a café and a roof-top...
Arts People
Theatre journalist and critic LYN GARDNER has joined the editorial team at The Stage as Associate Editor. In her new role she will continue to write her theatre blog, which she published for The...
Arts People
MIRIAM RANDALL is joining Watershed, Bristol’s film, culture and digital media centre, as the organisation’s first ever Executive Director. She leaves Lighthouse in Brighton, where she...
Arts People
JANE MCCLOSKEY, Dean of Faculty of Creative Industries at the University of South Wales, will become Chair of the board at National Dance Company Wales in September. She was previously a founder Non-...
Arts People
Previously Commissioning Editor on the arts desk at the Daily Telegraph, BERNADETTE MCNULTY has joined the i newspaper as Deputy Arts Editor.
Arts People
The role of Chair at Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA), the UK centre of the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People, has been taken up by KATE CROSS, Director of The Egg...
Arts People
Aakash Odedra Company has announced the appointment of ANU GIRI, Executive Director of Dance Umbrella, as its new Chair. Outgoing Chair RUTH BATES will remain on the board.
From issue 304
Feature
Wales is two years into an ambitious national initiative to improve education outcomes by embedding creative approaches to learning in schools. Nick Capaldi reports on progress so far.
Feature
Arts organisations’ failure to devote proper resources to lifelong learning will lead to the sector falling behind, warns Michelle Wright.
Public funding allows Germany’s theatres to experiment, provoke and cover controversial political topics such as the refugee crisis, says Emily Goodling.
Arts People
Fundraising from trusts and foundations is a more sociable job than you might think. Development Manager Gina Fletcher takes us through the steps of her rewarding career.
Mark Robinson reflects on Arts Council England's quality principles for work with children and young people – are they more useful for planning than measurement? And what happens when primary school children re-write them?
Tristram Hunt has questioned the rush to digitise our public art collections. Oliver Smith reports on whether it’s really worth the effort.
News
The refurbished arts centre will open next week with a new 115-seat auditorium, a café bar, and new changing rooms and toilet facilities.
News
The audiobook platform will work with drama schools and theatre professionals to support new and existing theatre talent. A $5m (£3.89m) transatlantic theatre grant will fund live and in-studio...
Case study
A European Union-funded dance project won ‘success story’ status from a panel of experts for its impact, creative approach and the inspiration it gave others. Carole Blade tells the story.
Case study
The financial imperative to sell tickets can lead to a ‘bums on seats’ mentality, but a different approach has helped Mac Belfast grow its schools audiences and enhance its reputation. Melissa McMinn describes two initiatives.
We need to stop limiting what we identify as ‘Black work’ to theatre that explores ‘Black issues’ and recognise that anyone can tell universal stories, argues director Tanuja Amarasuriya.
With the creative industries bringing vast sums into Britain, headteacher Dr Bernard Trafford cannot understand why the Government is championing an EBacc that is relegating creative subjects.