A US audience full of late twenty-somethings gasped, laughed, cheered, ooh’d and ahh’d through a classical music performance – of video game music. Might this ambience revive audiences for classical music? suggests Jeffrey Tucker.
A collaboration between IBM Brazil and a Brazilian gallery has resulted in an audio guide powered by artificial intelligence which allows visitors to ask paintings a question – and hear their responses, writes MuseumNext.
Three national museums – the National Gallery, the Natural History Museum and the National Railway Museum – have all tested or deployed tracking software, which could help curators and managers make better decisions. James O Malley reports.
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The development programme, funded by the Oak Foundation, will support six artists to receive mentoring and create work to premiere at one of the two venues.
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Bristol Music Trust’s venue said the “toxic” name – linked to the 17th Century MP Edward Colston, who earned much of his money through the slave trade – will be dropped...
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North Devon Council has entered into a 12-month contract with Parkwood Theatres to reopen the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple and the Landmark Theatre in Ilfracombe, which closed in January after...
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Ottilia Ördög goes back to her roots to name the inspirations in her life.
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£1.5 million renovation plans for Thamesmead’s Lakeside Centre include a “major cultural hub” for local artists, funded by the Mayor of London’s Regeneration Fund and...
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Calls for the creative industries to remain a priority during Brexit negotiations, and for new policies to provide economic security and address the “skills time bomb” in the sector, are among the proposals.
(IN FRENCH) TF1 reports on La Seine Musicale, the Paris concert hall which opened last week, tracing the site’s development from manufacturing heartland to ‘musical temple’.
Robert Hewison and Nicholas Penny ponder whether curatorial experience is necessary, or even desirable, for a museum director in the modern age.
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A letter, jointly penned by UK Theatre and Society of London Theatre (SOLT), calls on political parties to assess the damage caused by local authority arts cuts and protect cultural education.
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Asbestos will be removed, the stage will be given a new safety curtain and repairs will be made to the building as part of a Liverpool City Council investment, which will see the venue close until...
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The national funder is told to focus on financial resilience, transparency and digital engagement in the first review for seven years.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Moira Sinclair argues that a resilient arts organisation starts not with a robust business model, but a really clear sense of what you are there to do.
The subjects in the BP portrait award shortlist may all be female, but this is no “all-female line-up”, says Marisa Bate. All three painters are men – and dressing up sexism in this way must not be deemed progress.
Esme Ward visits the European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk, and reports on a museum / archive / library / Trade Union HQ which has much to teach the UK about civic engagement and action.
Developers have realised that creating cultural spaces in new apartment blocks helps them sell homes and create communities. Nicola Venning tracks the trend across properties in the capital.
How will record shops, digital music and royalties be affected by the UK’s departure from the European Union? The BBC’s Robert Plummer profiles an industry ‘braced for Brexit’.
A US-wide project committing theatres to diversity ahead of President Trump’s inauguration has failed to deliver, or to hold itself accountable, writes Daniel Park.
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(IN DANISH) Five district orchestras in the west of the country will receive an additional one million kroner (£120k) funding each by 2021, which will be taken from Copenhagen Philharmonic, the...
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(IN GERMAN) €7m is destined for the Berlin Philharmonic, and increases are expected for other orchestras, as the city reassesses a ten-year contract detailing which organisations receive arts...
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The Creative Society’s ‘Creative Job Studio’, to be based at Somerset House in London, will focus on unemployed people aged 18 – 24 and support them to break into the creative...
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Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre is a listed building but its front-of-house areas were in need of a facelift. Adrian Jackson explains how making the theatre more welcoming also made the bars more profitable.
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Presenting social issue dramas and storytelling events in a pub in Newport is reaching audiences looking for entertainment rather than art. Julie Benson tells the story.