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The bipartisan spending bill for the current fiscal year – which is expected to be approved by US Congress this week – includes $150m for the National Endowment for the Arts, marking at...
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The winner of the Glyndebourne Opera Cup, which will be broadcast on Sky Arts, will win £15,000 and a role on stage at one of the world’s great opera houses.
Creativity is key to the jobs of the future, but cuts to arts education mean students aren’t developing the skills they need. What can we do about it? Jennifer Tuckett has a few ideas.
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Plans to turn the former Royal High School – which has been disused since the 1960s – into a music school and arts venue have been revealed by the ‘Perfect Harmony’ campaign,...
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Cornelia Parker, the Turner-nominated artist who publicly backed Green Party MP Caroline Lucas in 2015, has received a £17k commission to cover the election and produce a piece of art that will...
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(IN FRENCH) About 60 arts organisations and unions are to march in opposition to the far-right candidate’s “anti-democratic ideas” and “rejection of the other”, ahead of...
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A drive to boost the recognition of women’s artistic and economic value is at the heart of an initiative that will help female artists showcase their work and collaborate at music industry festivals.
Both French presidential candidates – centrist Emmanuel Macron and the far-right Marine Le Pen – have culture sections in their policy proposals and values. Victoria Stapley-Brown dissects them.
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A notice put up in staff rooms at Tate Modern and Tate Britain asked staff – many of whom are paid below the London living wage – to “put money towards a sailing boat” as a...
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A £30k, 40-seat venue has been built in a Dorset care home to present “old fashioned kinds of shows” to residents. It is believed to be the first purpose-built theatre in a care...
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Levels of arts engagement in England have been static for the past decade, and have fallen significantly among the Asian population, according to a new Government report.
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A consultation by Hackney Council is being seen as an “unprecedented opportunity” to secure the place of arts and culture in the district.
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The Founding Director of Situations, CLAIRE DOHERTY, is to take up a new post as Director of Arnolfini in August.
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The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) has selected SUE STURROCK, former Director of Communications at the Royal College of Music, as President for 2017/18.
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Six new trustees are to join the Theatres Trust Board in July. They include: PAM BONE, an independent adviser specializing in planning and resource development for the creative industries; PAUL...
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Executive Producer of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra since 2013, MANUS CAREY has been appointed Director of Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music and will join the organisation in...
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Recent controversy at Shakespeare’s Globe made little mention of a key point raised by Dominic Dromgoole: the importance of £5 tickets. Nicky Goulder says the incoming artistic director should fight to keep them.
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(IN ITALIAN) Working in partnership with the Italian Government, businessman Oscar Fairnetti’s €1m investment will see the historic Leonardo Da Vinci painting have its air filtration...
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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