News
Plans to transform a Grade II listed terrace of townhouses near the V&A in South Kensington into 30 commercial art galleries have received support from senior staff at the Royal College of Art...
Arts People
What should you look for in a guru? As she leaves the Arts Marketing Association, Julie Aldridge reveals who has helped and guided her career – and how.
Arts People
Regional Producer at Pavilion Dance South West since 2012, ZANNAH DOAN is to lead the organisation from 1 March as Chief Executive. Current Chief Executive DERYCK NEWLAND will join the Live Theatre...
Arts People
MATHEW RUSSELL is to become Executive Director at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, alongside CLAIRE GERVEAUX, who is the organisation’s new Chair.
Arts People
Head of Solihull Music Service for 17 years, TIM LOW is to become Assistant Manager at OHMI. He is joined by SHOSHANA PAVETT who will take on special projects with the organisation.
Arts People
PETER KELLER, currently Treasurer of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Director of the Salzburg Cathedral Museum (Dommuseum), has become Director General of ICOM.
Arts People
JOHN WILLIS, former Chairman of BAFTA and Director of Programmes at Channel 4, will take up the role of Chair of Central School of Speech and Drama from July. He will replace PAUL TAIANO, who steps...
Arts People
PR and Press Manager at Buxton Festival, LIZ MACKENZIE, is leaving to take on a new role as Engagement, PR and Events Manager at Buxton Crescent Hotel and Spa.
Feature
Following the Brexit vote, are young European actors who have chosen to work in the UK likely to stay? Mark C. Hewitt sounded out a few of them.
Case study
The first Mossley Light Festival may have transformed the northern town for just one night, but the change in the community will be much more long term. Leon Patel explains how it empowered local people.
Opinion
UK cities must be granted freedoms to attract inward investment and build the country’s reputation as a creative powerhouse, or risk being left behind, argues Councillor Phil Bale.
News
Income generating activities by ACNI’s core-funded organisations have failed to offset the loss of Government funding and artists’ costs have been slashed to balance budgets.
The next NPO funding round will bring some disappointments, but it’s time to be more positive about life outside the national portfolio, says Lyn Gardner.
News
One in ten respondents to a survey of over 1,000 school workers in England by the Guardian Teacher Network said that either art, music or drama is no longer offered at their school.
News
Following protest at Walsall Council’s plan to stop funding the West Midlands gallery, a £3.5m funding bid has been submitted to Arts Council England to develop a new business model for...
News
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Talawa Theatre Company have both launched initiatives hoping to improve the diversity of the British theatre sector. The RSC plans to help young people from...
News
Leaving the European Union presents opportunities to make education policy and the visa system more responsive to the needs of the creative industries, a select committee has heard.
News
Arts and Engagement Director Leonie Bell is to leave the national funder for 18 months to help write the Scottish Government’s new culture strategy, which was an SNP manifesto commitment.
News
The National Theatre has been accused of a ‘dereliction of duty’ by the Guardian’s Michael Billington for not programming enough classic drama, prompting a countering article from...
There’s no huge difference between Assemble, the architects that won the Turner Prize, and the squatters that have turned a Russian oligarch’s London home into a homeless hostel, says Will Gompertz.
An arts organisation can only become a successful fundraiser if the board understands the importance of the profession, says Caroline Sharpen.
Could a partnership between Kings College London, Ericsson, and a number of arts organisations lead to a ‘Netflix for the performance arts’? Tom Bawden investigates.
Combine coding and dancing and you get chaotic, but compelling performances, says Kelsey Lannin.
News
Thousands have backed a campaign to re-open the Landmark Theatre in Ilfracombe and the Queen’s Theatre in Barnstaple, which closed after the trust running them went into administration.
Case study
Every child in Scotland will see a performing arts production in their school each year if the National Theatre of Scotland’s plans go ahead. Lucy Mason reviews the first year of a trailblazing new pilot.