Arts People
The London Festival of Baroque Music has announced that LINDSAY KEMP, Artistic Director of the festival, will be stepping down in May after 10 years in post. He will be joined by LUCY BENDING,...
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SIMON TURNER, co-founder of mid-market private equity firm Inflexion, has been appointed as the new Chair of the Roundhouse.
Arts People
National Museums Liverpool’s new Chair is to be Sir DAVID HENSHAW, formerly Chief Executive of Liverpool City Council. He joins for a four-year term from February.
Arts People
Director of the Hunterian for over six years, Professor DAVID GAIMSTER has been appointed Director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
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PETER EVANS, Operations Director at Ambassador Theatre Group, has announced his decision to leave the company. DAVID BRADBURY, ATG’s Press Officer, will also be leaving.
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HAZEL WOTHERSPOON will take up the post of Interim Director of the Federation of Scottish Theatre until the recruitment for a new Director is completed.
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CAROLINE NORBURY, CEO of Creative England; HANNAH KENDALL, Director at London Music Masters; JULIAN NOTT, Film and TV Composer; and MARK POOLE, Chartered Accountant, have become trustees at PRS...
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Model skeletons, cubed earwax and mentoring young writers – all in a week’s work for Ministry of Stories’ Oz Yikici.
Case study
Facebook Live has helped The National Gallery get closer to a worldwide audience. Tamara El Assawi shares what they’ve learned conducting online tours.
Feature
At the end of a three-year project touring contemporary theatre to small venues in the north east of England, Annabel Turpin and Kate Sanderson share the lessons they have learned.
Opinion
As the debate over whether London needs a new concert hall becomes more divisive, Jodi Myers says it’s time for some careful thought.
News
Although visits by UK nationals have held steady, visitor numbers from overseas have fallen despite an overall increase in tourism.
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Case study
Many great public art collections were founded upon the bequests of private collectors, but how can galleries engage the collectors and philanthropists of the future? Kirstie Hamilton reports on Museums Sheffield investigations.
Case study
Creative entrepreneurs in remote regions risk isolation, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Aisling Murtagh explains how a project in Europe’s Northern Edge is helping to support and connect creative enterprises.
News
A petition on the White House’s ‘We the People’ service calling on President Trump to preserve arts funding has been tweeted by signees hundreds of times since it was created on...
News
The UK-wide ‘light-touch’ review will cover certain aspects of the scheme and its processes, with the aim of refreshing it in time for its 30th anniversary in 2018.
The Saatchi Gallery’s new ‘selfie exhibition’, run in partnership with a mobile phone manufacturer, is clearly self-promotion – but is also an interesting juncture between business and art, says Will Gompertz.
Documentary theatre is the key to responding to Trump’s election, says Melissa Bergstrom.
It’s often impossible to understand creative people when they talk or write about their work. It’s time to cut the pompous jargon from theatre marketing, says Lyn Gardner.
Radio 3 is too afraid to ask questions about the humiliation of ENO and the ‘preposterous’ London Concert Hall – this needs to change, argues Damian Thompson.
News
The museum, which is set to move to the site of the derelict Smithfield market, has been granted £110m from the City of London Corporation and £70m from the Mayor of London. A planning...
News
Cho Yoon Sun was arrested at the weekend over allegations she blocked almost 10,000 artists from public and private funding and placed them under state surveillance because they had criticised the...
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Kim Morgan pays tribute to the founder of Pegasus Opera Company and people’s champion Lloyd Newton, who died earlier this month.
Arts People
An unexpected treasure is what your soul desires, composer and musician Sandro Mussida tells people starting a career in the arts.
News
Outgoing Arts Council Chair Sir Peter Bazalgette is to conduct a review into how the creative industries can “underpin future prosperity”.