Could museums and arts organisations use Kickstarter more successfully? Jemima Kiss reports on the crowdfunding platform that has generated over $5bn.
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Bradford, Newcastle-Gateshead, Sheffield and Blackpool are the four places competing to host the £20m, two-month-long exhibition in 2018.
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Campaigners warn that “art interventions and protests will go on” as a five-year deal worth £7.5m is announced.
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At least £65m is likely to be channelled into the arts in England, after ACE commits to releasing its excess Lottery reserves.
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A large-scale study has found that the growth of the festivals is benefiting the tourism and hospitality sectors.
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The UK’s geography of creativity is growing, but music and performing arts are “blind spots” in policy-makers’ support for the creative industries, report finds.
A Cambodian arts organisation is attempting to raise the profile of a city’s art scene by converting a boat into a floating arts centre. Dara Bramson navigates the gangways to report back.
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140 organisations are to receive funding through Arts Council England’s programme, aimed at providing support for those with a limited track record in fundraising. Successful organisations...
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Unconscious bias and institutional discrimination affects salaries, recruitment and individuals’ decisions to leave the museum sector mid-career, according to a report by the Museums...
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Plans to display the museum’s collection in a series of underground chambers beneath Smithfield Market have been revealed. A sunken garden and a well reaching down to the River Fleet have also...
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£1.5m from a public appeal added to sizeable donations from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and Royal Museums Greenwich to turn the £10.3m portrait into public property.
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Artists based in London have been the main beneficiaries of a national scheme to help artists build overseas connections.
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A gender gap in children and young people participating in dance, music and drama activities is highlighted in the latest Taking Part figures.
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An online survey is inviting arts organisations to share their views on the potential for regeneration projects to boost the capital’s arts offer.
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THOM STANBURY, Chief Executive of the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, is to step down in September after 16 years with the organisation.
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Enjoy your successes and brush away your losses, playwright and art historian Laura-Jane Foley tells 22 year olds.
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Artistic Director of Nottingham Playhouse GILES CROFT is to step down in November 2017, having been in the role since 1999.
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Improbable Theatre Executive Director RACHAEL WILLIAMS is to join London’s Park Theatre in the same role from October. She replaces JOHN-JACKSON ALMOND, who left in March to join Tunbridge...
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Songwriter and Producer CRISPIN HUNT is to join the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) as Chair of the Board. Current Chair STEPHEN MCNEFF is to step down to concentrate on...
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Chairman of the Board of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) LUKE RITTNER is to step down in early 2017 after 23 years in the role. He will be replaced by former cabinet minister...
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BEATRIZ GARCIA, former Head of Research at the Institute of Cultural Capital, has become Director of Commissioned Evaluation at the British Council.
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AMELIA MITCHELL has joined the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art as Marketing and Sales Coordinator.
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Author, poet and Scottish Makar JACKIE KAY is to join the board of Edinburgh International Book Festival.
How can the BBC attribute a painting to Lucian Freud, whilst he emphatically denied that he ever created it? Kamini Vellodi weighs in.
Cultural leaders including Rufus Norris, Samuel West, George the Poet and Dreda Say Mitchell join a roundtable discussion about the cultural response to Brexit.