Arts People
Director STEPHEN WRENTMORE, who has worked at the National Theatre and the Crucible in Sheffield, is to join Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts, as its first Artistic Producer.
Arts People
CAROL MAUND, formerly Artistic and Executive Director of Sheffield’s Site Gallery, has become Interim Executive Director of Peckham Platform while Founding Executive Director EMILY DRUIFF is on...
Arts People
Arts & Business Scotland has appointed DIANA MURRAY as the new Chair of its Board of Trustees. She replaces SARAH DEAS.
Feature
A visual business model tool is allowing arts organisations to take a playful and creative approach to planning, says Julie Aldridge.
News
Improved visitor facilities, new exhibition spaces and a learning centre are expected in the first phase of a £50m regeneration project.
Case study
A new box office system has built a stronger link between London’s Dominion Theatre and its ticket agents, who can now sell directly from the live inventory. Libby Penn reports.
Feature
The Hepworth Wakefield is blessed with many great pieces of modern British art, but a priority is to grow its collection. Simon Wallis discusses the gallery’s approach to new gifts and acquisitions.
News
A “trailblazing” agreement between Arts Council England and a higher education body hopes to get more students involved in the arts.
Case study
Opening a hostel has helped East Street Arts to support artists and generate much-needed income. Nicola Greenan explains how they did it.
Arts People
Ahead of the departure of Deputy Chief Executive ALTHEA EFUNSHILE, Arts Council England (ACE) is restructuring its Executive Board. LAURA DYER and SIMON MELLOR will become deputies for Chief...
News
Equity’s Annual Representative Conference has passed motions to encourage organisations to promote inclusive casting policies and to ease demands on actors who are parents or carers. The union...
News
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra will live stream the final concert in its 2015/16 season from Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall with the help of Classic FM and STV.
Ahead of the opening of Tate Modern’s new extension, Robert Bevan has a look around and shares some photos.
Opinion
After being met by a sea of white faces at a recent industry event, Rebbecca Hemmings says it’s time for Birmingham’s arts sector to face up to its diversity crisis.
From issue 294
Feature
Rebecca Morland shares step-by-step advice for groups looking to save historic theatre buildings from decay, demolition or closure.
Many musicians’ ability to practise their art will at some point be compromised by illness or injury – it’s time to stop marginalising them, says Heather O’Donnell.
Let's stop giving maverick creatives who bully the people they work with so many opportunities, says Ann Tonks.
Tate Modern is expanding, but what vision does new Director Frances Morris have for the gallery? She tells Louisa Buck about her plans.
News
As part of an ongoing £5.3m upgrade, the arts centre is to close from the end of May until October, although it will continue staging work in venues across Poole.
News
Lambeth Council temporarily closed two libraries as part of a money saving measure, but then spent over twice the cost of running them on security personnel to guard the buildings.
News
Hertfordshire’s Ark Theatre has closed its doors to professional shows after delays in the venue’s relocation prompted councillors to cut its annual £20k grant. The theatre, based...
Arts People
Know, trust and respect yourself: trainer and facilitator Michèle Taylor’s shares the calming guidance she would give to herself at 22.
News
The sector needs to start from scratch and develop a national strategy for screening or audiences will continue to lose out, warns English Touring Opera.
Entrepreneur Nick Hartwright hopes that an arts-led “social enterprise” hotel will put London’s Wood Green on the map – in a good way. Richard Godwin pays a visit.
As swingeing cuts to the culture budget hit Australia, Paul Karp explains how the Arts party is proposing to make big companies fund a “cultural renaissance”.