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”.
Can Hereford, a city of 58,000 people, shake off its villagey stereotype and become 2021 City of Culture, asks Nick Higham.
An increasing number of theatre companies are bringing great art to everyone through relaxed performances. Matt Trueman argues for them to become standard practice.
News
Help Musicians UK is commissioning the country’s first academic study into mental health in the music industry as part of its MAD (Music and Depression) campaign. This follows its 2014 survey,...
News
Arts figures including Julian Lloyd Webber, Tamara Rojo and Creative Industries Federation Chief Executive John Kampfner have condemned plans to implement the English Baccalaureate in a letter in The...
News
For the first time in its history the British Museum was forced to close as a result of a protest, after eleven Greenpeace campaigners scaled its columns to protest the involvement of BP in the...
News
The popular press has dismissed anti-Brexit arts figures as ‘luvvies’ after a survey revealed the vast majority of workers in the creative sector will vote for Britain to remain in the EU.
News
Arts organisations are being invited to get involved in an inquiry, launched by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, into how arts organisations contribute to their communities.