Stella Duffy says ‘Great Art For Everyone’ as a title encourages over-professionalisation and a focus on art over artists. She suggests a new title to drastically improve arts funding.
Arts People
Light art in former porn shops and harrowing exhibitions about Yugoslavia’s ‘golden years’: all in week’s work for art critic and presenter Aindrea Emelife.
Feature
Submitting a grant application can be a difficult and confusing process. Deaf artist Olivier Jamin shares his tips for disabled applicants.
News
The Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall is finding the match funding for a £1.5m Arts Council capital grant from its trading surpluses.
News
In a ballot held by Equity, 42 out of 44 chorus members – all of those present – voted to strike during the first act of a performance of Akhnaten on 18 March. This comes in...
News
After sustained protest by the #Cardiffwithoutculture campaign and a £14m funding boost from the Welsh Government, Cardiff Council has agreed a new budget and confirmed it...
The Horniman Museum’s Digital Manager talks trends, challenges and successes with digital work.
What is interactive, multi-sensory, mixed-media art? And should the London art scene be embracing it? Rachel Stoplar investigates.
Can a dancer help policemen interpret a suspect’s walk? Renée Loth looks at the history of artists engaging with city services to solve municipal problems.
News
Arts Council England’s latest funding stream supports arts sector efforts to grow creative enterprise outside London.
News
The first study in ten years into the livelihood of visual artists in England will examine how existing funding programmes impact on their careers.
Case study
Audiences and rural promoters are the life-blood of Northumberland Theatre Company. Gillian Hambleton reveals how the company harnessed that loyalty to keep the company going through hard times.
Arts People
ALI ROBERTSON, Director of Tobacco Factory Theatres since 2007, will become Kneehigh Theatre’s new Executive Producer in June. He will replace PAUL CREWES, who is joining the Wallis Annenberg...
Arts People
Following the departure of MARTIN HALLIDAY last summer, LEE HENDERSON will join the Marina Theatre, Lowestoft as Chief Executive.
Arts People
Recently Executive Director for Rifco and Executive Producer for The Red Room Theatre and Film Company, BRYAN SAVERY has taken up the role of Executive Director at the Free Word Centre. He replaces...
Arts People
JO DITCH has been appointed as Venue Director at Watford Colosseum, having previously worked at Dunstable’s Grove Theatre and Trafalgar Studios.
Arts People
From MoMA Oxford and ICA to Artangel and Arnolfini – Rob Bowman tells us about his career presenting extraordinary art.
Arts People
After 16 years as Head of Music & Events at Buckinghamshire New University, TERESA MOORE is to join A Greener Festival as Director.
Arts People
BENGI ÜNSAL, formerly Director of Salon at the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, has been appointed as Senior Contemporary Music Programmer at the Southbank Centre.
Arts People
DAVID PRATLEY, Chair of Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts, is to step down in the autumn after seven years in the role.
News
Countering criticism by unionist politicians that it was “glorifying terrorism”, ACNI defended its decision to award £5k to O’Brien Press for a comic book entitled ‘...
News
Although 2015 saw box office receipts climb by 1.6% on the previous year, the number of attenders remained fairly constant at 14.7 million, according to the latest annual figures from the Society of...
News
The site Art UK, launched by Bob and Roberta Smith, intends to use a £2.8m Heritage Lottery grant to capture the 80% of publicly-owned art currently held out of public view in storage, Council...
Case study
From a small festival born of community need, to an international agency for Chinese contemporary art, Zoe Dunbar tells the story of CFCCA.
News
The theatre will stage a programme of work outside the building while a new studio space is built and facilities upgraded.