News
A year before Tate is due to renew its sponsorship with BP, Platform London is curating a free, completely unauthorised festival inside Tate Modern.
Arts People
Kully Thiarai reveals why remembering to be scared and learning to bake have driven her through her career and to her latest role, Director of Cast in Doncaster.
Strict rules on who can applying for particular pots of funding are blocking innovative approaches to how companies can be set up and run, says Thomas Hescott.
When applying for funding through Grants for the Arts, theatres are routinely advised to focus on the social, rather than artistic benefits of their work. This must change, says Rebecca Atkinson-Lord.
News
A ten-year strategy for the arts in Northern Ireland is being considered under a new consultation launched by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure.
Arts People
They raise the money organisations need to make great art, but who are they really? And what drives them to do what they do? Amanda Rigali meets three Arts Fundraising Fellows to find out.
Arts People
FIONA GASPER is to leave the Royal Exchange Theatre after five and a half years to join Manchester International Festival as Executive Director. She will split her time between the two organisations...
Arts People
Currently Executive Director of Free Word, ELEANOR LANG will take up the role of Executive Director at Cheek by Jowl from January 2016. She succeeds BETH BYRNE, who will join the Southbank Centre as...
Arts People
MARGARET HODGE MP, who has formerly been Culture Minister and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, has been appointed Chair of Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Arts People
TONY CHARLES, the Director of Platform A Gallery in Middlesbrough, will join Cleveland College of Art and Design in Hartlepool as a fine art lecturer. NIK HOLMES and FRANCES MOFFATT also join the...
Arts People
The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) has appointed ten new members to its board, including PAT CONNOR, Head of Development & Events at BBC North, and Professor JANET BEER, Vice-...
The Spending Review may have seemed like good news for the arts, says Mark Robinson, but cuts to local authority budgets mean that dark times could still be ahead.
News
The Assembly Rooms are to be run as a ‘digital centre for the arts’ during the Edinburgh Fringe by the Riverside Trust, which runs the Riverside Studios, on a two-year contract.
News
£9m a year in revenue funding has been allocated to the Factory Manchester from 2018-19, the government announced yesterday in its 2015-20 spending review.
The money joins the £78m...
Case study
With a background in commercial marketing, Adam Buss recognises the power of Audience Finder. He tells Katie Flaherty how he has been using it to QUAD’s best advantage.
Feature
If we are to increase audiences and tackle cultural resistance, we must listen to all opinions about the art we produce – not dismiss those with negative views as not ‘getting it’, says Kirsty Sedgman.
News
Local authorities envisage a shift away from direct provision of cultural services, but are preparing to lead by articulating a vision, brokering partnerships, and sourcing new funding.
Feature
Poor fundraising tactics have brought shame on the sector, says Michelle Wright. Change is needed, but is a new regulator really the way to go?
News
Arts funding will be protected from cuts as Chancellor George Osborne declares culture one of the “best investments we can make”.
News
The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers’s #lookfortheSTAR campaign, aiming to encourage customers to check for authentication when buying tickets, has been backed by the Society of London...
News
Drama UK, the industry body which accredits UK drama training, has seen almost a third of its member schools leave since September, including RADA and LAMDA, threatening its position within the...
News
After ten years of work, and £250m of investment, Singapore’s National Gallery – home to 8,000 pieces of art from the 19th and 20th Centuries – has opened to the public.
News
The new policy will establish a ‘Culture Task Group’ to meet quarterly and interrogate council policy, an online advice hub, and an ‘Open Fund’ offering grants of between...
Opinion
Institutional favouritism lies at the heart of Arts Council England’s funding framework, and ACE does itself no favours by trying to defend the indefensible, says Liz Hill.
Joseph Young reports on Artquest’s talk about fair pay for artists, finding the media representation of artists and the quality of so-called artistic ‘opportunities’ serious obstacles to real progress on pay.