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Plans for a 1200-seat theatre, town hall and underground car park in Kent have been rejected by local councillors, one of whom described them as a "potential vampire on the neck of the finances...
It's estimated that 80% of visitors to the Louvre come for the Mona Lisa alone. After queue chaos caused the museum to restrict access to the famous artwork for days, Henry Samuel asks whether a new system will suffice.
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American Lucia Lucas, 38, has become the first transgender singer to perform with English National Opera, playing Public Opinion in a performance of 'Orpheus in the Underworld'. She...
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The new Saturday afternoon programme will feature compositions from video games including 'Final Fantasy', 'Legend of Zelda' and 'Halo'. Host Jessica Curry, who presented...
Jo Tovey isn't reading less, but she is reading less literature. She looks at how the "attention blackhole" of online life is affecting our reading habits and how to beat it.
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'The Stage' has taken down two opposing opinion articles regarding the introduction of gender neutral bathrooms at the Old Vic after deciding their publication "only polarised the...
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New figures show a continuing trend of disabled adults engaging with the arts – but an ongoing decline in creative pursuits among children.
Staff threatened to resign from a South African gallery if confronting drawings that interrogate "white male ideas" were not removed from an African art fair, writes Anny Shaw. Does the artist's goal of portraying "extreme polarisation" justify the offense he has caused?
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Falconer Museum in Forres is likely to close at the end of October after Moray Council cut £80,000 of annual funding for the institution earlier this year. Councillor George Alexander, who is...
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Mayor Gallery in Mayfair will exhibit artworks by Congo, a chimpanzee which produced 400 impressionist paintings within about three years. Fifty-five of the works, contributed to the gallery by...
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BRIAN WALSH OBE is taking over from PROFESSOR JUDITH LAMIE as Chair of the Board of Directors at QUAD, Derby’s centre for art and film Lamie had been part of the QUAD Board for over two...
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The new Associate Director at Swindon-based Prime Theatre is LAURA JASPER. She has worked across the UK as an actor, theatre practitioner and director for Bristol Old Vic, Nottingham Playhouse,...
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New figures from the Department for Education show the number of arts, media and publishing apprentices has fallen by a third since 2015 – but the data doesn’t tell the full story.
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WOLFGANG TILLMANS has been elected as the new Chair of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, marking the organisation’s return to an artist-led board for the first time in over 30 years. Himself...
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Learning and Participation Manager CLARE FARMER is leaving the dance company after four years to take up a new position at Middlesex University. Akademi has recently welcomed two new senior staff,...
Margate has become a "different, edgy, sexy" town since the Turner Contemporary opened. Thousands of people now visit every day - but is the area any better for aritsts? Tanya Gupta looks deeper.
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Banksy's "Devolved Parliament", which depicts MPs in the House of Commons as chimpanzees, sold for a record amount at Sotheby's in London on Thursday. The four-metre wide painting...
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Redwood Performing Arts Trust will reopen the Underground Theatre before Christmas, renaming it Grove Theatre. The trust was offered the venue by East Sussex County Council after the organisation it...
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Arts Council England’s draft ten-year strategy aims to ensure its own bureaucratic survival and reveals the thinking of an organisation that imagines it is in charge. It is not a strategy for the cultural organisations it is meant to serve, says Robert Hewison.
The publicly funded cultural sector can no longer be complacent about the communities it is intended to serve, writes Kenn Taylor. He looks at why - and how - we perform community engagement.
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Groundlings Theatre in Portsmouth may have to "start the business from scratch", its Artistic Director Richard Stride said, after burglars caused thousands of pounds worth of damage. The...
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The London theatre has replaced signs on male and female toilets with pictures of cubicles or urinals as part of a major refurbishment. The new facilities will allow people to make their own...
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Placido Domingo has resigned from the company, which he led for more than 15 years, amid investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct made by 20 women. Domingo said he holds LA Opera "...
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Andrew Pinnock says City of Culture planners should spend less time making up positive-sounding stories they think they can sell, and more time listening to the people who make culture on their own terms.
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Apprenticeship reforms have offered new opportunities for organisations who want to take on a trainee, writes Madeleine Lund. But how realistic are apprenticeships for our most disadvantaged and underserved young people?