Some publicly funded museums are moving away from performance management governance and towards a peer review model. Anwar Tlili explains why more should follow.
The final report of the Warwick Commission inquiry finds the future of cultural value as lying in a seamless relationship between the cultural sector and the creative industries, coupled with a focus on enterprise and creativity in schools.
The need to correct the geographic imbalance in England’s arts funding has been proven and it’s time for Arts Council England to “Just do it!”, say the authors of the RoCC report, in their final assessment of regional arts funding.
Digital skills, processes and activities have helped most arts organisations reach new audiences and generate alternative revenue streams, report Tandi Williams and Hasan Bakhshi.
The tragic story of Lidice, a Czech village destroyed by the Nazis, formed part of a recent Cultural Value project investigating the power of storytelling to develop empathy, compassion and understanding. John Holmes discusses the findings.
Dirk vom Lehn explains how video-based research into social interactions in museum or gallery exhibitions can be used to develop new resources and inform arts marketing.
Interns, apprentices and volunteers are taking the place of permanent paid staff in the arts sector, which is also seeing a move away from contracts of employment towards freelance working.
It is becoming increasingly less likely that culture and arts services will be able to play a meaningful part in delivering the Government’s ambition of tackling poverty and promoting social justice, the Welsh Local Government Association has warned.
Redistributing arts funding across England would bring “marginal if any long term benefits for people living outside the capital”, according to London’s Deputy Mayor, who defends the capital’s share.
Greater fairness in Lottery funding would help to redress the wider geographic arts funding imbalance that sees London benefit “out of all proportion to its population”, says Select Committee.
