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Collections Trust has deleted a link to a terminology guide from its website following accusations that a section on Palestine described Hamas as 'freedom fighters'.
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Peterborough's Cresset theatre has closed for a month to allow all of its 876 seats to be replaced as part of a £5m refurbishment.
The BBC reports that the work is now underway to...
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All six recommendations of independent steering group, set up to advise on how museums and galleries can better reflect the country’s role in empire, colonialism and historic slavery are accepted by Scottish government.
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Woking Council will ask the government if it can use money provided for digital strategy to keep an arts centre open.
The BBC reports that the cash-strapped local authority was given £1m as...
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Bow Arts provides low-cost housing and studios to artists in properties that have been deregistered from the housing list because they are due for demolition.
Feature
The figures for attendance at arts events in the UK have been stable since 2005*, writes Agnieszka Wlazeł, despite a variety of audience development initiatives over the years.
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Environmental campaigners are calling on architects not to take part in a contest to redesign around a third of the British Museum following a controversial £50m sponsorship deal with BP that...
Arts People
Theatre Témoin, a physical theatre company based in the South East, has appointed ABBIE WILLCOX to be its new Executive Director and CEO.
She assumes the role from AILIN...
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The introduction of admission fees at all national museum sites in Wales due to “critical” financial pressures has an “air of inevitability”, a government committee has heard...
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Arts leaders have reacted to Art Council England's decision to extend its current funding portfolio until 2027.
Arts People
ALEX SOBEL has been elected to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
The cross-party Culture, Media and Sport Committee scrutinises the work of the Department for Culture,...
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V&A Dundee will reduce the number of major exhibitions it stages each year as part of “mitigating measures” to cut costs.
The move means the Scottish design museum will host only...
Arts People
JOE BROOK will become Director of Bradford's Peace Museum, joining from National Museums Liverpool as Head of Creative Studios.
Brook takes up post in February, ahead of the organisation...
Arts People
Opera Singer DONALD MAXWELL joins the Board of Directors at Welsh National Opera (WNO).
Maxwell has been a professional opera singer for more than 45 years, making his debut...
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The 985 arts and culture organisations making up Arts Council England's National Portfolio will be able to apply for an additional year of core funding.
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The majority of UK artists want the government to introduce legislation to protect their work from being used to train AI, according to a new survey.
Conducted by Design and Artists Copyright...
Opinion
For the fifth time since assuming the leadership of Nottingham Playhouse, Stephanie Sirr is galvanising objections to a major funding cut.
Opinion
More can be done to help struggling arts organisations, says Arts Professional's Neil Puffett.
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English National Opera plans to axe 19 posts in its orchestra, and make the chorus, orchestra and music staff part-time as part of efforts to adapt to lower levels of income.
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Arts Council of Northern Ireland has named 292 artists awarded funding from a £1.04m National Lottery fund as part of its Support for Individual Artists Programme.
The scheme provides...
Arts People
Royal Ballet School will create a full-time Chief Executive Officer role for the first time as part of a new management structure instigated by the school's Governors.
As the search...
Arts People
Nonclassical has named MIRANDA JOHNSON Executive Director (Maternity Cover).
During her tenure, Johnson will be responsible for devising and delivering a work programme across the...
Arts People
Barbican has announced PHILIPPA SIMPSON as Director for Buildings and Renewal and BEAU VIGUSHIN as Director for Audiences.
Both will take up their new roles in the spring of this year...
Joshi Herrmann interviews outgoing HOME Chief Executive Dave Moutrey on the “colonisation” of the arts and democratising the sector as he prepares to become the city’s full-time cultural chief.
Looking back on 2023, Gary Raymond examines the cultural landscape in Wales amid an ongoing battle between its Arts Council and National Theatre, and funding cuts.