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A pioneering collaboration between the city, performers, the MU and local businesses has led to new policy and guidelines aimed at making the most of street entertainment.
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LOUISE EMERSON will be joining Cheltenham Festivals as the new Chief Executive Officer. Currently Head of Business and Commercial Strategy at the Natural History Museum, she was previously Managing...
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NMC Recordings has announced the appointment of a new Chair, ANDREW WARD, following the departure of Richard Shoylekov. Director of Corporate Relations at Brunel University, he is also Chair of the...
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LAURA DODGE, Communications and Membership Officer at Dance UK, is leaving for a new job in communications at the London School of Economics. The interim Communications Officer role is being taken by...
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Edinburgh’s response to a Fringe play by an Israeli theatre company reveals that the city’s image as a Mecca for Western culture is a phoney one, argues Prof. Tom Gallagher.
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Christine Henseler explains why an education in the arts and humanities is valued so highly by US leaders from the worlds of politics, science, business, medicine, and beyond.
‘The Reality of Small Differences’ exhibition is in protest at access arrangements for the display of Grayson Perry tapestries in Temple Newsam House in Leeds later this month, which will...
Campaigning by a children's rights group has led to the removal from a Rome gallery of a nude sculpture described as "paedo-pornographic".
A ban on amateur photography of its collection has been lifted as staff realised they were fighting a losing battle against mobile phones and cameras.
The Barbican’s 2015 run of Hamlet, which will star Benedict Cumberbatch, has become ticketing website Viagogo’s most in-demand theatre production of all time, registering over 200% more...
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Cutting the arts may seem like a quick fix for local authorities, but doing so can have dire social and economic consequences, warns Claire Mansfield.
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William Robin talks to black composers about the issues they face in the classical music world.
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The rise of digital art has created a new breed of artist with a new way of working. Dougal Shaw meets four of them
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Nick Cohen argues that demands placed on the Jewish Film Festival by London’s Tricycle Theatre constitute racism, and if Arts Council England was honourable, it would withdraw funding.
Producer David Johnson has published a letter responding to an Ambassador Theatre Group employee’s request for complimentary tickets to his show, in which he damns the group’s “...
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Arts venues are missing out – and even worse, scaring people off – by ignoring working-class culture, warns Mark Cousins.
A study involving hundreds of children at high schools in impoverished areas of Chicago and Los Angeles found that regular group music lessons prevented a decline in reading skills that would...
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Kenn Taylor charts the rise of education and engagement up the arts agenda, and examines the spaces that are dedicated to it.
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Far from classical music falling behind this brave new, digital world, Tom Service wonders if technology is finally catching up with the endless possibilities of classical musical culture.
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The Royal Ballet of Flanders has terminated its contract with Artistic Director ASSIS CARREIRO and will be appointing a successor "as soon as possible". No reason has been given for the...
Sunderland Music, Arts and Culture Trust (Mac) is currently securing funding to turn the Old Fire Station into a performing arts hub, as part of a £10m project to create a cultural quarter for...
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Former Director of Sheffield City Art Galleries Frank Constantine has died at the age of 95.
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SARA GARNHAM will be Founding Chair for Cambridge Live, the new not-for-profit organisation taking over aspects of Cambridge City Council’s cultural activity, including the Cambridge Corn...
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The Chief Curator of the Hayward Gallery STEPHANIE ROSENTHAL will be Artistic Director of the Biennale of Sydney for 2016.
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EMILY K. RAFFERTY, the first female President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is retiring after ten years in post and nearly four decades at the institution.