From issue 273
Following the announcement of its new season, Kate Molleson is concerned Scottish Opera believes its audience can’t handle risky, creative work – the kind that is truly exciting.
From issue 273
Rupert Christiansen argues Birmingham has cultivated a thriving high-brow arts scene, but what it really needs is an underbelly.
From issue 273
With so many women in key positions in Reading arts community, local paper getreading felt it was time to share their stories.
From issue 273
As Rothko’s vandalised Black on Maroon goes back on display at Tate Modern, Jonathan Jones questions if the gallery’s less than conventional atmosphere encourages a lack of reverence for its art.
From issue 273 News
A new trade union for visual and applied artists has been launched, “to challenge the economic inequalities in the art world by working together to negotiate fair pay and better working...
From issue 273 News
A UK-wide event-planning and anti-clash website will help government bodies and agencies to support a drive for tourism and cultural exports.
From issue 273
University of the Arts London’s new professor, Fred Deakin, on helping students to learn the skills they’ll need to build a business from scratch.
The theatre has obtained the rights to distribute London Road – the film version of its 2011 production – to UK cinemas. It plans to utilise relationships formed through NT Live.
Protesters interrupted the performance by London Symphony Orchestra to make a stand against conductor Valery Gergiev's support of Russia’s policies in Ukraine.
There were local protests at the opening of Bury Sculpture Centre, an expansion of Bury Art Museum. Managers say alternatives were closing part of the library, or renting the space to a supermarket...
Following a £350k overspend, Cornwall Council’s service will no longer employ music teachers directly. Self-employed teachers will have to pay the council an annual fee of £95 to be...
A multi-million-pound proposal hopes to turn the Perthshire theatre into one of Scotland's top venues. Funds will be raised through “national agencies, trusts and foundations and PFT`s...
Axiom Arts is hunting for a new venue after its bid for the disused Axiom building – the group’s namesake – fell through.
The Borghese Gallery’s air conditioning system broke down two months ago. A lack of resources left the gallery unable to pay for maintenance and it has had to resort to opening its windows.
From issue 274 Case study
Louisa Davies asks if England’s funding structures are hampering the development of our emerging artists.
From issue 274 Case study
Mila Oshin describes a cross-artform showcase that presents the work of like-minded artists, many of whom have been ‘emerging’ for their whole careers.
From issue 274 Case study
The White Moose seeks out emerging contemporary artists who fall between commercial art and the publicly funded sector. Milica Lewis tells the story.
From issue 274 Case study
Prime Studios in Windsor is a space for artists to work, interact and display their art. Dan Eastmond explains why he wants it to be different.
From issue 274 Case study
Cate Gordon describes how the Young Associate Scheme at Harrow Arts Centre offers a clearer career progression route for young people.
From issue 274 Case study
Lindsey Butcher discusses the issues that emerging aerial dance artists face in an artform that itself is just emerging.
From issue 274 Case study
How do you start out as a theatre director? Lisa Spirling describes a regional programme which nurtures visionary, young directors.
From issue 274 Feature
How does an art and design graduate emerge into a sometimes unwelcoming world? Susan Jones says that help is at hand.
From issue 273
With slashed budgets, a collapsed tourist industry and constant simmering unrest, how is it that Egypt’s arts scene is thriving, asks Ivan Hewett.
From issue 273
With culture thriving in rural Scotland’s village halls, would the arts be better off with a ‘Shed Officer’ and young practitioners trained to do their best with very little, asks Francis Stevenson.
The Festival’s new Director, Fergus Linehan, hopes the date change will protect and bolster the city’s cultural reputation, as well as ensure audiences are not left “short-changed...

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