Wolverhampton City Council is removing funding for 13 arts and community organisations from April, while 17 others will only receive funding for the next year. The Central Youth Theatre will lose its...
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Jo Verrent finds arts organisations, producers, venues and artists to be surprisingly uncreative when it’s comes to access.
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Employment in music and the performing and visual arts has been growing more slowly than in the rest of the creative economy, but their financial performance is forging ahead.
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Ten successful bidders will be part of a £3m programme which aims to develop partnerships between arts, culture and tourism in England.
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A House of Commons Select Committee has opened an inquiry into the work of Arts Council England and its regional funding policies.
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Nine digital start-up businesses and SMEs are being given the chance to win a share of £225k and to work with cultural organisations as well as big-name commercial brands.
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Boris Johnson has issued a statement supporting the preservation of Southbank’s undercroft skate park, a week after a petition against the Festival Wing plans was submitted with over 27,000 signatures.
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The National Portrait Gallery has announced the appointment of PHILLIP PRODGER, founding Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, as Head of Photographs Collection...
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DANNY BOYLE has been announced as a Patron of HOME, the new cultural hub and social space for Manchester, which opens in Spring 2015.
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MICHAEL CROSS has been appointed as Director of White Rock Theatre in Hastings. He has spent the past 11 years as Artistic Director of the Key Theatre in Peterborough.
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Blackpool Council and Wyre Council have appointed two Directors to lead on LeftCoast, a Creative People and Places project in the North West. JULIA TURPIN will be Executive Director and artist...
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Two of Festivals and Events International’s (FEI) Associate Directors are embarking on new roles alongside their consultancy work with the organisation. PAUL GUDGIN will be Director of the City...
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Leadership style is changing, from the extrovert personality controlling from the front to someone who shares power and develops and fosters relationships, believes Sue Hoyle.
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Peter Welch, Managing Director of arts sponsorship agency Showcase, names those who inspire him.
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Black theatre company Nitro has recently opened a sister company in Sydney, Australia. Felix Cross tells how it has all been possible.
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Eric Gibson wonders where New York’s Museum of Modern Art is going with its latest extension, seeing as Nicholas Serota’s commitment to new at Tate never came at the expense of the old. 
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Rupert Christiansen on the need for opera to rediscover the virtues of simplicity for the sake of its audiences.
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Lyn Gardner considers how star rated reviews influence theatre attendance and the decision to buy, or not to buy. Is it time for a new reviewing system?
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Lyndsey Winship says “there is no dozing off, zoning out or mentally writing your shopping list” in multi-sensory immersive concerts.
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Dominic Dromgoole on the Globe theatre: from scepticism and suspicion, to success, to creating a new revolution with candlelit theatre.
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Anyone involved or interested in continuing professional development (CPD) for arts practitioners working in the criminal justice sector is invited to contribute to the second part of a sector-wide...
A £30k grant from the Scottish Government and a further £50k from the government’s international touring fund has been given to the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) to enable two...
In its most successful year to date, the British Museum achieved a record number of 6.7m visitors in 2013, more than the previous high of 6m in 2008, and 20% more than in 2012. This is in part due to...
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Newly appointed Economics Editor for the BBC, Robert Peston is to pose the question ‘Are cuts in funding the greatest threat to culture?’ at the launch of the Warwick Commission public...
During the 2012/13 season, international visitors made up 22.5% of Broadway ticket sales, around 2.6m tickets, according to The Broadway League’s annual demographic report. 

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