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Co-founder Jonathan Harvey explores the history of Acme, from charitable housing initiative providing affordable spaces for artists, to gallery, to a celebratory exhibition of the work they supported in the early years.
Although the Council needs to save £110m, Council leader Nick Ruston believes the potential cultural and economic returns from gaining the title will justify using reserve funds to help...
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Case study
Rach Flowers describes how Warwickshire County Council has used the arts as a consultation tool for developing its all-age autism strategy.
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Case study
To replace events previously run by Lincoln City Council, former member of the arts team Sara Bullimore founded the Lincoln Inspired festival. She tells the story so far.
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Case study
Oxford City Council has launched CREATE, a peer-to-peer, cultural micro-funding and collaboration event, which is offering new opportunities for artists to pitch for some cash.
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Case study
Kent County Council turned to Ladder to the Moon to deliver workforce development training for dementia care, and to create a classic movie. Emma Hanson is delighted with the outcomes.
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Case study
The running of the Hazlitt Arts Centre is being contracted out by Maidstone City Council. Mandy Hare explains the rationale for the decision.
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Wendy Earle says a good arts education should give young people enough knowledge to enter into intelligent debate about what is good and what is not.
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Joe Turnbull says the subtle intricacies of the 'Art Everywhere' images were no match for the attention-seeking catchy slogans, bold text and in-your-face images of commercial adverts.
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Mark Lawson considers whether audiences who buy discounted tickets are a special case, and if there’s a correlation between entry price and receptivity.
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Feature
Arts Development UK’s latest survey on arts spending in local authorities in England and Wales reveals a "dramatic and changing picture". Pete Bryan and Judy Hughes set out their findings.
The earning power of school subjects is to be published in an attempt to help young people better plan their career paths. Uptake of creative arts and design could see further decline as the low...
Lost Arts, a campaign affiliated with eight trade unions, has organised the protest because “government continues to make cuts to arts and culture and ignore its true value”. A ...
Doncaster’s new theatre, Cast, opens as part of a £300m scheme to regenerate the town centre. Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council approved the building of the theatre, to which it...
Dumfries and Galloway Council has stepped in and taken over the converted Stove Building, a £2m arts-based regeneration project in Dumfries town centre, and will invest £32.5k to complete...
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News
Improvements in physical access for disabled people have not been matched by better strategies to attract audiences, says new report.
Taunton Deane Borough Council has set a deadline of 23 September for local community groups to submit business plans for running the theatre. The Council purchased the venue in July after a long-...
The Manchester gallery will be closed for one year as redevelopment plans are carried out. The public spaces will be doubled with the inclusion of a study centre, learning studio and expanded gallery...
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NICKY WEBB is to leave Artichoke in December, to develop her own work and contribute more to her family life. HELEN MARRIAGE will continue as sole Director of the company they set up together in 2005...
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Turner Prize nominee JANE WILSON has been named as Professor of Art at the University of Wolverhampton.
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The new Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Government Art Collection will be DAVID VEREY, who will hold the post until September 2018. He succeeds JULIA SOMERVILLE, who served in the role for...
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The Finnish Institute’s new Art and Cultural Programme Manager will be JOHANNA VAKKARI, who will join the organisation in January 2014. She leaves the Fine Arts Academy of Finland where she is...
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RICHARD CROXFORD is stepping down from his role as Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre in Belfast after five years in post.
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Dulwich Picture Gallery has appointed LOUISA BEE as its new Press Officer.
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Arts People
Meryl Hicks, founder and Chief Executive of New Dots, tells us who and what has inspired her most throughout her career.