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Tate Director Nicholas Serota wields too much influence over what is considered good art, argues Ruth Dudley Edwards
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Mark Ravenhill tells the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that the arts can flourish without state funding.
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Terry Teachout on whether a city’s art collection is fair game for paying off a city’s debts.
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For Rupert Christiansen, Edinburgh in August is now a greedy and bedazzled city, unabashedly out for cheap thrills and quick profit.
Iron Maiden and the Arctic Monkeys lead the way as MPs, performers, promoters and police prepare to lobby for legislation controlling ticket resale.
A failure in financial control led to over £100k being stolen over 8 months, as bills for hotels, flights, tickets and drinks went unrecognised among legitimate expenses.
The state owns £4bn more "heritage assets” than was previously thought, including Glasgow City Council’s fine art collection, now thought to be worth £1.4bn.
The Council is seeking a private company to take over Preston Guild Hall, which could be demolished if no bidder is found to take on the running of the building and reduce the £1m a year...
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ACE Chief Executive Alan Davey allocates ‘personal’ fund to staff teambuilding and supporting pop music talent.
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Artform reviews will underpin the development of a longer-term plan for 2014-17.
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The Art Everywhere project, which will display images of art in public space including billboards, airports and bus stops from 8 August, has raised over £113k towards its £200k...
The 220-seat venue will form part of a £1.48m redevelopment of Lowlands Recreation Ground and is due to open in Spring 2014. Harrow Council is seeking a tenant to lease the theatre and café for...
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Outreach programmes like Leeds Grand and Opera North’s ‘Verve’ are among the benefits of funding large arts organisations, argues Alison Piling
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In light of the London Small Theatres report, Lyn Gardner asks whether we really need sustained investment in arts infrastructure when theatre can exist in any space.
The Institute of Contemporary Arts is due to launch a social media platform ‘Art Rules’ to allow users to make 100-character posts debating issues surrounding art and being an artist.
The theatre was able to clear its debt after a long-running legal dispute with insurance company Aviva was settled in the venue’s favour. Hackney Empire chief executive Clarie Middleton said...
The theatre’s site will be redeveloped after a report claimed the theatre was "unsustainable". Councillor David Jeffels said a theatre could form part of the redevelopment.
Stanley Town Council has unanimously voted to take over the running of the arts centre, saving it from closure and putting an end to speculation that the building would not continue as an arts venue...
Part-time catering staff at Tate galleries in London, Liverpool and St. Ives are employed on controversial zero hours employment contracts.
ACE’s annual review for 2012/13 reveals that the restructuring designed to halve its administration costs, cost £9.8m, including almost £4m for redundancies.
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This year’s collaborations between art and fashion, revealed by Rebecca Gonsalves.
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Premium ticket packages offer exclusive extras while some queue all day for tickets for less than a tenner, but is there a squeezed middle at the box office?
Cost-cutting measures at the Independent Print newspaper group mean the content of the paper will be trimmed, with writers including visual arts critic Charles Darwent and theatre critic Kate Bassett...
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Concerns that funding for arts and health research could be scaled down were among issues raised in a House of Lords debate on the Arts’ Contribution to Education, Health and Emotional Well-...
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The new Director of Development and External Affairs at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London is AMANDA JONES. She has previously worked as Head of Press for the Royal...