From issue 265 News
Labour dominates the list of those who agree that the arts are crucial to jobs and growth.
New York design studios Atopia have claimed the award-winning design for the Olympic cauldron is identical to a design they put forward to Locog in 2008. Cauldron designer Thomas Heatherwick has...
From issue 265 News
A new online resource aims to help officers working in local authorities to make a better case for the role of the arts in achieving social and economic objectives – such as health or crime...
From issue 265
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER BROWN is to retire as the Director of Oxford’s  Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology in 2014. He will have served in the position for 16 years.
From issue 265
The new Head of Corporate Partnerships at Manchester Camerata is CLAIRE BARLOW. She will also continue her role as Regional Manager at Arts & Business North West. 
From issue 255 News
Two hundred venues across the UK will put on events to engage families as part of the Family Arts Festival this autumn. Four hundred events have already been confirmed, offering chances to view and...
From issue 265
Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington examines audience engagement, spending $135,000 on digital-centric lobby exhibits. Sarah Halzack finds out how it’s working.
From issue 265
US-born banker John Studzinski set up the Genesis Foundation in 2001, which with the Young Vic supports the professional development of young theatre directors in the UK.
From issue 265 News
The first parliamentary debate on the arts for five years has revealed that Lottery funding could be used to replace Grant in Aid as a means of plugging the funding gap.
From issue 265 Arts People
Nir Paldi, Co-Artistic Director of Theatre Ad Infinitum, reveals who has inspired him throughout his career.
Arts and culture had a  5% share of overall charitable giving. A year-on year rise of 7.8% brought the estimated total value of giving to culture to $14.44 billion in 2012.
The online station, called Stage Door, is encouraging musical theatre fans to raise money for the estimated £145k cost of its first year via a crowdfunding campaign.
A Swedish study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface looked into clapping habits at performances and found applause was down to the dynamics of the people in the crowd rather than...
A total of 80k people in the UK and 30k people in North America saw the play in cinemas on June 13 – a record breaking number for the four-year-old National Theatre Live programme.
From issue 265 Opinion
Marcus Romer offers a suggestion to anyone who wants to find out how they will be working three years from now.
Supporters of the campaign to maintain the skaters’ area underneath the Southbank Centre, which is threatened by the venue’s planned extension, have applied to Lambeth Council to protect...
From issue 265
Creative Scotland may be planning to spend £45k on an “opinion survey to better understand our customers,” but Andrew Eaton-Lewis thinks the funding body is still getting it wrong.
From issue 265
Kathryn Tully reveals the risk factors for investors who put their money into art.
From issue 265 Feature
Neil Anderson tells the story of The Public, the arts venue in West Bromwich they call the ‘pink elephant’.
From issue 265 Feature
In a relatively buoyant global art scene, Mauro Herlitzka looks at the increasing interest in Latin American art, aided by an acquisition programme for UK galleries.
The Chancellor is expected to announce that the Treasury will allow the major institutions to borrow up to £40m per year to invest in future growth, and give them access to their reserves, so...
The wife of the musical theatre composer, who helps run a philanthropic arts organisation with her husband, has encouraged wealthy stars to help plug the arts funding gap as she says Government cuts...
From issue 265 Feature
The arts and higher education have been working together in a number of ways to the benefit of both sectors, says Sue Hoyle.
Andrea Stark’s controversial sabbatical, revealed by AP in  February, is to end this month, at which point she will take up the full-time role of Chief Executive, which was announced the...
From issue 265 News
Arts subjects won’t be included the first tranche of proposed changes to the structure of GCSEs.

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