Fears that a new sculpture will be a magnet for scrap metal dealers have led to an artist brief that excludes the use of metal, but includes a budget for security.
Grammar school head claims Russell Group list of preferred A-level subjects for entry to red-brick university courses will lead to the demise of music and the arts in schools.
Sufferers from a range of mental health problems will be directed towards a list of 30 texts as part of their treatment. A list of “mood-boosting” novels, poems and short stories will...
From issue 260 News
Core funding to all of Arts Council England’s (ACE) National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) will be reduced by equal proportions in response to DCMS cuts to the arts budget over the next two...
From issue 261 Feature
Although there is increasing interest from health and social care providers in engaging older people in arts activity, a huge challenge is paying for it. Damian Hebron and Karen Taylor summarise a report they have written on this issue.
Ten dance and theatre companies, four orchestras, two musical heritage foundations and a number of nonprofit art galleries have all shut up shop following cuts which have seen one third of funded...
Principal dancer Svetlana Lunkina has left Russia claiming that threats had been made towards herself and her film producer husband. General Director of the Bolshoi, Anatoly Iksanov, spoke of the...
The cross-party committee said the Government “has not proved its case that GCSEs in the key academic subjects should be abolished”. 
Artist Tomas Georgeson has hidden a blank cheque for £8000 somewhere in Milton Keynes Gallery, which has had to hire extra staff to guard exhibits while people hunt.  
From issue 261 Feature
Paul Cann believes that the longstanding exclusion of older people from the arts will be changing thanks to a new online initiative which promotes everything from projects to resources to jobs.
The ‘Captcha’ system of verification is being replaced in an attempt to make it easier for the public to buy tickets online.
From issue 261 News
Researchers from across seven UK universities are coming together to explore the changing nature of copyright and the need for new business models in the digital age. The new Centre for Creativity,...
From issue 261 Feature
Martin Heaney draws some lessons from the highs and lows of establishing a new arts production Community Interest Company.
From issue 260
West Dean, home of the Edward James Foundation, has appointed RACHEL BILLSBERRY-GRASS to the new role of Director of Marketing and Development.
From issue 260
SARAH CAMPBELL is taking up the position of Head of Schools, Families and Young People at the V&A. She has been Education Officer at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge for the past six years.
From issue 260 News
Three Scottish communities have been recognised for offering creative opportunities for community involvement. Pathhead in Midlothian won the Creative Scotland prize for places with up to 2,500...
From issue 260 News
A group representing performers across Europe is campaigning for the removal of a provision that means performers can be taxed twice. Article 17 of the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-...
From issue 260 News
Common Practice, a group working for greater recognition of the role of the small-scale visual arts sector in London, has published ‘Value, Measure and Sustainability’, a summation of a...
Creative Scotland and Fife Council are in meetings over the theatre’s future.  A £75k shortfall must be met by Thursday to stop it going into liquidation. 
The Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee found there are fewer arts projects available and Councils and art groups are increasingly relying on volunteers to run them.
The Seat Plan website allows theatregoers to review how comfortable a seat is, its general condition, the leg room it has and what the view of the stage is like.
From issue 260 News
London’s Square Mile gains almost £300m from supplementary spending by arts attenders. 
The theatre will close on Thursday, after the board called for liquidators as funding cuts and running costs became unmanageable despite good ticket sales. 
A £40.5m project to transform the building into two theatres and two cinemas has failed to get a £5m injection from ACE’s capital grants funding scheme. 
From issue 261 News
Six theatres have been granted a total of £24.5k to spend on small scale capital projects, in a second round of grants from The Theatres Trust’s Theatres Protection Fund Small Grants...

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