The One Percent for Culture campaign wants the city to allocate one percent of its $70 billion budget to the city’s 1,200 culture and arts groups.
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York Art Gallery closed its doors at the end of last year as it began preparations for an £8m renovation that will see it re-open at Easter 2015. The development, by architects Ushida Findlay,...
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Northampton has revealed plans to establish a Cultural Quarter that will recognise the contribution the arts make to the local economy, as well as acknowledging that creativity and innovation are...
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The annual hunt to find members of the theatre-going public to join the Olivier panel has begun for the 2014 awards. The Society of London Theatre is looking for members of the public to spend a year...
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PASCO-Q KEVLIN is the new Director at Norwich Arts Centre, joining from Arts Council England where he was combined arts and touring manager for the East. He replaces STUART HOBDAY, who held the post...
Artist William Stok said that the gallery in Stevenage had combined his art exhibition with a restaurant opening in an attempt to get free decoration.
The £406m project is due to be completed by 2015. A branch of New York’s Guggenheim museum is also being built there.
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PHOEBE GARDINER is the new Press and PR Officer for Globe Education. She replaces ELEANOR LOVEGROVE, who has moved to work in the press office at Westminster Abbey.
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Pallant House Gallery in Chichester has appointed GREGORY J PERRY as its new Director. He will leave his role as Director of Operations and Administration at the National Gallery, where he has been...
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Positive thinking among dance leaders, who make an international commitment to collaboration.
4500 pictures of creative activity have been sent in by the Scottish public to the See Us project. 100 entries will go on display in a touring exhibition later this year.
The new facility replaces the old Arts Guild Theatre, which was deemed unfit for purpose. Public spaces, including a cafe and rehearsal rooms, open this week with the theatres opening in the first...
Quad arts centre in the city has put forward plans to the council to use the building for artists. The first event could potentially be the photography festival in March.
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A new scheme to link dancers in South West England with those in Normandy and Brittany aims to stimulate artistic innovation and co-operation in contemporary dance between France and Britain. The two...
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Sales of tickets to play National Lottery games were largely unaffected by the launch of The Health Lottery, a new independent report has shown. There were no significant changes in the number of...
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A free networking event will give digital start-ups the chance to talk to major cultural organisations. Run by the Globe, in partnership with Wired Sussex and Komedia, partners attending include...
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A national entertainment events website has been launched by Johnston Press, one of the UK’s biggest community media groups which runs 250 of the UKs regional newspaper titles. Wow247 combines...
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A new agreement between the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) and the Department for Education will include a new licence with the Music Publishers Association meaning sheet music can be copied in...
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The first UK-wide music biennial, to take place in 2014, is seeking proposals from organisations to work with composers to create 20 new works to be performed across the country. Building on last...
The project proposes a permanent, non-partisan European laureateship that might celebrate other great European figures such as Goethe and Dante in future years.
Local MP Michael Dugher blamed Arts Council and Whitehall snobbery, as the British Federation of Brass bands only received 23k of funding last year.
Elaine Smith from Blackpool Civic Trust supports the demolition, saying "People are confusing memories with heritage."
The new facility marks the area’s largest investment in the arts in a generation.
The theatre lost £250k of local council funding after a review in October 2011.
The final shortlisted nominations will be put in place over the next two years. The last time the scheme was suspended was during wartime.