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Leeds, Plymouth, Birmingham, Leicester and Durham (pictured) are among the first cities to express interest in competing to be nominated as the UK’s first ‘City of Culture’ in 2013...
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Arts organisations’ current websites are unlikely to draw a new wave of previously unengaged audiences to the arts, according to Arts Council England (ACE). This is because those groups who are...
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The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) has handed over responsibility for the Cultural Olympiad to a new board, which is a joint initiative of LOCOG, the Government and the...
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The Musicians’ Union (MU) is celebrating the court victory of cellist Adrian Bradbury, who successfully sued the Lowry in Manchester under the Trades Descriptions Act, for using a pre-recorded...
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An empty car showroom, shop windows and deserted beach huts will all be venues for Side Show, a summer art and performance programme in Bournemouth. Programmed by 2nd Birthday, a not-for-profit...
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Proposals to place a duty on local councils to promote access to the arts (AP198) have taken a further step forward in Wales. The Welsh Assembly’s Legislative Committee is seeking input from...
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The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has sent a lawyer’s letter to a Wikipedia volunteer, claiming that 3,000 of its high-resolution images were “appropriated” from its website and...
A Midlands-based consortium is researching case studies of arts companies that have sustained themselves successfully without dependence on regular grant income, or who have learnt to adapt...
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Commenting on our news story on p1, John Matthews argues that a merger between ACE and the MLA could make sense.
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Arts Council England (ACE) has spent the best part of a year reviewing its organisational structure, and the process is still not finished (p1). With 20% of staff destined to lose their jobs, one can...
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A venue can become so much more than the sum of its parts if it opens up its spaces across artforms without sticking to definitions of what it is or should be, writes John Newbigin.
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Rick Bond believes that if you take care of the small things in your business, the larger ones will fall into place.
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Developing audiences cannot be delegated to the marketing department and run in a silo, says Julie Aldridge.
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Gregory Nash reveals the people who have inspired him most.
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Sarah O’Reilly (pictured) has been appointed General Manager of the Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, working alongside Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff. Previously at Tate, where she was...
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Incentives for volunteers and partners don’t have to be monetary, says Claire Eason-Bassett, but for small projects to be successful people must be rewarded and appreciated.
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Hollywood spends £1m for every minute of a completed film. How can it be done for a mere £100 a minute? Elizabeth Jane Baldry has found that all things are possible with fun, friendship and fairy cakes.
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Losing more than half of its funding nearly destroyed London Bubble, says Jonathan Petherbridge, but thanks to its audience it has new focus and energy.
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The arts are constantly crossing over boundaries between subjects, sectors and organisations, and this exercise can be a catalyst for new experiences and ideas. In the first of three case studies showing different relationships forged between the arts and other disciplines, Caroline Graty finds that conversations can help both artists and psychoanalysts discover new depths to their work.
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Theah Dix urges you to cast aside the coursebook and recognise that an arts-based approach can be a motivating new way to learn a language.
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The arts can be deployed to reveal the broader attractions of studying science, as Trevelyan Wright shows.
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Fears of funding losses are offset by confidence that arts organisations will show resilience.
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The Opera House in Blackpool and Derby Hippodrome are among the theatres most at risk through abandonment or neglect, identified by the Theatres Trust in its 2009 Theatre Buildings at Risk Register....
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Shadow Arts Minister Ed Vaizey has reaffirmed the Conservative party’s view “that the Arts Council has a vital role to play in supporting the arts”, following a report by Marc...
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“Free admission does not of itself mean people think museums and galleries are places for them to visit,” according to ‘Free to see – but what’s next?’, a new...

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