From issue 194
Aosdána, the affiliation of creative artists in Ireland, has elected eight new members, including Gary Coyle, John Gibbons and Louis Stewart from the visual arts. The Arts Council of Ireland...
Audiences Wales, the arts marketing and audience development agency for Wales, has published a new guide to market research. The latest ‘Learning On Demand’ guide is available free from...
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The news that the cultural and creative sectors, including the arts, will have access to Government funds to support new jobs is an important one on several levels. It puts us at the table alongside...
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In the third of our special series on surviving the recession, Caroline Miller urges the dance world to seize its chances while the profile of the artform is high.
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Anne Millman and Paul Millman ask whether we can learn from the revolution in the cricket world that has seen audience numbers rocket.
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Aiming to provoke a new debate on how we value the arts, Hasan Bakhshi, Alan Freeman and Graham Hitchen believe that cultural economics provides us with an important new way of thinking.
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LIFT Festival has appointed Laura Greenfield as Development Manager and Hannah Kerr as Communications and Marketing Manager. Laura was formerly Fundraising Manager at Clean Break and continues to be...
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Arts and science bring out the best in each other. Emma Quinn explains how.
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Alison Morris highlights the perspective that disabled people can give on debates between art and science.
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Bergit Arends shows how artists can help museums to see themselves in a new light.
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As a new national centre opens, Paul Anderson looks at the development of carnival as an artform.
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Ruth Oakley describes an artistic critique of indulgence in London’s square mile.
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Arts Professional reveals the career paths of the sector’s senior managers.
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It was interesting to read your recent editorials (Platform, AP191 and AP192). In the craft sector, creativity, entrepreneurship and enterprise are natural bedfellows. We welcome the dialogue between...
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ACE protects RFO funding, while other UK arts councils and organisations await their fate.
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Nineteen professional artists from across the arts disciplines have received a Creative Wales Award, and Michael Cousin, Sioned Huws, John Metcalf and Laura Thomas have received the inaugural...
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A new fund of £40m, support for the Town Centres Initiative, and a £4m increase in the Grants for the Arts (GfA) budget have been announced by Dame Liz Forgan, the new Chair of Arts...
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A group of key figures in the worlds of arts and education has called on Government and local authorities to take up a new approach to culture and learning. The Culture and Learning Consortium,...
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The Department for Children, Schools and Families and the DCMS should promote opportunities for every child and teacher of art “to work in an art gallery, or with an artist, craft worker or...
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Large decreases in business, charitable and individual giving to the arts have been revealed by Arts & Business’s (A&B) report, ‘Market Trends 2009’. Based on responses...
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The new £15m Hull Truck Theatre has opened, complete with a new piece of artwork on the roof. ‘Light Curtain’ (pictured), by Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier, is made of red...
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Digital infrastructure, intellectual property rights and continuing investment are among the terms of reference for a group appointed by Shadow Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to review the creative...
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) has received a £500,000 Community Assets grant, funded by the Office of the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office. The money will be used to modernise and expand BAC...
From issue 193
While I realise that Platform has been devoted to Mammon for the past few issues, readers must realise that the subject of money will not go away soon – the recession, the impact of the Budget...