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Artist Phyllida Barlow is among 1,300 people to have signed a petition calling for the University of Chichester to abandon plans to replace the Otter Gallery with a “distributed gallery” spread across the university’s two campuses.

Siobhan Davies Dance and Gateshead’s BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art have committed to a four-year partnership. They will develop new dance works and touring opportunities, and support skills development in curating, producing and audience engagement within their organisations and in the wider visual arts and dance fields.

Protests at the museum’s decision to display a section of the condemned Robin Hood Gardens social housing estate at the Venice Biennale have been dismissed by Director Tristram Hunt. Writing in The Art Newspaper, he said the museum had been active in London since 1872, and will still be there “long after the keyboard warriors and ‘art-wash’ agitators have moved onto their next bout of indignation”.

The £2 billion 988-acre site, 60 miles from Beijing, will include performance venues, a museum, exhibition space for artist residencies and offices. It is the latest of a number of “so-called cultural towns” to be built by private developers who can obtain ample bank loans to fund construction.

Theatres may be exempted from proposed European Union energy regulations, which are predicted to cost UK venues up to £1bn. Save Stage Lighting campaigners met with the European Commission and secured the right to submit a draft exemption for entertainment lighting.