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Hackney-based Zebedee Productions’ supper club, which will offer three acts of drama and a menu including “herb buttered roasted supreme of chicken”, has been criticised for its promotional images. One Twitter user said they were turning working class Londoner’s lives into comedy props and asking for “£55 to laugh at their expense”.

The industry body will work alongside Labour MP John Spellar on a campaign to enshrine the ‘agent of change’ principle in law, which would force developers to consider the impact their projects could have on music venues and other local businesses.

Tracey Emin has announced plans to open a sculpture studio in a Margate building that two London art dealers – Carl Freedman and Jonathan Viner – will also use to host their respective second galleries. They have plans to run an artist residency and host a rooftop sculpture project.

Artists in the North are invited to submit ideas for the plinth, which is located outside Liverpool Parish Church. The idea echoes London’s fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.

A council-commissioned report into the failed Hope & Glory festival, which was cancelled at the last minute following reports of crowd crushing, found the organisers culpable but also recommended the council be more involved in future event plans. The organiser has refused to accept responsibility, questioning the impartiality of the report.

Sheila Pratschke criticised the increase for 2018 as a “huge disappointment”, saying current funds would limit efforts to broaden support to artists. She requested a “significant uplift” from 2019, noting the Government had promised to double arts funding by 2024.

A collection of children’s illustrators and comic creators across Europe have joined forces through a new network, Pop Up Projects, to ensure knowledge and opportunities are shared across the continent after the UK leaves the European Union.