The Phoenix Brighton will create 674 square metres of artists’ studio space in a former brewery in Portslade, alongside galleries, community space, a café and 48 new homes.
Arts Council England’s national portfolio spend will be £27 per head in the North for 2018-22, compared with more than £71 in London, IPPR North has calculated.
The Radio 4 show is to be broadcast on BBC Two for seven weeks from September, featuring interviews, news, reviews and performances. The Saturday evening show will be fronted by the BBC’s Media Editor Amol Rajan, presenter Nikki Bedi and columnist Giles Coren.
Bellingham’s Fellowship Inn is to benefit from a £4m restoration, which will see the upper hall of the pub become a live music and theatre venue, with space for 250 people standing or 150 people sitting, and the creation of music studios and a cinema. The building will become home to charity Lewisham Music.
Greece will soon have diplomatic leverage to secure the return of the marbles, given the final agreement on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union will have to pass through national parliaments, the Chairman of the International Parthenon Sculptures Action Committee has claimed.
Plans to create new offices and a café at the National Gallery have been criticised by its neighbouring institution, the National Portrait Gallery, which says the view from its restaurant would be “harmed” by the planned expansion.
Edinburgh fringe veterans have taken issue with a light show staged by the “official” festival in St Andrew Square, which has been cleared of pop-up venues following a business decision.
Castle Howard has given up a total of 89 items, including 62 Roman antiques, in lieu of almost £5.5m owed in inheritance tax. All of the items have been allocated to National Museums Liverpool but will remain on display at the house.
The National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing is to merge with the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing to become the ‘Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance’ from 2018, led by Arts and Health South West. It will enter Arts Council England’s national portfolio as a ‘Sector Support Organisation’ and be a key partner in delivering the recommendations from a recent cross-parliamentary report on the arts and wellbeing.
Grant in Aid from the DCMS constituted a larger part of income at the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum, Tate and the National Gallery in 2016/17 than the year before, in part due to one-off capital grants, but increases in revenue funding and falls in self-generated income also contributed to the trend.
A video featuring the Mercury Prize-winning band, which was commissioned by the national portrait galleries in Edinburgh and London and highlighted the dominance of portraits of privileged, white people in their collections, was temporarily taken offline after it prompted a torrent of racist abuse.
The 110-seat pub theatre in Islington is planning to create a new a 250-seat auditorium and 85-seat studio in the £400m Islington Square development next door to its current site. The existing theatre will become a dining room for the pub.
The courtyard of the 18th century trading hall features new lighting and seating, and will host a seasonal programme of events with capacity for up to 7,500 people.
The Creative Industries Clusters Programme, led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will back eight R&D partnerships aimed at responding to challenges faced by publishing, music, film, video, design, architecture and related industries.