Plans for Manchester's flagship venue The Factory are being changed, and the launch date put back by a further six months, after a review of the building's design revealed poor acoustics, an orchestra pit that is too small and an over-complex theatre design. The changes will cost an estimated £1.6m.
Banksy’s Balloon Girl, Vettriano’s Singing Butler and Gormley's The Angel Of The North were found to be among the public's favourites in a poll marking the launch of a new Samsung TV, The Frame. The TV will enable users to choose from more than 100 art images to turn it into a piece of art when it isn't being used as a TV.
The founder of the charity Community Arts Workshop, which provides art workshops for people with learning disabilities in Leamington Spa, has been convicted of five counts of gross indecency with a boy under the age of 14 during the 1980s.
More than 6,000 signatories are calling on the Welsh government to rethink its plans to commission a £395k ‘Iron Ring’ landmark, because its associations with Edward I are “extremely disrespectful to the people of Wales”.
A multimillion pound proposal to revitalise a derelict art deco cinema in Dalston, north London, has been approved by Hackney Council. The team behind East London’s Village Underground plan to part-open the ‘Hackney Arts Centre’ later this year and be fully operational in spring 2018.
Plans to expand and redevelop the Royal Shakespeare Company’s costume workshop, which have received £2.1m from Arts Council England, will allow the theatre to offer guided tours to visitors.
The local council said plans to develop the Pavilion Theatre would not go ahead because of the “large costs” associated with transforming the venue, but other alternative locations will be explored.
People queued from 3.30am to get tickets for the first ballet performance at the newly refurbished Hull New Theatre, part of the ongoing City of Culture 2017 events.
Ministers are considering making it a requirement for recipients of Government grants to disclose high earners’ salaries, which would encompass conductors and theatre directors.
The actor and campaigner for equal representation on stage and screen has criticised broadcasting regulator Ofcom for promoting “fake diversity” by not setting targets for people who work behind the scenes.
A creative district with “creative exchange, cultural collaboration and learning at its core” will be developed to link key cultural venues in the heart of the City of London.
In its long-overdue response to a public consultation on the implementation of the EBacc, the Government has ignored calls for a broader, more balanced curriculum and upped the pressure on mainstream schools to enter more pupils for the prescribed suite of GCSEs.
A 12,500-seat concert hall, conference centre and hotel is due to open in 2021, situated between the BALTIC arts centre and Sage Gateshead music venue. It will be operated by SMG, which will close its 11,500-seat arena in Newcastle.
Following a similar move by Sheffield Theatres last year, Bristol Old Vic theatre will no longer charge customers a transaction fee for bookings made on its website. The £1.50 fee will not be added wholesale to existing ticket prices to compensate, but absorbed into ticket prices across the board.
Creative subjects such as music, drama and art are being neglected while schools narrowly focus on drilling for new GCSEs, sometimes from year 7, Ofsted's Amanda Spielman said.
A new report notes that 47% of workers in the creative industries are freelance, compared to 15% of the workforce as a whole, and many feel they have never been consulted on the policies that affect them. It recommends protecting workspace and piloting ways of providing social security to improve the lives of self-employed people.
