Strategies for a digital culture

Photo of spectators outside MoMA
20 Nov 2012

Oonagh Murphy’s research into how museums are engaging digitally with their audiences took her to New York. Here she reports on what she saw.

Successful cities

Photo of dancers leaping in front of Big Ben
20 Nov 2012

The World Cities Culture Report reveals how culture is as important as finance and trade to the success of a city. Munira Mirza explains why.

Charitable giving falls and the arts are the least popular cause

19 Nov 2012

Report finds only 1% of donors give money to the arts.

London leads the way

12 Nov 2012

The Mayor’s Education Inquiry arrived last month, following extensive consultation with stakeholders across London. But what does it mean for music education and the wider community arts sector? Lawrence Becko makes some suggestions.

Art and life

Photo of a theatre audience
12 Nov 2012

What is the value of the arts exactly and theatre-going in particular? Ben Walmsley asks why we engage in this mysterious pursuit and looks at the ‘evidence’...

State of play

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24 Oct 2012

Tina Mermiri examines recent research to discover what the arts – and its sponsors – can learn from their audiences

New audiences for contemporary work

Dancers
15 Oct 2012

David Edmunds describes how funding will allow Dep Arts to develop new approaches to increase access to contemporary dance and theatre while programming original and inspiring shows.

Intercultural connections

Picture of a self portrait created by one of the participants
24 Aug 2012

The impact of participatory art on the experience of new migrants and their interaction with a new cultural environment is now the subject of a European research project. Nancy Hogg explains.

Passing by

23 Jul 2012

How do ‘accidental audiences’ for art in public spaces experience performances and what impact does it have? Richard Turpin examines the evidence

Boards are barrier to progress

23 Jul 2012

Inactive trustees could be the Achilles heel in arts sector efforts to attract individual giving

London leads as a city of culture

23 Jul 2012

The cultural offers of the world’s most important cities, and the policy structures behind them, is the focus of a new report

If you treasure it, measure it?

21 May 2012

The wellbeing agenda is developing alongside a demand for evidence-based practice. Daniel Callcut explores what this means for arts organisations

One of a kind

21 May 2012

Tom Andrews explains how an arts programme celebrating kindness has made a difference to the way primary schoolchildren feel and act towards other people

Access is everything

21 May 2012

Suzanne Bull makes the case for disabled access to be at the heart of music venues’ strategic plans – not an afterthought

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