Friday, 24 April 2015
With Monaco’s Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo set to come to the UK, Mark Monahan explains how the world’s second smallest country is able to house an internationally-renowned ballet troupe.
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
The new Artistic Director of The Old Vic, Matthew Warchus, shares his vision for the theatre with Anita Singh.
Commitments in the major parties’ manifestos to cultural access and diversity are pointless, unless they also address the devastating effects of local authority cuts, argues David Pountney.
Inviting an orchestra to take up residence in a troubled German school has led to its transformation. Matt Pickles investigates.
Monday, 20 April 2015
Artists in Iraq are becoming more isolated as government funding dries up and an increasingly conservative society and middle-class emigration leads to a shrinking market for art. Jane Arraf investigates.
Matt Trueman endorses the view that the theatre critic's job is to make way for the good by demolishing the bad.
Friday, 17 April 2015
David Burgess examines Battersea Arts Centre’s Phoenix fundraising campaign and explains what has and hasn’t worked.
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
The Whitworth recently reopened following a £15m redevelopment. Nicola Walker explains how it seized the opportunity to become more environmentally sustainable.
Monday, 13 April 2015
If we are to avoid dance becoming the privilege of a moneyed elite, then funding for education needs to be increased, at least to the levels of music education. But we can’t rely on the Government to plug this gap, says Ian Taylor.
In our increasingly technologically driven world creativity is as vital as ever, explains Vikas Pota. So we should be concerned about a school curriculum that over emphasises STEM subjects and standardised testing.
Friday, 10 April 2015
Two upcoming productions based on painful news stories – ENO’s ‘Between Worlds’, dramatizing 9/11, and Park Theatre’s ‘An Audience With Jimmy Saville’ – raise serious questions about the extent to which artists can and should engage with tragic events.
Richard Jordan questions whether reform to the Oliver Awards nominations process has ensured that the industry's premier awards 'still reflect the year in London theatre'.
Wednesday, 08 April 2015
With War Horse and Matilda bringing in the big bucks for the National Theatre, more subsidised theatres are being encouraged to self-produce in the commercial arena. It’s a brilliant innovation, says Matt Trueman, but the fall-out could be disastrous.
As the Hayward Gallery prepares to install Carsten Höller’s vast winding slides, Kriston Capps warns that this widespread zeal for spectacle is taking a toll on galleries and their place in society.
Tuesday, 07 April 2015
Michael Kaiser warns of the potential dangers facing arts organisations that rely too heavily on the generosity of a single philanthropist.
Rosemary Squire tells Will Smale how the combination of owning its own theatres and producing its own plays has proved to be a resilient business model for the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Antoine Froidefond investigates the dilemmas facing the worlds most popular museums as visitor demand puts their physical infrastructures under increasing pressure.
Wednesday, 01 April 2015
Venice is looking to cultural tourism to reverse the fortunes of its opera house with an extended season, a limited repertoire and an ultimatum to performers.
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Rupert Christiansen uses the recent case of Mid Wales Opera, a company that gained funding from Arts Council Wales but not Arts Council England, to explain why the arts funding system is in disrepair.
Hannah Williams explains why personal photography may be the key to engagement for museums and other arts venues.