Tuesday, 09 September 2014
One of the longest serving directors of the Vienna State Opera, Ioan Holender, talks to Benedikt Weingartner about Europe, cultural politics and supporting young artists.
Pippa Joiner shares lessons learned from a project exploring how cultural provision can be extended to children and young people who are looked after by their local authority.
Wednesday, 03 September 2014
Collaborating with international companies can open up valuable funding opportunities, but the real benefits are artistic, argues Lyn Gardner.
Tuesday, 02 September 2014
Classical musician James Rhodes is on a one-man mission to transform music education in primary schools. Janet Murray finds out why.
Monday, 01 September 2014
A recent Broadway musical closed doors even though ticket sales were still strong. Pia Catton on why it is sometimes wise to quit while you’re ahead.
Elisabeth Braw examines the growing trend for company choirs and how they’re boosting employees' health, creativity and confidence.
Friday, 29 August 2014
As Northern Ireland arts organisations reel from unexpected funding cuts, Fionola Meredith argues that placing accessibility above all will starve the arts out of existence.
Native talks to cultural economist Diane Ragsdale about changes in the arts and society over the last thirty years.
Thursday, 28 August 2014
As the dust stirred up by Arts Council England’s latest National Portfolio funding announcement settles, ITC’s Charlotte Jones looks at the growing wealth gap between large and small arts organisations.
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Veteran theatre producer Thelma Holt discusses the past and future with Andrew Dickson.
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
What happens when you take two three-year-olds and two five-year-olds to see a postmodernist art exhibition? Sally Saunders shares her experience.
A massive overhaul of the California state and local correctional system has seen a system-wide sea-change with an emphasis on rehabilitative programmes - including the arts. Craig Watson tells the story.
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Bob and Roberta Smith step up their fightback against the government's “attack on the creative arts” with a new movie being launched to coincide with the publication of this year’s GCSEs.
Monday, 18 August 2014
The mainstream critics seem to have fallen out of love with Edinburgh, while fringe freesheets and blogs by young people have been thriving, observes Lyn Gardner.
Friday, 15 August 2014
‘Genius’, ‘perfection’, ‘brilliance’ – Tom Sutcliffe examines the mismatch between promise and fulfilment at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Can Google Glass improve the experience of live classical music? Ivan Hewett thinks not.
Sarah Crompton sees the trend for allowing photography in galleries as the surest path to depriving art of all purpose and meaning.
John Newbigin assesses the relevance of Britain’s education system in an era when the techniques, technologies and mindset of the world of arts and digital entertainment are feeding whole swathes of the economy.
Wednesday, 13 August 2014
Christine Henseler explains why an education in the arts and humanities is valued so highly by US leaders from the worlds of politics, science, business, medicine, and beyond.
Edinburgh’s response to a Fringe play by an Israeli theatre company reveals that the city’s image as a Mecca for Western culture is a phoney one, argues Prof. Tom Gallagher.