Thursday, 08 June 2017
The local council has backed out of the competition following concerns it didn’t have enough time to build an effective bid for the title.
Thursday, 08 June 2017
Accounts for the year ending August 2016 show the deficit more than doubled, from £16.9m to £35.7m, and that five senior employees earned more than £183,000.
Wednesday, 07 June 2017
Tate Modern and the Hayward Gallery were among 12 cultural organisations around Bankside to issue a joint statement pledging to keep their venues “safe, open and welcoming to all”. Many museums and galleries have stepped up their security measures, including bag searches and restricted entry for vehicles.
Wednesday, 07 June 2017
An Upper Tribunal ruling could result in lower business rates for hundreds of museums across England and Wales. York Museums Trust has won an appeal for its business rates to be based on its net income and expenditure, rather than the cost of rebuilding, and its shops to be considered within its remit. It means annual savings of £10k for the trust and a backdated rebate of £100k.
York Museums Trust wins landmark business rates case (Museums Association)
Tuesday, 06 June 2017
The founding Director of South Wales’ logistics company ArtWorks, Pete Goodridge, died on 1 June following a road crash. His family said the National Museum in Cardiff – one of the institutions ArtWorks had worked with – had its flag at half-mast in his honour.
Tuesday, 06 June 2017
The venue’s announcement of the line-up for River Stage has been postponed following the terrorist attack that killed seven people in London Bridge and Borough Market on Saturday night.
Tuesday, 06 June 2017
Almost 200 professors at the University have signed a letter accusing the institution’s management of acting in an “ill-considered and unjustified way”, following plans to axe 171 jobs, including a third of arts staff.
Monday, 05 June 2017
Marylebone Cricket Club and the Academy are running a pilot scheme in primary schools, encouraging boys to take up ballet and girls to play cricket. £30,000 will be invested in dance provision for boys over the next three years.
Friday, 02 June 2017
To prevent the cost of the £16.8m redevelopment escalating, plans to extend the Edinburgh gallery into East Princes Street Gardens have been dropped. The expected completion date has been pushed from 2019 to 2020.
Hoskins’ Scottish National Gallery plans trimmed to save costs (The Architects’ Journal)
Friday, 02 June 2017
An LGBTQI refugee rights group, paid to take part in a performance in Greece, stole the work’s key sculpture to highlight the ‘fetishization’ of refugees and condemn the high cost of the event.
Μια διαφορετική απαγωγή (Typos-i)
Friday, 02 June 2017
Plans submitted to Westminster City Council could see the Society of London Theatre’s TKTS ticket booth in Leicester Square revamped as a two-storey structure featuring a café and a roof-top performance space.
Thursday, 01 June 2017
The refurbished arts centre will open next week with a new 115-seat auditorium, a café bar, and new changing rooms and toilet facilities.
The Calderdale chapel bought for £25 that is now a £6.6m arts centre (Huddersfield Examiner)
Thursday, 01 June 2017
The audiobook platform will work with drama schools and theatre professionals to support new and existing theatre talent. A $5m (£3.89m) transatlantic theatre grant will fund live and in-studio production of new plays.
Audible launches £4m play grant (The Bookseller)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
The Incorporated Society for Musicians (ISM) has released a Manifesto for Musicians ahead of the general election, calling for the new government to tackle the stigma around mental health, support small businesses, guarantee freedom of movement for creatives after Brexit, scrap or reform the English Baccalaureate, and strengthen the Live Music Act.
ISM releases Manifesto for Musicians (Rhinegold)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Deep-sea divers, scientists and instrument makers have been involved in Danish company Between Music’s production, which will see musicians play custom-designed instruments while submerged in tanks of water at Glasgow’s Tramway arts centre this October.
UK's first underwater concert to be staged in Glasgow (The Scotsman)