Wednesday, 12 April 2017
(IN ITALIAN) With public funding of culture in decline, seat prices at Milan’s La Scala opera house have increased by 47% over the past ten years – three times the rate of inflation.
Carissima Opera (Classic Voice)
The Most Expensive Opera Ticket in the World? (Slipped Disc)
Monday, 10 April 2017
Complicite theatre company has admitted using autocues to help actors with their lines in at least two recent productions, including ‘The Kid Stays in the Picture’ currently at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
Monday, 10 April 2017
In partnership with the Barbican, Sage Gateshead, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Storyvault Films, Sky Arts has launched a £1m fund that will commission 50 artworks exploring post-Brexit Britain.
Art 50 looks at post-Brexit Britain via artwork (ATV Today)
Monday, 10 April 2017
As well as seeking to establish a permanent migration museum in Britain, the project is launching a national Migration Museums Network, which will look at how migration is represented by cultural institutions.
Migration Museum Project secures exhibition space (Museums Association)
Friday, 07 April 2017
Hoping to become the ‘Almeida of West London’, The Playground Theatre will open in October in Ladbroke Grove as a 150 to 200-seat performance space built on a budget of £270k.
Friday, 07 April 2017
The Pavilion Theatre, a self-styled ‘family theatre’, has received criticism for requiring parents to prevent babies from being sick, and remove them from the auditorium if they cry. The theatre said the policies were a “common-sense approach".
Thursday, 06 April 2017
(IN GREEK) As part of its celebrations for European Capital of Culture 2017, Paphos has created a special series of stamps comprising monuments of culture, the sea and the natural environment.
Κυκλοφόρησε η αναμνηστική σειρά γραμματοσήμων για το Πάφος2017 (O Φιλελεύθερος)
Thursday, 06 April 2017
(IN ITALIAN) In a joint declaration issued in Florence, G7 ministers reiterated their commitment to stopping the trafficking of cultural heritage and urged states to “adopt strong and effective measures” to prevent it.
G7 cultura, nasce dichiarazione Firenze (ANSA.it)
Thursday, 06 April 2017
90% of theatre spaces in Malta and Gozo are outside of Valletta, the capital city. 37% are public, but the largest proportion – 45% – belong to the church.
Wednesday, 05 April 2017
The museum will open a new Photography Centre in Autumn 2018 to house the Royal Photographic Society collection following its transfer from Bradford’s National Media Museum. The centre will more than double the gallery space given to photography and house a library, studio and darkroom.
V&A announces plans to build new photography centre to house world-famous collection (London Evening Standard)
Wednesday, 05 April 2017
Former Artistic Director of English National Ballet Peter Schaufuss has bought St Stephen’s Church in Stockbridge and plans to create a ‘theatre in the round’ staging local, national and international dance companies.
Tuesday, 04 April 2017
London music and arts venue the Forge will shut down after eight years in operation. Co-founder Adam Caird said: “Running a music venue in these times is exceptionally tough”.
The Forge announces closure (Classical Music Magazine)
Tuesday, 04 April 2017
Annual figures from the Society of London Theatre show box office revenue grew for the 13th year in a row in 2016, while average audience levels increased from 776 per performance to 801 with over three quarters of all available seats filled – a new record.
Tuesday, 04 April 2017
Faceless Arts, which was set up in 1990 and engaged around 40,000 people a year in artistic activities, has closed after losing funding from Wakefield Council and Arts Council England.
Creative charity Faceless Arts to close after loss of funding (Wakefield Express)
Friday, 31 March 2017
Mikhail Novikov, the Deputy Director at the St. Petersburg museum, has been placed under house arrest on charges of suspected fraud in connection with the museum’s construction projects.
Deputy director at Hermitage put under house arrest (The Art Newspaper)