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Conductors MARK WIGGLESWORTH and CHLOÉ VAN SOETERSTÈDE become Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO) new Chief Conductor and Principal...
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Art Fund has announced that SANDY NAIRNE, former Director of the National Portrait Gallery, will become the organisation's Chair of...
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Fuel theatre company has appointed INE VAN RIET as its new Executive Director. She joins Fuel this week, following the departure of INES...
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ANNA TURZYNSKI is to become the new Arts Director at Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley, succeeding JANE KAY, founder and co-owner of the...
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DAVID SULKIN OBE has been appointed the new Chair of the Board for Hoxton Hall in London, replacing interim Chair ALISTAIR ELDER who...

Latest Features

  • Watermill theatre

    A year after losing ACE funding, Berkshire's Watermill Theatre has had some sweet successes. Executive Director and Joint Chief Executive Claire Murray charts the downs and ups of a rollercoaster year. 

  • Young people leaping across a lavender bed in Ilam Park

    The sector’s resilience and creativity in navigating crises show how art and culture will sustain even in the toughest of times. Ben Walmsley explores what is now needed to build a more equitable, confident and sustainable future.   

  • Abstract art image of a head

    What do cultural leaders really think about the problems they, and the arts and cultural sector, face? Steven Hadley is the Editor of a new book on the subject. 

  • Panel discussion at Creative UK summit

    The cultural sector welcomed last week’s Spring Budget but, as Lara Carmona writes, not being able to leverage public investment at the scale needed is like having your best player benched indefinitely.

  • Musicians - violinists - performing at Peckham Levels

    A car park in Peckham has been transformed into a cultural hub, setting the benchmark for regeneration without gentrification, writes Joseph Winters.

  • Auditorium section - architect image

    Sadler’s Wells is a world-leading creative organisation dedicated to dance. Eimear Hanratty explains how O’Donnell+Tuomey architects went about ensuring its new building, Sadler’s Wells East, would make dance accessible to all.

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Readers' Comments

I suspect they're a big issue to those who are triggered by them. But then I can't really see what the harm is in saying that the...
Surely she should be able to recognise that just because she doesn't need something, doesn't mean that someone else might need it...
Nothing about the existential crisis being faced by the sector as local authority funding is cut, cost of living crisis etc. Are trigger...
I wonder why it is only 550 seats. At that size it is nearly not possible to make a profit except perhaps from in-house productions. 750...
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Great news for film, TV, orchestras and museums and galleries, but what about music venues and artists, and festivals who have been hit...
Here is yet another example of the Arts Council all at sea. Over the years the Arts Council England has relaxed its rules for applications...
The lessons of the Holocaust are among the most important lessons of the last century. It was the most egregious example of anti-semitism...
This is spot on and I could name the Arts Council Officer who proposed merging the funding streams and drive the policy through. I wish I...

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