Yvonne Farquharson believes that academic research and evaluation are essential to demonstrate the clinical impact and cost-effect…

How much has the arts marketing role changed in the last twenty years? Strikingly, says Sarah Chambers, who examines what is now r…

New approaches are refreshing our ideas about what constitutes art and science, and new technologies are enabling the blurred boun…

Meurig Bowen sees no problem with the current proliferation of festivals in the UK.

Doncaster’s new arts venue opened in September – a response to negative comments about the town’s hist…

The Pensions Regulator recognises that the arts and entertainment industry faces particular challenges with pensions auto-enrolmen…

Chris Bannerman tells how he reluctantly became a key driver in a complex collaboration involving choreographers, dancers and…

Why do we need festivals? In the first of two articles about festivals, Holly Payton-Lombardo asks if we simply enjoy coming toget…

Mahmood Reza, a big fan of business planning, explains why it is vital and demystifies some of the terms and tools commonly used.

A new wave of artists’ tours encourages us to look differently at the public spaces (like car parks) we see around us. Bill…

Maggie Clarke believes that this is a good time for outdoor arts, with investment, partnerships and networks raising the bar and r…

The Bloomsbury Festival in a Box outreach scheme is tackling cultural exclusion, reports Cathy Mager.

When the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust sought a new chief executive it chose someone with a financial background and not a museum…

Theresa Lloyd and Beth Breeze share some insights from their study of the attitudes and habits of potential donors.

Gillian Taylor looks at how festivals can involve communities in making site-responsive works that create a sense of pride in lost…

Skilled and experienced in their craft, but with their physicality threatened and changed by time, what does it mean to be an olde…

Group singing brings many benefits to people living in areas of disadvantage, according to a new report by Evan Dawson and Ka…

Working in partnership with a Ugandan arts organisation has been a fraught experience (an understatement) for Blackpool’s Tr…

The government’s new primary sports funding will increase dance provision in primary schools. Sally Fort urges dance practit…

Emma O’Neill reflects on how the spirit of a gallery can enhance a touring exhibition.

Many see zero hours contracts as exploiting workers, but Eleanor Deem points out that the flexibility they offer can prove invalua…

Arts Development UK’s latest survey on arts spending in local authorities in England and Wales reveals a "dramatic and…

When we commissioned Jessica Hepburn to write about fundraising, she wondered if she really had anything new to say. She cert…

Shonagh Manson shares her vision on how the relatively small Jerwood Charitable Foundation can directly support the early careers…