Brexit creating “huge barriers” for artists, Scotland’s Culture Secretary says
Scotland's Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop has requested an urgent meeting with her UK Government counterpart to discuss h…
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Cultural sector could reopen in June, PM says
Boris Johnson's roadmap out of lockdown includes the possibility of lower capacity events by May 17 and full reopening wi…
Abu Dhabi offers ‘golden visas’ to UK creatives
Feeling the Brexit blues? Abu Dhabi is courting British creatives with a 10 year work permit, routes to citizenship and heavy inve…
£288m Centre for Music axed
The City of London has nixed the beleaguered project in favour of a "major renewal" of the Barbican Centre instead.
Heritage and cinema to benefit from final round of Culture Recovery funding
22 more heritage organisations will benefit from £13.5m in targeted grants to restart regeneration and maintenance projects…
Brexit touring costs make National Theatre plans unviable
The National Theatre’s plans to tour its production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time to venues across Eu…
DCMS summit raises concerns over museum sector independence
A planned roundtable summit organised by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is raising concerns…
£30m upgrade planned for London’s National Gallery
The National Gallery has announced a £25-£30m upgrade to mark its 200th anniversary in 2024. The London…
Glyndebourne commits to 2021 festival
Glyndebourne has announced plans to stage its 2021 festival. The annual opera festival, which was cancelled in 2020 due…
Actor Seyi Omooba loses claim against Curve
Seyi Omooba has lost an employment tribunal claim against Leicester’s Curve theatre and talent agency Global Artists. T…
Restart live music or jobs will be lost forever, UK Music warns
UK Music Chief Executive Jamie Njoku-Goodwin is urging Boris Johnson to include live music in his roadmap out of Covid-19 restrict…
National Collections Centre planned for Coventry
Arts Council England will relocate its 8,000-piece collection to a former IKEA store in an effort to create a legacy for Coventry…
Lockdowns push young, disabled and less educated out of creative workforce
Researchers say we should be "especially worried" about a huge drop in creatives under 25 that could lead to greate…
College investment will boost jobs and skills in the Thames Gateway
Funding of £12.3m from the government’s Getting Building Fund has been awarded to enable North Kent College to build a…
Calls for open air arts to be first on the post-Covid reopening roadmap
Think tank Out To Perform and the Coalition for Open Air Theatre have sent an open letter to Culture Secretary State Oliver Dowden…
Dance school and artists’ studios completed on new cultural campus
The first phase of a six-year plan to develop a sustainable cultural campus in Harrow, north-west London, has been completed with…
Video podcast demystifies accessible theatre
A podcast by two accessible theatre companies is aiming to inspire confidence among arts professionals that they can build accessi…
UK has three months to save touring, sector warns
DCMS hopes to start discussions with individual EU states in the coming weeks, but industry figures say time is running out to fin…
Emergency funding lifelines for Northern Irish and Scottish arts
Northern Irish organisations' coronavirus deficits will be eliminated by new grants as Scotland offers new support for events…
Equity committee members resign over staff restructure
Five members of Equity's Scottish National Committee have resigned over redundancies at the union. Tensions have reportedly gr…
Arts and heritage face Government scorn over trying to ‘airbrush’ history
Major arts and heritage organisations face a dressing down over allegedly trying to "airbrush" Britain's history. Cu…
Scottish organisations strive to stay in Creative Europe
Leaving the influential programme in a time of crisis would be "a travesty" – and unnecessary for devolved na…
Creative Kickstart to place hundreds of paid roles
About £6m has been committed to give unemployed young people a foot in the door of the arts and cultural sector.
UK-France relationship explored through art
Artists and celebrities in the UK and France are exploring and celebrating the relationship between the two countri…
