Election 2019: What’s in it for the arts?
AP looks at the promises set out in party manifestos. This week: Labour, Liberal Democrats and Green Party
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Museum trust mulls legal action against council
Falconer Museum trustees say a dispute with Moray Council is “heading towards litigation unless wiser counsel prevails&…
Cambridge Junction set for revamp
Cambridge City Council has approved £250,000 to contract architects Levitt Bernstein to redesign the 30-year-old arts centre…
Theatre company allegedly owes £5m
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group, the National Theatre, international producer GWB Entertainment, Australian promot…
Activists gatecrash British Museum event
Members of the organisation BP or not BP? dressed as Greek statues covered in oil to protest British Petroleum's sponsorship o…
English National Ballet turns on Prince Andrew
The company has joined a growing list of institutions that no longer want the Duke of York as their patron after he defended his f…
Publishing workforce is diversifying
White people comprised 84% of the publishing workforce last year – 2% less than in 2017 – according to a 700 person survey by Publ…
Row over using the word ‘art’ in Arts Council England draft strategy
London arts leaders were told the word is “divisive” but wanted it included anyway.
Grants model of arts funding must change, Creative Scotland told
A review of international approaches to funding culture concludes that “change is inevitable”.
RAF Museum under fire for arms company’s exhibit
Campaigners say MathsAlive!, an interactive exhibit aimed at children aged seven and up, promotes its presenter, arms manufacturer…
Guerrilla Girls target MoMa
Advertisements by the activist group have been placed outside the New York museum, saying that it should "kick Leon Black and…
Artists face financial squeeze as ‘perfect storm’ of market trends favours the elite
Artists will increasingly need multiple income streams and brand collaborations to fund their creative practice in an Instagram-fu…
Die-in at V&A over Sacklers
Photographer Nan Goldin has led a die-in in the museum's Sackler courtyard entrance to protest cultural organisations acceptin…
‘Stolen’ Banksy up for auction
'The Drinker', Banksy's sculpture satirising 'The Thinker', could fetch up to £1m. There is a dispute ov…
Value of UK music rises to £5.2bn despite Brexit fears
Employment hits an all-time high and Britney Spears delivers a boost to the Yorkshire and Humber economy.
Death threat against NPO boss amid booking controversy
Middlesbrough Mayor argues "if we censor Chubby Brown then we have to censor lots of acts".
Ex-Opera House musician stole £185k
Richard Clews, 53, stole musicians' royalties from PRS for Music, where he worked after losing his position as a French horn p…
Derry museum trust loses High Court case
Bloody Sunday Trust has been ordered to pay £210,000 to contractors involved in the redevelopment of the Museum of Free Derr…
Brent 2020 promises to ‘challenge definitions of culture’
The Chief Executive of the London Borough’s Council said the year-long programme would examine the relationship between powe…
Dorset theatre slammed for ‘racist’ poster
Actor Sir Lenny Henry has criticsed the Bournemouth Pavilion for decorating its dressing room with an old advertisement depic…
Croydon pushes for Borough of Culture
Croydon Council says it will renew its bid for the title in 2023 after losing out to Waltham Forest and Brent in the previous comp…
Cost of The Factory could rise beyond £130m
As Manchester City Council races to get the venue finished for 2021, only a third of construction packages have been awarded.
Counterfeit art displayed in royal residence
Tony Tetro has claimed he forged a Monet water lillies painting on loan to Dumfries House, one of Prince Charles' residences….
V&A Dundee to pay Living Wage
The museum has become an accredited Living Wage employer as part of Dundee's commitment in March to be a Living Wage city. V&a…
