ENO features first trans singer
American Lucia Lucas, 38, has become the first transgender singer to perform with English National Opera, playing Public Opinion i…
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Radio 3 launches video game show
The new Saturday afternoon programme will feature compositions from video games including 'Final Fantasy', 'Legend of…
Website removes opinions on theatre bathrooms
'The Stage' has taken down two opposing opinion articles regarding the introduction of gender neutral bathrooms at th…
DCMS reports drop in arts engagement
New figures show a continuing trend of disabled adults engaging with the arts – but an ongoing decline in creative pursuits…
Moray museum likely to close
Falconer Museum in Forres is likely to close at the end of October after Moray Council cut £80,000 of annual funding for the…
Chimp’s art collection on sale
Mayor Gallery in Mayfair will exhibit artworks by Congo, a chimpanzee which produced 400 impressionist paintings within about thre…
Fast decline in creative apprenticeships
New figures from the Department for Education show the number of arts, media and publishing apprentices has fallen by a third sinc…
Chimps in the Commons fetches £9.9m
Banksy's "Devolved Parliament", which depicts MPs in the House of Commons as chimpanzees, sold for a record amount a…
Eastbourne theatre to reopen
Redwood Performing Arts Trust will reopen the Underground Theatre before Christmas, renaming it Grove Theatre. The trust was offer…
Theatre trashed by burglars launches appeal
Groundlings Theatre in Portsmouth may have to "start the business from scratch", its Artistic Director Richard Stride sa…
Old Vic removes single-sex toilets
The London theatre has replaced signs on male and female toilets with pictures of cubicles or urinals as part of a major refurbish…
Domingo resigns from LA Opera
Placido Domingo has resigned from the company, which he led for more than 15 years, amid investigations into allegations of sexual…
Creativity key as EU faces ‘turning point’, report says
The rise of populism, rejection from investors, a volatile labour market, climate change, digitisation and "economic cri…
ACE urged to declare climate emergency as RSC severs BP ties
Protesters say the funder’s draft strategy “neither addresses the urgency of the climate and ecological emergency, nor…
Banksy opens store to thwart card company
The elusive artist says the Croydon shop, Gross Domestic Product, is his way of countering a greeting card company that is alleged…
‘Serious structural deficiencies’ in music creation, survey finds
A survey of arts leaders, teachers and musicians finds composing is being sidelined, with unclear progression routes and declining…
Bradford cultural workers to strike
Library and museum staff planning 14 days of industrial action hope it will be "a wake-up call for the council to come to the…
Actress to sue over alleged religious discrimination
Seyi Omooba lost her starring role in a production of "The Colour Purple" after a 2014 Facebook post in which she said s…
£20m fine arts hub planned for West London
Residents of London’s affluent area of South Kensington will have a new art hub in their neighbourhood from May 2020. The &p…
‘Quiet crisis’ facing museum treasures, leaders warn
A letter from the heads of the National Museum Directors' Council, the Museums Association and the Art Fund says £2…
Huawei scrubbed from sponsor list
Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea has removed the Chinese technology firm from a published list of its sponsors. The company had previous…
Cash strapped arts organisations choose audiences over income: ArtsProfessional’s Pulse Survey, ‘The Art of Pricing’
More than 600 sector professionals have responded to ArtsProfessional’s survey looking at the delicate and emotive…
Museum operates illegally for 22 years
In a quirk of law, Newark Town Council has been operating the museum in its Town Hall illegally for the past 22 years, it has emer…
Tovey curates art treasure hunt
Doctor Who star Russell Tovey has curated Margate NOW, a trail of unusual art celebrating this year's Turner Prize. The trail…
