Senior arts staff sidelining digital work, research finds
Digital skills are spread thin in cultural organisations, with only one in six of those in the most senior strategic roles identif…
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No-deal Brexit threatens immediate end to European funding
A new statement from the Creative Europe Desk UK says previous promises of full access to the programme until December 2020 are &l…
Details emerge about London’s ‘first purpose-built immersive theatre complex’
Producers behind the project say Space 18 will be spread over 42,000 square feet, comprising seven buildings and more than 200 roo…
Talawa to move to Fairfield Halls
The theatre company, currently based at Bethnal Green’s Rich Mix, will have headquarters with a new 200-seat studio space at…
Creative and cultural district planned for Somerset
West Somerset Council has granted a loan to community group The Onion Collective to create an arts, cultural and social enterprise…
T levels ‘will fail without 25% increase in student funding’
The Association of Colleges warns that the skills gap will continue to widen and UK prosperity will be at further risk without an…
Arts organisations urged to become ‘evidence champions’
A new guide to evaluating arts and cultural learning explains the importance of sharing evidence to help organisations impro…
Success for creative businesses is more than just creating jobs, study concludes
A three-year project delivered by five universities in the North East helped hundreds of creative businesses test new ways of work…
New home for Ilford Arts
The organisation, known for its new opera productions, will move into a Grade I-listed house owned by Mr Bean Director Paul Weilan…
Artist threatens to pull work from London gallery over sponsorship links
US photographer Nan Goldin has said she will not go ahead with a retrospective of her work at the National Portrait Gallery if it…
Ex-theatre in Salford to become flats
The 2,500-seat Crown Theatre in Eccles, which hasn’t been used as a theatre since the early 1930s, will be turned into 80 fl…
Royal Academy art school receives £10m from Tetra Pak heirs
Hans and Julia Rausing made the donation to the Royal Academy of Arts postgraduate arts school to “ensure its success for th…
Biggest ever protest against oil sponsorship at British Museum
Over 300 people demonstrated against BP’s sponsorship of the museum’s temporary exhibition on the Assyrian king Ashurb…
Guernsey plans to restructure arts funding
A working group has concluded that for the island to create “sufficient and sustainable” funding for the arts, it shou…
Festival funding decision-making criticised in Northern Ireland
Councillor Nuala McAllister said a decision to provide £40k each to four festivals in heavily unionist areas of Belfast was…
Arts cuts on the cards in South Wales
The local authority in Neath Port Talbot has given the green light to a new budget with an increase in council tax and savings of…
ICO calls for greater transparency for arm’s length arts services
A proposed extension to the Freedom of Information Act would see leisure trusts, which increasingly run arts services, returned to…
Slow progress on diversity at England’s largest arts organisations
The proportion of ‘unknown’ data on ethnicity at large organisations has rocketed up, raising serious questions about…
Young people under-represented in the arts, research finds
Detailed information on the demographics of the creative workforce has been released for the first time in seven years.
Calls to support rural culture in Scottish Government consultation
Ministers have been warned that plans for a new Governmental culture champion have been met with ‘mixed’ reaction from…
Heritage gives £4bn boost to Scottish economy, report finds
The increase has been attributed to a 2m growth in tourist visits in one year.
Luxury flat owners lose privacy case against Tate Modern
Lawyers for the gallery defeated arguments put forward by the owners of the £4m flats that they were under “near const…
Art and music classes boost academic performance, finds decade-long study
A longitudinal study of low-income students in Florida – who were tracked from kindergarten to eighth grade – assessed…
Academic collaborations central to new Bloomsbury Theatre programme
The University College London-run venue, which opens this week after a three-and-a-half-year revamp, will investigate how research…
