Revered Northern sculpture ‘pranked’ for Christmas
Anthony Gormley’s Angel of the North was adorned with a Santa hat by a group of ten pranksters, who slung abseiling ropes ov…
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Politicians call for ‘Town of Culture’ award
A group of Labour MPs, led by Yvette Cooper, has written to Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright urging him to establish a new ‘T…
750-seat theatre mooted for Kent town
Ashford Borough Council has rejected a petition to convert a former cinema – subsequently used as a bingo hall – into…
MP pledges to reopen struggling Welsh venue
Although Muni Arts Centre recently announced it had closed after being “dogged by financial problems”, Pontypridd MP O…
Research highlights inadequate toilet provision at West End theatres
The average theatre would need to extend its interval from 20 minutes to one hour to give all female audience members the chance t…
BBC arts to prioritise dance this year
The broadcaster’s series of new dance-focused shows, including talent competition The Greatest Dancer, aim to “bring t…
Slashing local arts budgets leads to additional financial loss, analysis suggests
Arts organisations in Bath have consistently leveraged three times as much financial support from other sources as they have been…
NI arts sector warned 2019 may be ‘most challenging year yet’
“The future is bleak unless new innovative solutions to the funding challenge can be found,” says the Chair of Arts Co…
£11m allocated to London’s ‘Creative Enterprise Zones’
Six zones across seven boroughs have been provided with funding to develop links between artists, local people and small creative…
Local council consults on £4.5m Welsh theatre plans
Ceredigion council is preparing for a public consultation on plans to either spend £4.5m relocating Aeron Valley’s The…
Class influences career entry but not career progression, research finds
Over 70% of respondents now working in music, the visual arts or museums/heritage come from households where the main income earne…
Liverpool stands by ‘insulting’ logo design competition
The city region authority is offering a prize of £800 for a “simple but visually impactful” design to be used ac…
Culture funding falls in Scottish budget
The budget allocation for 'Creative Scotland and other arts' includes £10m for Screen Scotland and a £6.6m boo…
Technology partnership preserves memory of Brazil’s national museum
Google Arts and Culture has created an interactive digital replica of the museum, which lost most of its collection to fire earlie…
London receives higher share of lottery good causes income, investigation finds
The Cities of London and Westminster, Islington South, Finsbury, Holborn and St Pancras received £4,640 per head over the pa…
First awards from Creative Scotland’s new touring fund
17 dance and theatre projects will share a total of £1.2m to support touring between 2019 and 2020. The fund was unveiled ea…
‘Women-only’ Swedish festival found guilty of discrimination
The country’s Discrimination Ombudsman said Statement festival, which described itself as “male-free”, was discr…
Mill Arts Centre changes council ownership
Banbury’s multi-use arts centre has been bought from Oxfordshire County Council by Cherwell District Council for £1, i…
Westminster City Council clashes with Andrew Lloyd Webber in parking dispute
The theatre impresario’s company, LW Theatres, is challenging a £280k charge incurred for suspending parking facilitie…
Pro-arts political candidates in America more likely to be successful, finds research
A survey of 3,000 adults by Americans for the Arts finds most people in the US approve of doubling federal government funding to t…
Birmingham arts organisations join forces to oppose local culture cuts
‘Love Culture, Hate Cuts’, a petition created by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the MAC and Town Hall Symp…
Free tickets for under 18s at English National Opera season
Any young person aged 17 or under will be able to get a free ticket in balcony seats on Saturday nights, as part of the organisati…
Music teacher shortlisted for global $1m prize
A music teacher who played an integral role in turning around the fortunes of a Bradford primary school through a new creative edu…
Income rises at national institutions despite funding cuts
In real terms, institutions sponsored by DCMS have increased their income by over a quarter in the past decade, despite a 19% redu…
