Opera North set for £18m redevelopment
The scheme for the Leeds venue, which was granted planning permission last month, will include a new education centre and improved…
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Councils keeping artworks hidden
London’s councils together own more than 10,000 artworks with a value in excess of £150m, although only a fraction are…
Call to keep Tricycle Theatre name
Former artistic directors and board members of London’s Tricycle Theatre, now rebranded Kiln Theatre, are urging the venue t…
Record sales for Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has recorded increased ticket sales for the sixth year in a row, with a year-on-year increase of 5.2…
Rescue plan for Cumbria arts centre
Plans to raise investment for Farfield Mill in Sedbergh by issuing community shares have won strong backing from members.
Continued cuts to teaching time for arts in schools
New analysis reveals that in 2017, teaching time for music at Key Stage 3 was down 11%, drama was down 7% and art was down 9%. Tea…
More delays to opening of Croydon’s Fairfield Halls
The re-opening gala is set for June 2019, a year later than promised when the arts centre closed for refurbishment in July 2016. T…
New 200-seat theatre planned for Edinburgh
Part of the £45m Impact Centre, being built as a new home for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the studio theatre will be ava…
Arts Council reports collapse in London arts attendance
Arts Council England attributes the majority of the unprecedented 16.6 million fall to a drop in exhibition visitor numbers, but h…
Arts organisations ‘must look beyond funders’ goals’
Former Watershed Chief Executive Dick Penny stressed he is “more excited than ever” about working in Bristol as he lea…
Campaigners celebrate as museums end ties with oil giant
The Van Gogh Museum and Mauritshuis have said the decision to break with Shell was mutual, and sponsorship agreements that expired…
Counting errors blamed for slump in National Portrait Gallery visitor figures
The 800k drop reported between 2017 and 2018 was due to errors in technology installed by research company Ipsos Retail Performanc…
Stop feeling threatened by artists, culture ministers told
The power of culture to address social challenges has emerged as a key theme at a Culture Summit involving Government officials fr…
Museum tours can help ease chronic pain, study finds
Researchers at the University of California have reported that the majority of chronic pain patients who took part in a one-hour p…
Orchestra chief praises video games as ‘access point’ to classical music
A survey commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra found around 15% of children listened to classical music when it’s…
Labour demands review of Creative Scotland
The Scottish branch of the Labour party has written to Scottish Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop demanding an independent root and b…
NI arts campaigners join protests against political deadlock
Northern Ireland arts advocacy body ArtsMatterNI has backed newspaper BelfastLive’s #WeDeserveBetter movement, with campaign…
Music leaders condemn drop in GCSE music
Julian Lloyd Webber, Simon Rattle and Alison Balsom are among the 90 music leaders to pen a letter in The Times outlining their co…
Involve communities to stave off gentrification, cultural districts warned
A new report recommends a framework for good governance that includes partnership working and effective leadership.
Audience Agency opens up huge dataset
“The largest set of aggregated data on cultural engagement anywhere in the world” is being made available for academic…
Green light for ‘Bridge mark II’
A new 600-seat theatre in King’s Cross has been granted planning permission by Camden Council. It is understood the venue wi…
New name for Hackney Arts Centre
The restored Savoy Cinema, which is to reopen as a cultural venue next month, will now be known as Earth, short for Evolutionary A…
Former theatre worker jailed for indecent assault
David Wicks of Westergate, Chichester, who previously worked as a Production Manager at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon, pleaded gui…
GCSE results confirm continued collapse of arts in schools
The number of exams sat in arts subjects was down 10% on last year despite an increase in overall entries, and a faster increase s…
