Charity founder resigns all UK arts positions over ‘alarming rise of antisemitism’
Candida Gertler, co-founder of the Outset Contemporary Art Fund, has resigned from the organisation’s board of trustees citin…
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Security guard strikes at Natural History and Science Museums suspended pending talks
Security guards at the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum suspended a planned strike on this week (03 December) to allo…
Future of Heritage Schools programme yet to be decided
The government has not confirmed if it will continue to finance Historic England’s Heritage Schools programme beyond the end of th…
Scottish budget: Huge ‘relief’ that arts and culture funding will rise by £34m
The Scottish government has pledged to make a series of funding increases to the country’s arts and culture sector as part of it…
Summer visits to DCMS museums and galleries down year-on-year
There were almost 12 million visits to museums and galleries sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) betwe…
Sadler’s Wells disrupted by oil protesters
The opening night (3 Dec) of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London was disrupted by campaigners from Foss…
Council accuses theatre of purposefully operating at a loss
Hillingdon Council has accused the operators of west London’s Beck Theatre of purposefully running the venue at a loss. At a mee…
British Museum ‘in advanced talks’ over return of Parthenon marbles
The British Museum is in advanced talks with Greece over the future of the Parthenon marbles, according to the Guardian. The newsp…
Berlin Mayor defends culture budget cut
The Mayor of Berlin Kai Wegner has defended plans to cut the German capital’s arts budget by over 12%. The cut, equivalent to mo…
Touring Europe post-Brexit ‘simply not viable’, says Bryant
Arts Minister Chris Bryant has admitted touring for musicians post-Brexit is “simply not economically viable”. Bryant’s comm…
Arts Council Wales to receive £1m new funding
That Welsh government has announced that arts and cultural organisations will receive £1m in new funding in this financial year,…
Calls for increased support to young creatives outside formal education
Young creatives who do not go to university should be able to access financing routes akin to student loans, according to the reco…
London Museum cleaners win employment tribunal over unfair treatment
Cleaners at London Museum – formerly Museum of London – who claimed they were unfairly treated following the organisation’s closur…
RSC expands schools touring to ‘record’ levels in 2025
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s schools touring programme will be viewed by an estimated 24,000 young people next year, the larg…
Badenoch lashes out at Labour for settling Kneecap discrimination case
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has defended a controversial decision she took as a minister to withdraw a government arts…
Bradford 2025 aims to ‘transform health and wellbeing’ across district
Bradford 2025 has released details of its Creative Health programme, saying it intends to drive lasting, transformative change tha…
Museum director: Budget gave no ‘succour’ – it is down to us to find new ideas
Director of Derby Museums Trust, Tony Butler, has said that measures such as the introduction of a tourist tax in the area or emer…
Backlash against ‘brutal’ Berlin culture budget cuts
Around 450 Berlin arts organisations that receive state subsidies have launched an appeal to the city’s Christian Democrat-led g…
Former theatre chief jailed for embezzeling £75k
A former theatre leader has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting embezzling money from a children’s drama group…
Council cuts place Midlands museum and theatre at risk of closure
Cannock Chase District Council has proposed closing the Museum of Cannock Chase and the Prince of Wales Theatre as part of measure…
Nandy announces next phase of CoSTAR creative tech network
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced the next phase of UKRI’s Convergent Screen Technologies and performance in Realtime (…
RSC to research AI through creative clusters funding
Cultural organisations, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Birmingham REP and Birmingham Opera Company, will take part in re…
DCMS public bodies ‘may face financial sustainability issues’
Some of the public bodies sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) could struggle to continue to operate du…
Youth-led heritage projects receive further funding
More than 20 heritage projects across England will receive funding from Historic England to empower young people to explore and co…
