Freelands Foundation funds Black-led visual arts organisations
Freelands Foundation has awarded £608,000 in the form of seven new grants to small and medium-sized Black-led visual arts or…
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ArtsPay Survey 2022: preliminary findings
Initial findings of ArtsPay 2022 survey reveal earnings growth for full and part-time workers failing to keep pace with inflation,…
Initiative to improve accuracy of public performance royalties
A new music industry initiative is hoping to drive more accurate royalty payments for artists and songwriters from public performa…
New West End theatre to open in autumn
A new build West End theatre will open this autumn, the first for 50 years. The theatre, called @sohoplace, forms part of a £…
Ukrainian Cross awarded Grade II listed status
A second world war Ukrainian Cross in Cornwall has been awarded Grade II listed status by DCMS. It is being granted to “reco…
DCMS launches consultation on how to spend dormant assets
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a public consultation on what social and environmental ca…
ACE embeds health and wellbeing targets into delivery plan
The funder publishes a dedicated Creative Health & Wellbeing plan, which includes a commitment to develop the use of arts and…
Arts Council of Wales begins review into funding process
Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has opened a consultation into the way it allocates its funding to arts organisations. Known as The In…
Government urged to increase support for EU tours
A cross-party group of MPs and peers set out a roadmap for making EU touring simpler and more financially viable for musicians and…
Leicester gains record for tallest street art in Europe
Europe’s tallest piece of street art, rising 82 metres up the side of a towerblock in Leicester has been completed. The piec…
Exclusive: Major arts organisations affected by ransomware data breach
Southbank Centre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera House and The Old Vic among many UK arts organisations affected by huge d…
Dance school drops ballet from auditions
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) in Leeds has announced that it will no longer require candidates to perform balle…
Natural History Museum ‘on path to irrelevance and failure’
The Natural History Museum (NHM) is “set on a course that can only lead to irrelevance and failure”, a former member o…
Work begins on £3m development of Coventry’s Albany Theatre
The Albany Theatre in Coventry is undergoing a £3m redevelopment that will include a new studio theatre, two education space…
Inclusivity drive for independent music venues launches
Independent music venues will be encouraged to form a national network offering daytime programmes of music-based activities to en…
Art Fund announces museum of the year
The Horniman museum in South East London has been crowned the Art Fund museum of the year. This year’s edition of the annual…
Teachers call for Science Museum gallery boycott
An open letter signed by more than 400 teachers and educators is calling on the Science Museum to drop oil giant Adani as sponsor…
UK Music opens workforce survey
UK Music has launched the latest edition of its UK Music Workforce Diversity Survey. First launched in 2016, the biannual survey a…
Wrexham to bid again for UK City of Culture
Wrexham will make another bid for the title of City of Culture in 2029 after recently losing out to Bradford for the 2025 title. M…
Oil rig to become interactive art installation
A decommissioned oil rig will be transformed into an interactive art installation as part of a project to change perceptions about…
Successful CDF bids share commitment to cultural legacy
Local authorities in the areas of the seven funded projects in Cultural Development Fund round two are found to have strong cultur…
‘Strong case’ for ACE to increase creative grant limits
Independent evaluation of ACE programme supporting individual creatives to work on personal projects suggests £2,000 increas…
Concern over exodus of arts marketing professionals
The Arts Marketing Association (AMA) has launched a series of job templates to help tackle the “growing gulf” between…
Short films highlight role of arts in pandemic recovery
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has produced three new short films as part of its Pandemic and Beyond project, eac…
