A Canadian study found that art – providing it avoids abstraction, extreme conditions and depictions of water – could trigger previously unheard memories from people with dementia.
Creating an “extension of the UK theatre scene”, the Ambassador Theatre Group is to take control of the vacant Hudson Theatre in New York, opening it to the public from November 2016.
Brixton Council has agreed plans to move the venue to a purpose-built home in Somerleyton Road, with a 120-seat theatre, a 70-seat theatre and seven studio spaces.
Universal Music Group’s website, which was launched in 2012 featuring ‘jargon free’ reviews, podcasts and playlists for newcomers to classical music, is to stop commissioning original content.
The Really Useful Theatres Group has purchased the St James Theatre – a mere three years after it opened – for an undisclosed fee, potentially to use the venue as a space to develop new musicals.
An interim evaluation of the programme finds progress despite challenges and points to the need for new thinking on arts infrastructure in areas of low arts engagement.
Recognising that it “must do more” to encourage diversity in the arts, Arts Council England has announced four new diversity programmes and published workforce data for its largest NPOs.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey is supporting plans for a £19m Jacobean playhouse in Prescot which would form a “Shakespearean triangle” with Stratford and London.
A three-year programme at the Royal College of Music’s Museum of Music, supported by the Heritage Lottery fund, will create new displays and a performance space, and help to document and digitise around 45,000 items.
Germany’s Reiss Engelhorn museum has sued Wikimedia for making high quality images of public domain artworks in its collection – taken by the museum’s in-house photographer – available for download.
The culture, arts and leisure committee has been warned that libraries, museums and galleries may be forced to close after Stormont departments were told to budget for cuts of 5% and 10%.
A new organisation will combine the expertise and resources of four former dance organisations to offer a more comprehensive package of support to the dance sector.
The Earl of Clancarty called for the government to stop London Metropolitan University’s plan to move the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design from Aldgate to its main campus in Holloway saying the move would be a “tragedy for art, design and manufacture in this country”.
The trust is to close its Halesworth office and cut all jobs at the end of the year, but is “absolutely intent” on finding additional funding or resetting “the nature and scope” of the organisation to keep the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival alive.
Museums and galleries in Lancashire and Cumbria were closed as a result of recent flooding, with Wordsworth House and Garden in Cockermouth and Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal suffering extensive water damage.
