Which? has said the secondary ticketing market is “failing fans”, after it found resale websites are ignoring restrictions imposed by venues and touts are using software to bulk buy tickets.
A Canadian study found that eight and nine year olds with poor pro-social skills experienced a larger than average increase in these skills following a ten-month music programme.
Low-cost attempts to reduce environmental impact have paid dividends for arts organisations, although investment will be needed to achieve further reductions.
Around 40,000 historic instruments, including the world’s only octave contrabass serpent, are to be made publicly available via the Royal College of Music’s new online database.
UK institutions will partner with Indian organisations to showcase British creativity and strengthen cultural and economic ties between the two countries.
In the largest indoor Google Street View project in the world to date, the British Museum has become the first major UK institution to open up its entire collection for online visitors to peruse for free.
Although the museum is not ruling out future sponsorship from the oil giant, it confirmed that the current funding agreement will end in December. The decision comes after the Museums Association released new ethical guidelines strongly encouraging museums to only find sponsors “whose ethical values are consistent with those of the museum”.
Taking inspiration from Italy’s La Scala, the new 700-seat home for the Opera’s annual summer festival will be based in a Surrey Wood and intends to open from June 2017.
Those who attend the arts report significantly higher levels of happiness than those who don’t, but the opposite is true for those who visit libraries.
The Art Fund has had to call off its campaign to save Rembrandt’s portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet as the seller has withdrawn its application for export, but is proceeding with its sale.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is to combine Start Up grants, Transition funding and Catalyst small grants into a single programme with an upper limit of over £100k.
Leaving debts of over £300k, The Pantomime Partnerships Ltd – responsible for the management of the Theatre Royal – has followed the footsteps of previous operators Lincoln Theatre Ltd and ceased trading.
The Board and the Director of Ireland’s Abbey Theatre have released a statement acknowledging that their 2016 programme of work “does not represent gender equality”, responding to outrage on social media that the theatre will only work with one female playwright across the season.
New management at an 80-seat theatre space in Croydon’s community hub Matthews Yard will offer cheap rates to emerging theatre makers hoping to take work to the Edinburgh and Brighton fringe festivals.
Southwark Council has chosen to move forward with a proposal for a ‘community campus’ in Brixton, which will contain just 50 artists’ studios, rejecting other plans to convert a multi-storey car park in Peckham into 800 studios.
Two-thirds of England’s National Portfolio Organisations achieved growth in revenues from trading and philanthropy between 2011 and 2014, with the National Theatre leading the charge.
