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Arts professionals are being asked for details of their income, background and aspirations for a survey, the results of which will inform discussions at a ten-day event series called ‘Panic!’, produced by Create, Goldsmiths, the Guardian, the Barbican and British Art Show 8.

Funding has been granted to a number of British cultural organisations, including £740k to Shakespeare’s Globe for a tour and education programme, £500k to the Royal Opera House for a training programme for Chinese students and £500k over three years to London’s South Bank for a new Love China Festival.

Conservative MP Nigel Adams is calling for the BBC to justify the millions of pounds it has invested, alongside Arts Council England, in the digital art initiative The Space. Responding, the BBC said the site was intended to “support greater digital access to the arts”.

The Theatres Trust’s annual register of the most at-risk theatres involves six in Manchester and nine others in the north of England.

Plymouth City Council said that it could not justify a £6m spend on the ‘chalk giant’ artwork, shelving the idea and a possible feasibility study. However, a Freedom of Information request by The Herald revealed that the anticipated cost was under £1m.

An Oxford University researcher has found that education is a bigger indicator than social status or income of whether someone participates in arts or cultural activities.