The front page of the VAGA website is emitting a sadly repetitive mantra: A Foundation closed; Ikon Eastside to close; Animate Pro…

‘Collaboration’ is a word met by many raised eyebrows. It suggests too many cooks, lots of crossed wires and extra adm…

I was in two arts venues in one of our fine cities last week. On both occasions I had to walk past an information desk, a ticket b…

They say there is a rat within 15 metres of every human being; I wonder if the same applies to writers. One of my favourite activi…

At a first glance, the question above might appear a strange one. It’s fairly apparent to anyone working in dance what the role of…

Contemporary dance has always been just a little bit cool. It may not be rake-in-the-money cool, or even city-street-corner cool,…

About nine months I sat, along with some other staff at B arts, in a room with friends from Stoke-based digital and music collecti…

I’ve been preparing for an audition recently. I’m learning a particularly tricky bass line played by one of the stalwarts of the l…

Last week was a very interesting week indeed for the arts in general. For me, not so. The BBC reported the Forbes Top 100 Billiona…

I recently visited rural West Dorset twice in a week. An early evening visit to the beach enclave of Burton Bradstock prior to a T…

Like pretty much every Internet user, I have pop-up blockers on my web browser, spam filters on my email and always ignore the adv…

 This week (7-11 Feb) is Social Media Week, the third annual celebration of the growing popularity of Social Media. This grow…

 This lunchtime, I took a trip around the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. I strolled through (selected) corridors as if I was t…

A penchant for illusion has been around for years. Illusionists and tricksters are everywhere from the Victorian theatres of the p…

I tend to get quite hung up on what exactly ‘art’ is, and I have pondered seemingly endlessly on this matter. Recently I’ve been d…

Yesterday the movers and shakers and grey old men of the arts industry met at State of the Arts, a conference ‘to debate iss…

Being advertised at is easy to ignore. I barely glance at the right-hand side of Facebook now, and if you have tweeted about how a…

At a recent Devoted and Disgruntled satellite event, I met two members of Filskit Theatre – a company using innovative proje…

Sitting at my desk this week I had two really rubbish pieces of news in less than half an hour. First, I was told AFoundation was…

Politics, as Andrew Neil recently pointed out, has gone posh. The music scene has never been posher. So what about arts and cultur…

The latest statistics published by VIDA have re-sparked debates in the blogosphere on the under-representation of women in literar…

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year was an international jamboree for all things mobile – a industry much more…

As well as working in the arts, I am a scriptwriter, so it might surprise you to find out that I didn’t enjoy a live play, p…

Arts & Business has been conducting the annual Private Investment in Culture Survey (PICS) in one form or other for more than…