Last Friday saw me speaking at ‘A Space for Learning’, Irish Architecture Foundation’s first symposium on archit…

With February upon us, it may sound stupidly self-evident to say that the holiday season is over. But being American, I can justif…

Rosalind Riley (AP231) makes many telling points when arguing that the arts should be state funded. Unfortunately, all her argumen…

I read with interest the articles in your last issue (AP232) about arts funding. As the Chairman of a large UK public company, wit…

Laura Brown’s article Do arts organisations REALLY need business to tell them how to do their job? struck me as simple polem…

Continuing my series on emerging women, this post focuses on Amy Nettleton, a conceptual artist working in installation and sculpt…

When I decided to leave my job last year and go “freelance”, I wasn’t really certain of what I was letting mysel…

The beginning of a new year for me as a freelancer has always been met with a certain amount of trepidation. Looking down the long…

I’m guessing that some of you might have had an iPhone or android phone for Christmas. And you might have made some New Year…

We will never have it so bad. The only thing that’s going to save us now is business. Business is the only saviour the arts…

Having recently joined a contemporary Art Gallery in Surrey on a traineeship, the first couple of exhibitions I have assisted on h…

It seems abundantly clear to me that small arts organisations are facing a real battle at the moment, by which I mean organisation…

I herald from a small town in the West Midlands known as Shrewsbury; the folk of Shrewsbury have just one theatre and the repertoi…

Last weekend I read Vanessa Thorpe’s article about gallery rage and felt compelled to respond to the piece from the point of vie…

Published in 1831, the enormous popularity of Victor Hugo’s novel Notre Dame de Paris led to the restoration of the cathedra…

In my early days as a graduate, not living in a major city meant I relied on the internet to find out what interesting things were…

I’m pleased to present another interview with a hardworking and talented woman in the arts. Jane Boyer is a practicing artis…

And so I went to the Drum Theatre, to see the culmination of a mouth-watering project that the Theatre Royal Plymouth has been run…

This article is about the arts sector, but it’s also about arts venues, those supposed crisp and modern chapels of culture that sh…

EU funded projects should come with a health warning, says Matthew Taylor

This may well sound like a London-centric blog posting, but I think it affects all small, independently run music venues across th…

Judging from their new education white paper, the ConDems have discovered yet another front on which to continue their assault on…

I’ve recently taken a job as a theatre technician and sound engineer for a run of panto down in the west country. I was quickly re…

The holiday season can play strange tricks on one’s associative sensibilities. Examples abound: Pine trees + living rooms =…