Ethnically diverse creative leaders are experiencing a rise in racist abuse. Amanda Parker calls for government support to kick it…

Arts venues might lose out by mandating masks and other Covid-19 mitigations but it's the only socially responsible optio…

The Jess de Wahls controversy has highlighted how tenuous arts organisations' solidarity with transgender people can…

Can using public money to make BAME* entrepreneurs successful be in the public interest if it makes them wealthy too? Kevin Osborn…

The more you look at the cultural aftermath of this year of lockdowns, the clearer it becomes that current thinking around arts fu…

Drama schools would do well to interrogate their practices and culture now before the calls for reform begin.

Kevin Osborne has long been exercised by systemic racial bias in UK arts funding. Last month he produced a panel discussion aimed…

 'We’ve only been here because you’ve been with us': as ArtsProfessional heads into its third decade, Liz…

With a Government report recommending the dropping of the term BAME, people have been challenging Kevin Osborne’s continued…

The distribution of Arts Council England’s Culture Recovery Fund has attracted widespread criticism, not least from those ca…

To describe the past year as unprecedented is an understatement. Just don’t make the mistake of thinking anything has really…

DCMS’ new model for measuring culture’s economic value shows no understanding of how public policy has developed in re…

As we say good riddance to 2020, Liz Hill takes a glass-half-full look at progress in the cultural sector this year, and what the…

Amanda Parker shares her parting words as Editor of ArtsProfessional.

"We have now had a glimpse of what direct government funding of the arts would look like – and it’s not a pretty…

UK Music has published its industry-wide ten-point plan for a diverse music ecosystem. But it’s actions, not words, that wil…

By cutting bursaries for teacher training, the Department for Education will make a career in teaching an unreachable dream for so…

An ongoing and unspoken sense of crisis has driven those working in the performing arts to accept an intolerable range of behaviou…

England’s arts organisations will be asked to make decisions that affect more than people’s livelihoods.

Venue operators should be rightly angry that the Government continues to insist that social distancing is the main route to making…

To future-proof the creative sector we must root out systemic funding bias against BAME organisations, says Kevin Osborne, startin…