Jonothan Neelands puts the case for a needs-based public culture, akin to Public Health or Public Education, to tackle inequality.

Has your organisation really got a chance of success? If not, think some more and save yourself the headache, says David Micklem.

When and why did the art world decide that everyone’s creativity should be celebrated and supported? What change does it pro…

There are better ways for the arts sector and its funders to tackle the climate crisis than slipshod data collection.

A new strand of political correctness is reshaping conversations on race: the idea of ‘lived experience’ driving the d…

A reluctance to share opinions openly is a significant block to achieving racial equity. But as Kevin Osborne argues, without unde…

Nadine Dorries is a gift horse the cultural sector shouldn't look in the mouth.

Universities in the capital are set to lose nearly £80m in funding for arts courses. Diana Beech fears this will further wid…

While the appointment of Nadine Dorries to lead DCMS has been greeted with widespread dismay by the cultural sector, Robert Hewiso…

In trying to diversify its company, English Touring Opera shot itself – and 14 freelancers – in the foot.

The fight for racially equitable funding in the creative industries is what drove Kevin Osborne to set up Create Equity. Here…

The UK City of Culture is a DCMS success story by any standards. But, as Andrew Dixon explains, serious flaws in this year’s…

Covid, the murder of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement all led to an outpouring of statements committin…

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…