Coventry City of Culture attracts more than a million
More than one million people attended events in Coventry during the city’s stint as UK City of Culture, according to analysi…
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Arts Council chief among Queen’s Birthday Honours recipients
More than 100 people working in the arts and culture sectors have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Event marketing firm announces acquisitions
Live entertainment marketing platform Activity Stream has acquired mobile ticketing specialists crowdEngage and event and venue ma…
Bradford wins UK City of Culture 2025
The West Yorkshire city becomes the competition's fourth winner, after a successful bid that championed diversity and young pe…
Arts Council pledges Grantium improvements
Testing of upgrades to the much-maligned Grantium application system are underway, with a launch date for an improved version…
Mayor of London teams up with Creative UK to support freelancers
The Mayor of London’s Culture Team and Creative UK are joining forces in an effort to tackle "systemic inequalities&quo…
Edinburgh Fringe producers get £1.3m resilience funding
Edinburgh Festival Fringe producers have received financial support to help them recover and remain resilient following the Covid-…
Home office, home crowd
Has working from home moved the goal posts for local arts attendance? Oliver Mantell has been considering the evidence.
What is market research?
There are many misconceptions about market research and who is or isn’t qualified to undertake it. Robin Cantrill-Fenwick un…
A radical re-think of R&D policy
How do art and artists contribute to innovation? Hasan Bakhshi and David Maggs argue that the typical ways of inquiring into the w…
Creative industries policy centre gets five-year funding boost
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has announced that it will continue to fund the Creative Industries Policy and Evi…
Plymouth College of Art gains university status
Plymouth College of Art has been approved for university status and changed its name to Arts University Plymouth. The institution,…
DCMS study moots major new data platform
Report recommends new cultural sector data platform to help make the case for increased funding across the arts.
Dorries: abolition of ACE ‘not on government agenda’
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tells MPs that while the system of distributing arts funding is "not perfect", there ar…
Performance studies threatened by proposed university cuts
Announcements of course closures and job losses at universities prompt concerns of 'existential threat' to theatre and per…
Government to end funding for Creative Careers
DCMS is to provide £947,000 for Creative Careers Programme to continue until March 2025, but does not intend to fund it beyo…
National Archives and ACE announce collaboration
A new three-year collaboration agreement between the National Archives and Arts Council England will see the two organisations wor…
‘Make it SO’
In the last in our series profiling the shortlisted candidates for City of Culture 2025, Claire Whitaker says Southampton has…
Who runs the arts in England?
New research confirms that elite institutions are still the dominant players in the interconnecting networks running the arts. Dav…
Comparing apples to oranges
Arts organisations increasingly use data to inform their decision making. But, argue David Johnson and Sarah Thelwall, if it&rsquo…
Evaluating cities and capitals of culture
With the winner of the UK City of Culture 2025 to be announced imminently, four academics outline their recommendations for t…
National Day of Arts in Care Homes set for September
This year’s National Day of Arts in Care Homes will take place on 24 September, The National Activity Providers Association…
Audit highlights UK’s ‘world-leading’ art and music research
Results from the assessment will determine the allocation of around £2bn in annual government funding.
Third of Capital Investment Programme goes to priority places
The programme, aimed at transforming digital and physical infrastructure, is penned as a way to put culture at the forefront of lo…
