Pay dispute for award-winning company
OperaUpClose, which won an Olivier Award for its production of ‘La Boheme’, has come under fire for not paying its cho…
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Cultural apartheid risk
Twenty-six arts leaders have written to the Prime Minister requesting a meeting to discuss levels of arts investment planned for 2…
ACE funding announcement
Audience development loses out as ACE prioritises organisations directly producing art
RFOs which are not in the new Portfolio
N.B. Some RFOs did not apply, and some of those listed below may be part of consortia. This list may not be exhaustive, but is com…
Radiohead go Random
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,…
Two’s company
Claire Antrobus asks whether two heads are better than one, or whether joint leadership models are double trouble
Are you invisible?
There’s no point having a website if no-one knows it’s there. Heather Maitland shares some tips on getting noticed on the web
Countering “gallery rage” – an open letter in response to an article in The Guardian
Last weekend I read Vanessa Thorpe’s article about gallery rage and felt compelled to respond to the piece from the point of vie…
The axe is poised
This article is about the arts sector, but it’s also about arts venues, those supposed crisp and modern chapels of culture that sh…
Once in a lifetime
Helen Thomas suggests that the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad offers a huge opportunity for voluntary arts practitioners
Stories for all
Marge Ainsley advocates putting young people at the heart of the curatorial process
Honours systems used to pay tribute to philanthropists
Three arts philanthropists have been recognised in the New Year honours list
A False Economy
Anne Bonnar explains why subsidising every theatre ticket helps the better-off more than it helps those on low incomes
The sector speaks
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Louise de Winter, Mark Pemberton, Roy Clare, Marcia Hutchinson, Stephen Cottrell, Hannah Nicklin, Michael Boyd, Fra…
DCMS publishes its Business Plan
Reform for the DCMS’s arm’s length bodies, and support for a move towards more sustainable business models, are at the…
Culture committee interrogations continue
Witnesses at the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee inquiry into the funding of the arts and heritage (see AP228) are being…
The sector speaks
Comment on the Spending Review and ACE funding decisions
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Dance education funding lags behind music
The government’s inquiry into music education (AP225), launched by Education Secretary Michael Gove last month, has se…
Curtain rises on new theatres
More than £120m later, three English theatre companies are ready to move into their new homes. The Royal Shakespeare Company…
Alive and kicking
Why should arts funders invest in experimentation? Hasan Bakhshi presents findings from NESTA’s new research
From Russia, with guts
Immersive opera might only just be catching on in Britain but, as David Staples reports, Opera Gulag has already gone some way to…
Mix and match
Looking at the year-on-year mammoth success – and variety of cultural choice – on offer in Edinburgh every August (p1)…
