Naturally thinking digital
Amy Rushby explains how digital technologies have allowed the RSC to extend its reach and provided more opportunities for it…
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Bottom of the food chain
Bev Adams accuses funding assessors of ‘project snobbery’ and favouring venue-based organisations over artists working…
Research backs up the value of music-making to young people
A round-up of “compelling evidence” for the benefits of music education has been published with the aim of providing t…
Realising the potential of digital technology
Digital skills, processes and activities have helped most arts organisations reach new audiences and generate alternative revenue…
Lessons from the past
Deborah Bull explains what the cultural enquiry into arts policy and young people learnt by looking back over the last 60 years.
Education portal for London takes shape
New research reveals the challenges that need to be overcome to improve communications between schools and cultural organisations.
Arts Council England invests in evidence of arts impact
Over the next three years £2.5m will be invested in projects led by arts and cultural organisations working with research pa…
The superpower of storytelling
The tragic story of Lidice, a Czech village destroyed by the Nazis, formed part of a recent Cultural Value project investigating t…
My Gurus
Now she has left a-n, Susan Jones reflects on those who have helped her over the course of her career.
Being watched
Dirk vom Lehn explains how video-based research into social interactions in museum or gallery exhibitions can be used to develop n…
Universities celebrate arts research success
An assessment of the research output and impact of the UK’s Higher Education institutions has placed the University of Londo…
Workers pay the price of austerity
Interns, apprentices and volunteers are taking the place of permanent paid staff in the arts sector, which is also seeing a move a…
NAO reveals the impact of Council cuts
Cultural services have seen bigger cuts than social care but are not the worst affected, according to a National Audit Office repo…
Wales fears the impact of council cuts
It is becoming increasingly less likely that culture and arts services will be able to play a meaningful part in delivering the Go…
Fairer regional arts funding amounts to “glib London bashing”
Redistributing arts funding across England would bring “marginal if any long term benefits for people living outside the cap…
Regional funding imbalance “must be urgently rectified”
Greater fairness in Lottery funding would help to redress the wider geographic arts funding imbalance that sees London benefit &ld…
National attraction
A recent British Council report says that the arts and culture are vital in making a country attractive to foreign visitors. Sue H…
‘Hard facts to swallow’ on England’s arts funding
A new report concludes that smaller organisations are being squeezed out as their share of Arts Council England’s regular fu…
Work experience could be better for students
Research by Birkbeck, University of London, underpins new guidance on how the arts and creative industries can make the most of st…
Audience and participant trends diverge in Northern Ireland
Arts participation continues to grow in Northern Ireland, though attendance has fallen and engagement is declining among disabled…
Sponsorship revisited
Roberta Comunian argues that traditional views on the benefits of arts sponsorship to business have been far too limited, as demon…
Slow progress on widening diversity
Report finds that many arts organisations lack the expertise or resources needed to meet the requirements of the Equality Act 2010…
Music education is thriving among the better off
The cost of tuition is still a major barrier to children from lower socio-economic groups learning to play an instrument, report c…
Wellbeing analysis makes stronger case for the arts
A focus on wellbeing would lead funders to place a greater emphasis on participatory arts, says Parliamentary report.
