Creative learning in Wales
Nick Capaldi explains the new partnership between the Welsh Government and the Arts Council of Wales which puts arts and creativit…
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An end to performance management?
Some publicly funded museums are moving away from performance management governance and towards a peer review model. Anwar Tlili e…
Cohesion or conflict
Frances Williams says it’s time to drop the false optimism surrounding arts projects in areas of social deprivation and…
Silos must end for the arts to thrive, report concludes
The final report of the Warwick Commission inquiry finds the future of cultural value as lying in a seamless relationship between…
Time for action on regional arts funding, report concludes
The need to correct the geographic imbalance in England’s arts funding has been proven and it’s time for Arts Council…
Naturally thinking digital
Amy Rushby explains how digital technologies have allowed the RSC to extend its reach and provided more opportunities for it…
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…
