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Gordon SEABRIGHT has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Horniman Museum and Gardens.  Currently Chief Executive of Creative Land...
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The Heritage Alliance has announced CAROLE SOUTER CBE as its new Chair, succeeding Acting Chair Dr INGRID SAMUEL OBE. Souter will take up...
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Mercury Theatre Colchester has appointed MARK HOULT-ALLEN, RODNEY APPLEYARD, MATT BRINDLEY, HELENA OXLEY, JULIA STEPHEN and PETER TORRES...
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Theatre503 has named five new trustees and an associate trustee who will be joining its board. New members include PIPPA HILL, Head of New...
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STEVE MARMION has joined Watford Palace Theatre as Chief Executive and Director of Programming. Formerly the Co-Chief Executive and...

Latest Features

  • Children get creative with clay

    In the first of our series looking at the role of philanthropy in arts funding, Caroline McCormick of the Cultural Philanthropy Foundation argues that the financial plight of our cultural institutions is undermining their huge impact.

  • ISM demonstration outside Department for Education

    The decimation of arts education has hit the music sector particularly hard. Deborah Annetts of the Independent Society of Musicians calls on government departments to work together to stop the decline.

  • Abstract painting

    As activity this year gathers pace, Michelle Wright explores the many quandaries arts organisations have to navigate in deciding where to focus their fundraising efforts.

  • Metroland studios

    Welcome to Metroland. We are in Brent, London’s fifth largest borough, an urban sprawl and home to 340,000 people. But, as Lois Stonock shares, the cultural infrastructure needs support.

  • Image of 'stoned fox'

    To mark World Intellectual Property Day, Adele Morse thinks it’s time the UK caught up with other countries in paying its artists fairly. 

  • Image of three faces with mouths taped closed

    Co-Founder of Freedom in the Arts, Rosie Kay, thinks the arts in the UK have strayed into a culture of intolerance, which has led to cancellation and a climate of self-censorship that has to be addressed. 

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Posted by nowordsfindswords on A cultural revolution in the arts
This is a good and balanced article..it is vital that artists are able to express themselves freely. Having lived and worked in communist...
Thank you for this thoughtful and heartfelt piece. The hyperbolic first comment- it’s hard to believe the author read the piece- shows the...
Posted by Rachel Bell on A cultural revolution in the arts
Important and timely piece. The arts and artists should be free to say what they like and say it wherever they can. If you're in...
Posted by Frankafka on A cultural revolution in the arts
At present the dogma that deconstruction and linear forms of activisms (many of which are dully, overtly misogynist and/or hypersexualised...
Posted by Vinaigrette_Girl on A cultural revolution in the arts
Thanks for all your work. The arts council is out of control with authoritarian pseudo intellectualism.
Rosie Kay is a dancer not a writer but, like her dancing, her writing comes from the heart and is grounded in her personal experiences....
Posted by Margaret E on A cultural revolution in the arts
Great article, thank you Rosie for having the strength to speak up. The Arts are indeed truly lost when a ‘minority’ has so much clout - on...
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A breath-takingly incoherent take from nowords here, but when you boil away the insults and the ranting the comment is best summed up in...
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