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STEVE MARMION has joined Watford Palace Theatre as Chief Executive and Director of Programming. Formerly the Co-Chief Executive and...
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JON MORGAN will leave his role as Director of Theatres Trust in December after nearly eight years. Prior to joining Theatres Trust, Morgan...
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Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre has announced SELINA CARTMELL as its Creative Director. She will take up the newly-created role in...
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Clore Leadership has announced SUZANN MCLEAN, JONATHAN REEKIE and KATE VARAH as new trustees. McLean is the Artistic Director of Theatre...
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The Cathedral Music Trust has appointed JONATHAN MAYES as Chief Executive Officer. He will take up the post in July. Alongside Mayes,...

Latest Features

  • 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.

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    Today is World Intellectual Property Day (26 April), and it’s time the UK caught up with paying its artists fairly, writes Adele Morse

  • 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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    Voters across England go to the polls next week (2 May) to elect many thousands of new councillors and 10 metro mayors – one of them being the Mayor of London. Phoebe Gardiner outlines what mayoral hopefuls need to understand about the capital’s culture.

Readers' Comments

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...
Posted by Fondue Lover on A cultural revolution in the arts
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...
Posted by Frankafka on A cultural revolution in the arts
We have supported artists and their freedom to free expression since 2009. When we started people could understand why, why in London. We...
Posted by Agnieszka Kołek on A cultural revolution in the arts
Absolutely this. Hopefully more people will feel able to speak up now the Cass Report has been published. We are sick of being silenced.

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