Creative Scotland consultation
In December, the Scottish Executive published the draft Culture (Scotland) Bill.
In December, the Scottish Executive published the draft Culture (Scotland) Bill.
As part of implementing the restructuring of Arts Council Englands national office, Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford has been appointed as Executive Director, Arts Strategy.
In response to the lack of affordable wet & dirty spaces in the area, artist Jackie Berridge has purchased the ground and first floor of a Victorian lace mill in Long Eaton, Nottingham, for conversion into studios.
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima) has opend its doors to the public after a major lottery-supported refit.
The closure of renowned Dartington College of Art, Devon is threatened due to rising costs that estate owners Dartington Trust are unwilling to meet.
In December, Scottish Arts Council awarded major bursaries to four leading contemporary artists for the development of future work, and as an investment in their creative talent.
Financial difficulties for Bergen’s United Sardine Factory (USF) led to its conversion to a 12,000 square meter arts centre in the 1980s.
Ben Kelly from Macclesfield won One Love: The Football Art Prize with his work The Final Whistle Botofogo 4 Pontepreta 2.
In December 2006, the UK government passed the Disability Discrimination Act. This requires all public bodies, including local authorities, educational institutions and others, to take proactive and mature approaches to meeting the social needs of disabled people, moving beyond a […]
Creative & Cultural Skills is hosting events around the UK in February and March.
Installed last autumn, Mamily Sheibanis Art Wall extends the external face of a Park Lane Early Learning Centre.
The personal stories of members of the community living near Liverpools Herculaneum Steps were highlighted and documented during 2006 through the energies of artist Janette Porter and the Living at the Edge project.
News on PACE, Showhow and Prickings mentorship.
London-based Matts Gallery is making an appeal to raise £40,000 towards continuation of its programme of exhibitions, publications and education.
It is great that a-n is asking artists and organisations what they think of the recent structural changes at Arts Council England.
As a photographer, I am alarmed at the increasing frequency of organisations holding competitions.
I’ve been asked to coordinate a public event that will rely on artists coming forward to develop their own projects.
I'm posting this a bit early because I'm off to live in a melon hut at the Sky-blue station for a week……..I'll explain it all when I get back…….. Ok, in answer to everyone's question 'have you made any work […]
http://www.artsjournal.com/man/ The Walker Arts Centre blog asked Tyler Green to nominate his Top Ten art shows in 20006.Interesting but, you've guessed, all American.
Death on camera www.guardian.co.uk Today's leader in The Guardian "Death on camera" articulates the feelings I have not been able to find words for after seeing Saddam Hussein hanged on YouTube. "It is curious, but till that moment I had […]
Eagle chick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTCfmwRA4A )Just found another comment about my video on the 8 week old European chick owl. Uploaded 4 months ago it has had 1,412 hits. It never ceases to amaze me about the kind of stuff that folk […]
Analyses issues of crisis management in arts organisations and discusses alternative approaches to income generation.
The Conservative Party’s “Arts Task Force”’ submission to The Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Produced in 2007, the Task Force was Chaired by Sir John Tusa.
Asserts that current provision of entrepreneurship education for creative graduates is not adequately preparing graduates to run their own businesses.
Demos document that argues that, more than ever before, culture has a vital role to play in international relations.