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Strategic developments

As part of implementing the restructuring of Arts Council England’s national office, Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford has been appointed as Executive Director, Arts Strategy.

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New studios

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.

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Mima
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Mima opens

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima) has opend its doors to the public after a major lottery-supported refit.

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Dartington College under threat

The closure of renowned Dartington College of Art, Devon is threatened due to rising costs that estate owners Dartington Trust are unwilling to meet.

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Cat Monkey
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Bursaries awarded

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.

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Self-Portrait as Switch
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International residency

Financial difficulties for Bergen’s United Sardine Factory (USF) led to its conversion to a 12,000 square meter arts centre in the 1980s.

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The Final Whistle - Botafogo 4 - Pontepreta 2
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Football art prize

Ben Kelly from Macclesfield won One Love: The Football Art Prize with his work The Final Whistle – Botofogo 4 – Pontepreta 2.

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Disability equality duty

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 […]

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CCS on the road

Creative & Cultural Skills is hosting events around the UK in February and March.

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Art Wall
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Art wall

Installed last autumn, Mamily Sheibani’s Art Wall extends the external face of a Park Lane Early Learning Centre.

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Image from Stories of Steps
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Steps stories

The personal stories of members of the community living near Liverpool’s Herculaneum Steps were highlighted and documented during 2006 through the energies of artist Janette Porter and the Living at the Edge project.

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Matt’s appeal

London-based Matt’s Gallery is making an appeal to raise £40,000 towards continuation of its programme of exhibitions, publications and education.

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New ACE launched

It is great that a-n is asking artists and organisations what they think of the recent structural changes at Arts Council England.

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Artists' Rights (The Twilight Years 2006)
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Corporate theft

As a photographer, I am alarmed at the increasing frequency of organisations holding ‘competitions’.

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Artist’s fees

I’ve been asked to coordinate a public event that will rely on artists’ coming forward to develop their own projects.

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Blog Post

Untitled blog post from "Big Antarctic project"

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 […]

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Blog Post

Untitled blog post from "Diary of an artist writer online"

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 […]

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Untitled blog post from "Diary of an artist writer online"

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 […]

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A new landscape for the arts

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.

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