Culture minister Ed Vaizey has announced the publication of The Culture White Paper, the first government white paper on culture in England for over 50 years.
NVA has received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Creative Scotland to save the iconic modernist building and bring it back to life as an arts centre and heritage destination.
Four artists have been shortlisted for UK’s first dedicated award for sculpture, with the winner receiving £30,000.
This weekend and throughout April and May, intimate operatic experiences will be taking place people’s homes – courtesy of Opera Helps, a project by artist Joshua Sofaer.
The Europarc Project has seen North East Lincolnshire-based artist Marc Renshaw researching the strangely detached world of the region’s ‘flagship’ business park. a-n Writer Development Programme participant James Steventon talks to him as an exhibition of his work goes on show at The Collection, Lincoln.
The Science Museum Group will go ahead with plans to move the Royal Photographic Society collection from the National Media Museum to the V&A, but says £7.5 million of investment and the transfer of a number of ‘significant objects’ to the Bradford-based museum over the next five years will help refocus it as the ‘city’s leading cultural attraction’.
Artist Sonia Boué has produced a new video calling on Arts Council England to consider the problems facing neurodivergent artists when applying for funding.
The Science Museum Group says it is to review recent feedback over plans to move a significant photography collection from the National Media Museum, Bradford, to the V&A in London, as the campaign site 38 Degrees puts out a further call for signatures to its petition to block the transfer.
Juneau Projects’ new song responds to the history of a former timber yard and the redevelopment of the riverside area with a constructed pilgrimage for the audience.
Speaking at a Glasgow Film Festival event on producing artists’ moving image in Scotland, Turner Prize nominee Luke Fowler has called for the creation of a cinema dedicated to artists’ work and experimental film.
25 artists including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Jeremy Deller and Grayson Perry donate work for auction to raise money for organisation working to improve access to culture for disabled people.
The Islington Mill Art Academy in Salford has been providing a free alternative to mainstream art education since 2007. Sara Jaspan speaks to its co-founder, Maurice Carlin, and gets the views of artists who’ve taken part in the Academy’s ever-evolving investigation of what art education can be.
Owners of pioneering Dadaist Kurt Schwitters’ last remaining Merzbau project call on Arts Council England and Tate to help rescue badly damaged site.
Arts Council England has awarded small capital grants to 39 organisations across the country, including to visual arts organisations Aspex, Spike Island, Pallant House Gallery and the Towner Trust.
Kate Murdoch wins the fourth annual Shape Open with her sculpture Bad Head Day, inspired by the muddle and confusion that being partially deaf can cause.
The National Society for Education in Art and Design’s Survey Report 2015-16 states that in the last five years government policies in England have impacted not only on the value of the subject, but on the time and resources needed for children and young people to participate and excel in art, craft and design.
The artist and professor in Fine Arts, Sonia Boyce, is leading a three-year AHRC-funded research project into British Black artists and modernism in the 20th century. She talks to Laura Robertson about why the work needs to be done and what she hopes to achieve.
A march in Cardiff on Saturday saw the city’s arts community come together to protest at proposed Cardiff Council cuts to the arts and culture budget.
Decision to move world famous collection from northern city to London receives widespread criticism, with online petition already gaining 11,000 signatures.
The newly opened £1.5 million wing of the Attenborough Arts Centre creates the largest contemporary art gallery in Leicester, with a current show by Lucy and Jorge Orta that reflects the art and science theme of the centre’s curatorial programme. Fisun Guner reports.
Are initiatives aimed at disabled artists just a way to make the arts sector feel good about itself, an exercise in discrimination when what is really needed is an even playing field? Cornwall-based artist Stacey Guthrie argues that what is really required is more inclusion and less segregation.
The government’s plans for the English Baccalaureate, or EBacc, remains an ominous presence for art departments across England, with many describing it as hugely detrimental to the teaching of creative subjects in schools. With a Department for Education consultation on its implementation looming, Lydia Ashman talks about its impact to campaigners and those on the frontline of art education.
Commemorations include eight new commissions installed at galleries across the UK plus two new touring exhibitions.
Inaugural London light festival features work by 20 international artists installed at some of the capital’s most iconic buildings and locations.
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