Highly desirable or undesirable?
Dany Louise looks into the reasons why many cities welcome biennials of art events while others are less receptive.
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Report tells Labour “commit to the creative industries”
A Labour-commissioned report argues for devolution of funding and strategy decisions away from Whitehall and for ring-fenced grant…
Creative learning in Wales
Nick Capaldi explains the new partnership between the Welsh Government and the Arts Council of Wales which puts arts and creativit…
An end to performance management?
Some publicly funded museums are moving away from performance management governance and towards a peer review model. Anwar Tlili e…
Silos must end for the arts to thrive, report concludes
The final report of the Warwick Commission inquiry finds the future of cultural value as lying in a seamless relationship between…
Time for action on regional arts funding, report concludes
The need to correct the geographic imbalance in England’s arts funding has been proven and it’s time for Arts Council…
Lessons from the past
Deborah Bull explains what the cultural enquiry into arts policy and young people learnt by looking back over the last 60 years.
Enquiry sheds light on “engagement gap”
Failure to learn from the past means that new initiatives for engaging young people with the arts look “remarkably similar t…
Wales fears the impact of council cuts
It is becoming increasingly less likely that culture and arts services will be able to play a meaningful part in delivering the Go…
Regional funding imbalance “must be urgently rectified”
Greater fairness in Lottery funding would help to redress the wider geographic arts funding imbalance that sees London benefit &ld…
The dynamics of arts marketing
Hye-Kyung Lee traces the history of arts marketing though three different phases, each posing new challenges and requiring ar…
Wellbeing analysis makes stronger case for the arts
A focus on wellbeing would lead funders to place a greater emphasis on participatory arts, says Parliamentary report.
Damning report reveals impact of policy changes on arts education
Just a third of art and design teachers say their subjects are highly valued by senior management – fewer in state schools t…
NAO report demands greater funding transparency
Arts Council England is preparing to make its funding data more accessible as the National Audit Office reports on Government gran…
In the political eye
The Arts Alliance network and the Arts Forum are determined to keep the arts in criminal justice settings on the political agenda,…
Book review: ‘Reaching Out: Music education with ‘hard to reach’ children and young people’
The authors write “with passion and authority”, making this book relevant to a wider readership than the title suggest…
Lottery funding landscape laid bare
The distribution of Lottery funding for the arts is a closed system, operating for the benefit of a small number of arts organisat…
Joined-up thinking puts arts on the main agenda in Wales
The Welsh Government is preparing to harness the arts, culture and heritage in its battle against poverty and social exclusion.
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Sarah Stannage warns that many arts organisations may be missing out on European and Government funding available through Local En…
Call for evidence on the Future of Cultural Value
Answers from the cultural sector to seventeen questions on four specific themes will form the basis of an investigation by the War…
Commission to focus on Cultural Value
The Warwick Commission is aiming to develop new policy thinking and practical recommendations related to the long-term sustainabil…
Mainstreaming equality
How has Northern Ireland’s cultural sector responded to equality and community relations since the Good Friday Agreement? Ni…
A simple proposition
Peter Stark, Christopher Gordon and David Powell provide a personal reflection on reactions to Rebalancing Our Cultural Capital, t…
New figures reveal the true extent of the London/regions divide
An ongoing funding bias towards London is denying huge proportions of England’s population fair access to the arts, accordin…
