When hearts beat together: Measuring immersion in live theatre
Filmed theatre is still a relatively new medium – between film and live theatre. So how do we develop the visual language to…
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Project mapping UK’s arts research infrastructure launches
A project collating the diversity of arts and humanities research infrastructure in the UK is underway. The Mapping the Arts and H…
The price is wrong
With ticket price differentiation reaching new extremes, David Reece considers the longer-term consequences and asks if we should…
Can ‘artistic citizenship’ be taught?
When asked if the performing arts should simply entertain or whether they have a higher social calling, Jonathan Vaughan is very c…
Birmingham 2022 Festival ‘delivered on inclusivity’, study finds
Evaluation report finds festival made inclusive practice integral to its programme, despite previous claims it had shut out creati…
Culture organisations ‘struggling to retain staff’
Galleries, theatres and museums struggling to attract and retain staff due to rising wage demands in face of cost-of-living crisis…
Why we need to use the F word in evaluation
Talking of failure can feel uncomfortable and we often avoid it when carrying out evaluation. But, as Susanne Burns argues, being…
Musicians’ census aims to ‘kickstart industry change’
Musicians urged to take part in first ever Musicians’ Census in order to map the total population of musicians and build a p…
Culture and councils in coalition
The relationship between a place’s local government and its creative economy is an entirely (and rightly) symbiotic one, arg…
At risk: our creative future
A blunt report from the Lords Communictions Committee warns government complacency risks undermining the UK’s creative indus…
Evaluating large-scale cultural events
With the evaluation findings from Birmingham 2022 published this week, and those from Coventry City of Culture forthcoming, Katy R…
Government complacency ‘jeopardising creative industries’
Inquiry into the future of UK's creative industries calls for government to place sector at the heart of its growth agenda and…
Increase in post-pandemic arts attendance ‘slows down’
Analysis of official DCMS data finds audiences are now returning to music at a quicker rate than theatre, while attendance across…
Art galleries express closure fears
Almost nine in 10 gallery leaders are concerned about their organisation’s future due to the cost-of-living crisis, accordin…
Digital impact in museums and galleries
How might museums be supported in developing a digital strategy? Mike Keating shares the findings of a new report to better unders…
UK museum artworks to be shared through new data service
A UK-wide Museum Data Service is to be established to pool records on millions of objects so they can be shared for research and p…
Research finds gender imbalance in theatre writing
There is a large discrepancy in the gender balance of composers, lyricists and playwrights credited for main stage theatre pr…
Exclusive: Academics hit out at Birkbeck creative cuts
Leading academics call for a rethink of plans to cut creative teaching posts at Birckbeck, University of London, which they say wi…
Culture for health?
A new EU report – Culture for Health – reviews cultural interventions in health and wellbeing and makes policy recomme…
Theatre sustainability initiative expands across the arts
Team behind efforts to improve sustainability in theatres expands initiative across the wider arts and culture sector.
Galleries most concerned by staffing issues and rising costs
The leading concerns for art galleries in the UK in the coming year are staffing issues and rising costs, a new survey has reveale…
A framework for failure
The cultural sector is not given to discussing failure – a common problem across much of public policy. But here Leila Janco…
Grassroots call for radical change
New research that identifies how the pandemic heightened artists’ precarity highlights radically different perspectives for…
DCMS pledges action on gender pay gap
DCMS has said it will take action to address gender pay gap after report finds the difference between the middle earning man and m…
