Thatcher’s impact on the arts world

The Guardian, the BBC and the Telegraph offer contrasting views of the Iron Lady’s arts legacy.

Good reads

Navigating the heritage sector

The heritage industry needs all the resilience it can muster, reasons Simon Tait as he looks at the legacy of the business support programme, Heritage Compass.

How cash-strapped councils can support the arts

Council support for the arts isn't only a case of cash, says Tom Plater. Here are his recommendations for measures local authorities can take to help the sector during difficult financial times.

Who would a smartphone levy benefit?

Mary Harrington considers whether artist payments funded by a proposed smartphone levy would reach those most in need or if, as with music streaming services, higher-profile creators would be the main beneficiaries.

Opinion

Developing AI policy for trustees and CEOs

19 Sep 2024 Opinion

Do your governance and leadership teams have a strategy for the use of AI? Or are your teams just experimenting without direction? Cath Hume thinks now’s the time to develop robust policy.
Governance

Management

Artificial Intelligence
From Olympians to musicians: What sport can teach the arts

18 Sep 2024 Opinion

Why are athletes praised for being elite, while the same epithet applied to musicians carries a connotation of being exclusionary? asks Michelle Robinson.
Research

Music
Dynamic disaster? Lessons from the Oasis ticketing row

12 Sep 2024 Opinion

With headlines raging around Ticketmaster and Oasis, will there be fallout for arts organisations that price dynamically? Robin Cantrill-Fenwick thinks it’s time to get ahead of a growing conversation.
Ticketing
Unrest, rest and action

11 Sep 2024 Opinion

Part of the point of art is the lens it offers us to look at the world in a different way, to converse with people and perspectives that are not our own, to learn, to disagree and to share, writes Clare Reddington.
Human resources

Diversity

Equality

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