Tuesday, 05 May 2015
Following the announcement that both Penelope Curtis and Chris Dercon are stepping down, JJ Charlesworth questions whether Tate is facing a crisis, and asks what place Tate Britain has in the UK’s cultural scene today.
Composer Christopher Fox examines the ways in which orchestras are keeping up with contemporary ideas of spectacle.
Friday, 01 May 2015
Kat Nugent asks women in technical roles in theatre about their experiences to date, and finds consistent challenges for those seeking to be successful production managers.
The arts sector needs “mechanisms to safely identify systemic failure, incompetence and wrongdoing,” in order to safeguard the industry, says Rebecca Atkinson Lord.
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Robert Gibson meets Neil Griffiths of Arts Emergency, a charity running a mentoring network that helps young people from diverse backgrounds – first in London, and now the North East – access careers in the arts.
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Lyn Gardner praises the courage of a £3m Unlimited initiative for disabled artists in programming bold work, explaining why disabled art “has to be good or it demeans the art form”.
Richard Jordan says that theatres must employ chief executives with a love for both commerce and theatre – something The National Theatre tried with Tessa Ross but didn’t quite pull off.
Monday, 27 April 2015
Margareta Pagano talks arts fundraising with the Serpentine’s Julia Peyton-Jones.
Friday, 24 April 2015
Two young theatre makers dissect the industry’s “class problem” and tell Matt Trueman what the arts sector should be doing about it.
Two hundred successful women from the arts gathered in Tate Modern to inspire schoolgirls and spearhead the next generation of artists, writers and directors.
With Monaco’s Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo set to come to the UK, Mark Monahan explains how the world’s second smallest country is able to house an internationally-renowned ballet troupe.
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
The new Artistic Director of The Old Vic, Matthew Warchus, shares his vision for the theatre with Anita Singh.
Commitments in the major parties’ manifestos to cultural access and diversity are pointless, unless they also address the devastating effects of local authority cuts, argues David Pountney.
Inviting an orchestra to take up residence in a troubled German school has led to its transformation. Matt Pickles investigates.
Monday, 20 April 2015
Artists in Iraq are becoming more isolated as government funding dries up and an increasingly conservative society and middle-class emigration leads to a shrinking market for art. Jane Arraf investigates.
Matt Trueman endorses the view that the theatre critic's job is to make way for the good by demolishing the bad.
Friday, 17 April 2015
David Burgess examines Battersea Arts Centre’s Phoenix fundraising campaign and explains what has and hasn’t worked.
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
The Whitworth recently reopened following a £15m redevelopment. Nicola Walker explains how it seized the opportunity to become more environmentally sustainable.
Monday, 13 April 2015
If we are to avoid dance becoming the privilege of a moneyed elite, then funding for education needs to be increased, at least to the levels of music education. But we can’t rely on the Government to plug this gap, says Ian Taylor.
In our increasingly technologically driven world creativity is as vital as ever, explains Vikas Pota. So we should be concerned about a school curriculum that over emphasises STEM subjects and standardised testing.