Wednesday, 08 July 2020
The most radical element of America's New Deal was that the artist, no less than the manual worker, was entitled to employment at the public expense. Sydney Thornbury urges the Prime Minister to follow suit.
Tuesday, 07 July 2020
The announcement of a £1.57m bailout for the cultural sector can only be good news, but to use it to maintain its inequalities and dangerously narrow view of culture would be mistake. Oli Mould raises some concerns.
When news of redundancies at Theatre Royal Plymouth hit, Laura Horton channelled her own anguish into gathering stories about what the theatre meant to artists and audiences.
Monday, 06 July 2020
As homeless people have moved from the streets to hotels, arts projects have been engaging with new participants who had not engaged with them before. Matt Peacock highlights some lessons we can learn from the Covid crisis.
Hope for the arts in the United States is in the hands of private money, with its philanthropic environment promoted by tax breaks. Does the UK's hybrid model of arts funding offer a brighter future? Leslie Ramos considers the evidence.
Artists more than most have reason to look to Roosevelt’s New Deal as a template for survival and revival. Annabel Turpin and Gavin Barlow explain why.
Monday, 29 June 2020
Yasmin Sidhwa has seen the theatre sector show its true colours: the funding, the power and the lack of transparency that mean those with ethnically diverse background can't get in.
Theatre is refusing to be dimmed in Wales. Nick Davies looks behind the headlines to see what's going on in the sector - and what could soon be lost.
"The museum we closed will not be the same as the one we will open". Madeleine Grynsztejn sees four fundamental shifts in how museums meet and lead the challenges ahead.
Joe Hallgarten offers five ideas that could help those passionate about cultural education to plan their next moves.
Friday, 26 June 2020
Stripped back opera performances and the propsect of music being delivered through a bluetoothed loudspeaker in a car park doesn't hold any appeal for Robert Sanderson, who suspects other opera lovers may feel the same.
Thursday, 25 June 2020
Adrian Vinken tells Daily Mail readers what they're going to lose if there is no tangible, practical Government support for the theatre sector.
Monday, 22 June 2020
Unless we think big, act collectively, and use the different stages of recovery to make the case for theatre, Peter Arnott isn't sure we'll be able to persuade governments or businesses to back the sector at all.
Sunday, 21 June 2020
Kate Rolfe and Marco Savo offer some digital inspiration for creative practitioners wanting to share their content and tell their stories in an agile and adaptive way.
"Every time we get a new tool, we start by forcing it to fit the old way of working, and then one day we realise that it lets us do the work differently." Benedict Evans examines the challenges of running online events.
Few seated theatres will be compatible with commercially viable socially distanced performances - but immersive theatre and drive-ins may have some answers, says Lanre Bakare
At their best, institutions provide a welcoming, well-resourced envelope in which artists can create their work and audiences can be engaged. But if artists are always expected to live gig to gig with little voice in the system, what does that say about what we value as a field, asks Carey Perloff.
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Making locals pay has proved to be a dubious – and perhaps damaging - option for museums, says Gina Fairley, so what are the alternatives?
Sunday, 14 June 2020
Black artists in Country Music have felt too vulnerable to speak out about the racism they have been facing - until now. Andrea Williams opens the floodgates.
To make most of the 'unfrozen moment' we are living through, we will need to attend to the conditions that make real change possible, says Holly Donagh.