Tuesday, 22 October 2019
With large buildings, curators and publishing arms, commercial art galleries are increasingly matching museums in their scale and ambition, reports James Tarmy.
We shouldn’t stand for Amazon’s attempt to gild itself with credibility by starting a music festival, writes Ben Beaumont-Thomas.
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Arts organisations need to decide what moral hierarchies guide their operations - sponsorship included, says James Doeser.
Pathways into the creative industries are less clearly defined than those in other sectors. From networking and skills development to finding your tribe and staying true to your art, Kate Hall offers practical advice for those just starting out.
Monday, 14 October 2019
Hettie Judah looks at the history of London's art nightclubs - platforms for new types of artistic expression that were the very definition of participatory theatre.
Friday, 11 October 2019
While New Jersey claims to offer 'universal arts education', more than 100,000 students aren't in arts instruction programmes. Barry Hessenius considers what we can learn from the state's successes and failures.
Watch: a 100-year-old ballet teacher has received an award from the Royal Academy of Dance for a performance in 1942.
Thursday, 10 October 2019
Former US President George W. Bush's portraits have become well known for their bold colours and august subjects - but do they deserve an exhibition at one of the country's most prestigious venues? Philip Kennicott argues it is an abdication of responsibility.
Wednesday, 09 October 2019
It's estimated that 80% of visitors to the Louvre come for the Mona Lisa alone. After queue chaos caused the museum to restrict access to the famous artwork for days, Henry Samuel asks whether a new system will suffice.
Tuesday, 08 October 2019
Jo Tovey isn't reading less, but she is reading less literature. She looks at how the "attention blackhole" of online life is affecting our reading habits and how to beat it.
Monday, 07 October 2019
Staff threatened to resign from a South African gallery if confronting drawings that interrogate "white male ideas" were not removed from an African art fair, writes Anny Shaw. Does the artist's goal of portraying "extreme polarisation" justify the offense he has caused?
Friday, 04 October 2019
Margate has become a "different, edgy, sexy" town since the Turner Contemporary opened. Thousands of people now visit every day - but is the area any better for aritsts? Tanya Gupta looks deeper.
Thursday, 03 October 2019
The publicly funded cultural sector can no longer be complacent about the communities it is intended to serve, writes Kenn Taylor. He looks at why - and how - we perform community engagement.
Wednesday, 02 October 2019
Kara Walker's new installation at the Tate Modern is "a sardonic counterprogram to the celebration of empire", writes Siddhartha Mitter. It presents a memorial to a history that has not yet passed.
Tuesday, 01 October 2019
Education Minister Nick Gibb plans to develop a model music curriculum amid a nexus of policy that has already driven students away from creative subjects, writes Sarah Derbyshire. She asks: where to from here?
Monday, 30 September 2019
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is fervently opposing employees' efforts to unionise, claims Nathan J. Robinson. The company's position puts left-leaning creatives in a difficult ethical position.
Friday, 27 September 2019
With the New York Met dropping Placido Domingo over claims he sexually harassed female performers, the question arises whether other venues should follow suit. Here Martin Kettle argues for Covent Garden to abandon bookings with the opera star, regardless of the glamour, artistry and ticket sales he attracts.
Thursday, 26 September 2019
A public live art installation in Deptford addressed the elderly participants' feeling that they were being "slowly airbrushed out of civic life", writes David Slater. The work placed art and creativity at the heart of societal considerations about care, attentiveness, responsiveness and responsibility.
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
The function of a critic is changing, but the art world is not. Jane Morris surveys the landscape of art criticism and asks whether it is facing an identity crisis.
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
The founder of creative crowdfunding platform Patreon was driven to establish the company by the "demoralising" discrepancy between feeling like a success and being paid like one. Jonah Weiner considers whether Patreon can provide a realiable business model for creatives in the internet age.