Friday, 12 May 2017
Theatres in pubs are usually associated with fringe art, but they’re having a popular resurgence all around the country, says Matt Trueman.
Will Peabody Essex Museum’s decision to employ a neuroscientist actually improve the visitor experience? Malcolm Gay investigates.
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Greece’s financial difficulties have turned Athens into a place with lots of empty buildings and cheap studio space. Could the city grab hold of the arts and become the ‘new Berlin’, asks Alastair Sooke.
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Cultural engagement and reading for pleasure boost young people’s academic skills and wellbeing, according to an Arts Council of Ireland study. Jack Crager and Katie Ingersoll summarise.
Having been both applicant and selection panellist for the Unlimited fund, artist Richard Butchins issues one piece of advice.
Tuesday, 09 May 2017
There is a rocky road ahead for classical music, but by using digital to serve and enhance analogue, the next generation of listeners can be reached and have their lives enriched, argues Alan Davey.
The rejuvinated Turner Prize shortlist, which includes three women, more broadly reflects the different identities in the UK and sends the signal that the capital of culture is everywhere, says David Osbaldeston.
Monday, 08 May 2017
Nick Ahad tours Leeds Grand – the theatre plagued by fraud convictions, cancelled performances and structural issues – as it prepares to make its comeback.
Can visiting a museum feel too much like going to the dentist? Not if you use smartphone and virtual reality technology to excite and entertain visitors, says Nikki Erlick.
Thursday, 04 May 2017
To have gender parity in ballet, women must find time to create and continue to challenge the inequality that has for so long plagued choreography, writes Jorie Goins.
(IN BULGARIAN) Dnevnik profiles Buglaria’s new Culture Minister, Boil Banov, who trained as a theatre director and is renowned for uniting drama and puppetry at the Ivan Dimov Theater.
(IN CZECH) Given the Prague National Theatre’s ensemble currently features ten actresses under 40, Tomáš Šťástka asks: what space is there for older women?
Wednesday, 03 May 2017
Creativity is key to the jobs of the future, but cuts to arts education mean students aren’t developing the skills they need. What can we do about it? Jennifer Tuckett has a few ideas.
Friday, 28 April 2017
Both French presidential candidates – centrist Emmanuel Macron and the far-right Marine Le Pen – have culture sections in their policy proposals and values. Victoria Stapley-Brown dissects them.
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Three national museums – the National Gallery, the Natural History Museum and the National Railway Museum – have all tested or deployed tracking software, which could help curators and managers make better decisions. James O Malley reports.
A collaboration between IBM Brazil and a Brazilian gallery has resulted in an audio guide powered by artificial intelligence which allows visitors to ask paintings a question – and hear their responses, writes MuseumNext.
A US audience full of late twenty-somethings gasped, laughed, cheered, ooh’d and ahh’d through a classical music performance – of video game music. Might this ambience revive audiences for classical music? suggests Jeffrey Tucker.
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Robert Hewison and Nicholas Penny ponder whether curatorial experience is necessary, or even desirable, for a museum director in the modern age.
(IN FRENCH) TF1 reports on La Seine Musicale, the Paris concert hall which opened last week, tracing the site’s development from manufacturing heartland to ‘musical temple’.
Monday, 24 April 2017
The subjects in the BP portrait award shortlist may all be female, but this is no “all-female line-up”, says Marisa Bate. All three painters are men – and dressing up sexism in this way must not be deemed progress.