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NHM to reopen ‘lost’ gallery after 80 years

NHM to reopen ‘lost’ gallery after 80 years

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A gallery of the Natural History Museum that has been closed to the public for more than 80 years is to reopen next month.

TAITMAIL ACE’s challenge: To build better organisations - or better NPO applications?

TAITMAIL ACE’s challenge: To build better organisations - or better NPO applications?

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Occasionally we pass TaitMail over to other commentators on the arts and culture for their word on what’s happening in the sector. This time, as Arts Council England enters what might be a new era of National Portfolio investment, we invited Jordan Mullineaux, an arts consultant and theatre development professional with a background spanning producing, marketing, communications and fundraising.  He asks, should cultural organisations focus less on becoming eligible and more on becoming investable?

Beaulieu motor museum to move after 50 years

Beaulieu motor museum to move after 50 years

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The award-winning National Motor Museum, founded by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in the grounds of his stately New Forest home more than half a century ago, is to move, the museum has announced.

‘Terrified’ Norris takes on Beckett in stage return

‘Terrified’ Norris takes on Beckett in stage return

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Former National Theatre director Rufus Norris will return to the stage for the first time, directing an acclaimed soprano in her first acting role as part of a Beckett festival.

V&A deputy returns to head English Heritage

V&A deputy returns to head English Heritage

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Tim Reeve, currently deputy director and chief operating officer at the V&A, is to be the new CEO of English Heritage (EH), succeeding interim CEO Geoff Parkin.

The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month

The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month

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The Princess of Wales in Camelford, Devon, May 12, 1993, Daily Mail, by Richard Lappas

Ruth Mackenzie joins expanded DCMS

Ruth Mackenzie joins expanded DCMS

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Ruth Mackenzie, since last year director of arts at the British Council, has been appointed an arts minister under Lisa Nandy at DCMS with a seat in the House of Lords.

TAITMAIL Rates bombshell worth millions to museums

TAITMAIL Rates bombshell worth millions to museums

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This could be ground-shifting, it could cost the Treasury billions and put beleaguered museums’ accounts in the black for the first time in years. The word “floodgates” is being mentioned. And this is the first you’ve heard of it.

Lisa Nandy keeps - expanded`? - culture portfolio

Lisa Nandy keeps - expanded`? - culture portfolio

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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy is to keep the job in the Andy Burnham administration she was appointed to by Keir Starmer two years ago, in which she may be given an enhanced role.

Jessica Morgan to run Tate

Jessica Morgan to run Tate

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Jessica Morgan, director of New York-based Dia Art Foundation, is to be the next director of Tate, succeeding Maria Balshaw. She will take up the role on January 1.

NHM £12m rates ruling throws lifeline to museums

NHM £12m rates ruling throws lifeline to museums

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A landmark ruling by the Valuation Tribunal for England has slashed the Natural History Museum’s business rate from £12m a year to just £1 in what could be a ground-breaking decision.

NHM £12m rates ruling throws lifeline to museums

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A landmark ruling by the Valuation Tribunal for England has slashed the Natural History Museum’s business rate from £12m a year to just £1 in what could be a ground-breaking decision.

Shetland’s capital in race to be UK Town of Culture

Shetland’s capital in race to be UK Town of Culture

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The list of 15 small, medium and large towns competing to be the first UK Town of Culture n 2028 has been revealed.

TAITMAIL Museum of the Year – now make the cultural glue stick

TAITMAIL Museum of the Year – now make the cultural glue stick

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So it’s Plymouth’s The Box, winner of this year’s Art Fund Museum of the Year and the £120k that goes with it. And here’s the thing: it mostly won it for the change effect it’s had on the community.

Serota’s parting ACE message for next 80 years

Serota’s parting ACE message for next 80 years

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Nicholas Serota has drawn up five priorities for future public arts funding as he steps down after ten years as chairman of Arts Council England.

The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month

The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month

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Dorothy Sebastian, Joan Crawford and Anita Page, Hollywood, September 29th, 1928, probably Ruth Harriet Louise

Name your lottery good cause

Name your lottery good cause

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The government has asked the public to help shape National Lottery Good Causes funding by nominating their own good causes.

Plymouth’s ‘jewel’ Box wins £120k Museum of the Year prize

Plymouth’s ‘jewel’ Box wins £120k Museum of the Year prize

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Plymouth’s museum, art gallery and archive, The Box, has won this year’s Art Fund Museum of the Year award, at £120,000 the world’s largest museum prize.

TAITMAIL Breaking ACE’s Bloomsbury idyll

TAITMAIL Breaking ACE’s Bloomsbury idyll

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The appointment of Dawn Airey as the 17th chair of Arts Council England (formerly Arts Council of Great Britain) came as a surprise. It shouldn’t have.

Judi Dench gets her own theatre

Judi Dench gets her own theatre

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The  Shaftesbury Theatre, the largest independent theatre in the West End, is to be renamed the Judi Dench Theatre in honour of the actress’s “unparalleled contribution to British theatre and the performing arts”.

Birthday honours in the arts

Birthday honours in the arts

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David Hockney dies at 88

David Hockney dies at 88

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Britain’s best known and most influential contemporary artist, David Hockney, has died aged 88.

Beryl Cook exceeds targets for Plymouth’s Box

Beryl Cook exceeds targets for Plymouth’s Box

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Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy, which celebrated the centenary of the birth of the Plymouth-born artist, exceeded its visitor target by almost 30,000, The Box announced today.

Airey to chair ACE

Airey to chair ACE

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Dawn Airey, currently deputy chair of Channel 4, is to succeed Nicholas Serota as chair of Arts Council England (ACE), taking up the post on August 1 for an initial four-year term.

Slashed portrait of NPG founder back on show

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A portrait of Thomas Carlyle, one of the founders of the National Portrait Gallery, slashed by a Suffragette in 1914, went back on display today.

The painting, by John Everett Millais, has not been on show for more than 20 years, but is part of the exhibition Vote for Women that celebrates the centenary of women achieving the vote, part of the NPG’s year-long Rebel Women season.

The attack, using a butcher’s cleaver, was carried out by Anne Hunt following the re-arrest of Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. On the morning of July 17, while two female students were copying the picture, she struck the painting at least three times before she was restrained.

“This picture will be of added value and of great historical importance because it has been honoured by the attention of a Militant” Hunt said at her trial. She was sentenced to six months imprisonment but complained of being forcibly fed and was released a few days later on July 27.

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