TAITMAIL Arts centres: investing in the bottom line
There was a poignant throwaway line on Front Row’s edition devoted to Rethink last week when the panel was lamenting any meaningful suggestions from the government about how to avoid the black hole our cultural infrastructure is heading headlong for. “In the absence of large art” said the equality campaigner Amanda Parker “people found local”.
‘Get your own house in order’ Tom Watson tells arts
Former Labour deputy leader and ex-shadow culture secretary Tom Watson has warned the arts that the sector needs internal reform as well as government commitment to ensure its future post-Covid.
Lottery is back
Arts Council England is bringing back the National Lottery Project Grants from later this month, with easier access than before.
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Neville Chamberlain at Heston Aerodrome, 30th September 1938, by Fred Ramage, Keystone Picture Agency
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‘Put arts centres at heart of Covid recovery’
A network of 100 arts centres across the UK has put together proposals for local and regional arts centres to be at the heart of a culture revival after the Covid lockdown.
Museums and galleries set to reopen - with caution
Following the further relaxing of lockdown restrictions from July 4, England’s museums and galleries are preparing to reopen with strict distancing rules, timed visits and in some cases booking only, with the National Gallery the first of the major institutions to welcome visitors again on July 8.
Leading artists give to lockdown cancer auction
Forty-eight of the world’s leading artists, architects and designers have given works of art to be auctioned in aid of Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres.
Making a living
Founded in London in 2015, Mayku and its Formbox technology has been helping artists and craftspeople during lockdown realise their imagination and create at home, objects from plant pots to bath bombs with production growing at a rate of 100% a month through March and April. Here its co-founder and CEO Alex Smilansky explains how and what.
Perth set to make venues' staff redundant
Horsecross Arts, the charity that runs Perth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre for Perth and Kinross Council which have been closed since mid-March in the Covid lockdown, is preparing to make redundancies.
Rocca to be LPO’s artistic director
Cristina Rocca is to be the artistic director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the new management set up at the ensemble.
Theatre stars ‘heartbroken’ over threat to Plymouth theatre
Actors James Corden and Sue Perkins and the playwright James Graham have spoken of their alarm at news the Theatre Royal Plymouth may not be able to reopen after the Covid-19 shutdown.
Ironbridge first museum to reopen
The open air Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire is the first museum to announce its partial reopening following the relaxation of lockdown rules announced by Boris Johnson earlier today.
Johnson confirms, museums can reopen from July 4
The Prime Minister’s confirmation today of a new relaxation of the lockdown allowing museums, galleries and cinemas it reopen from July 4 has been welcomed by national museums directors, but with caution and a warning from the union Prospect.
Black opera stars join campaign with ‘Make Them Hear You’ anthem
Twenty-six black opera singers from around the world have been brought together digitally from around the world to create an anthem for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Hackney commissions Windrush sculptures
Two permanent sculptures, one of them nine feet tall, are to stand outside Hackney Town Hall to honour the Windrush generation, it was announced today, officially National Windrush Day.
‘Shed’ auction raises £18k for Florence Nightingale Museum
TV auctioneer Charles Hanson’s online auction from his garden shed on Friday raised more than £18,000 towards the survival fund of the Florence Nightingale Museum.
Glyndebourne reopens – with garden festival
The Glyndebourne opera festival is to open on July 1 – as an open air event of £10 tickets in a “newly imagined” summer season.
Amazon boss to head Natural History Museum
Doug Gurr, the head of Amazon in the UK, is to be the next director of the Natural History Museum, taking over later this year from Sir Michael Dixon who has been director since 2005.
Googling into the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy, currently closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, is opening as it never has before.
Shed auction to save Nightingale museum
Television auctioneer Charles Hanson is to hold an online sale to help save the Florence Nightingale Museum from closure – taking bids in his Derbyshire garden shed.
‘Cultural catastrophe’ forecast with 400k jobs and £74bn revenue lost
Urgent call for government sponsored Cultural Renewal Fund follows bombshell report
Art Fund’s £2m lever to reopen museums
Art Fund has today announced a £2m programme to help museums and galleries work towards reopening, including an innovative exhibition sharing scheme.
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