Haitink dies aged 92
Bernard Haitink, the former music director of the Royal Opera House, has died at his home in London. He was 92.
TAITMAIL Abstracting the Greenberg
In the unlikeliest of settings, the courtyard of a St James’s gentleman’s club, the most keenly argued issue of contemporary art of the last 70 years is being tackled full on: is abstract art really abstract?
Collins gets new No 2 role at Opera North
David Collins, Opera North’s director of external affairs since 2016, has been promoted to the new role of executive director, answering to the CEO Richard Mantle.
Sarah Hopwood to step down as Glyndebourne’s MD
After almost 25 years at Glyndebourne Sarah Hopwood is to retire next year as managing director.
‘Platinum’ festival gets a name and a shape for the future
The national arts festival for 2022, seen as a new version of the 1951 Festival of Britain and variously nicknamed Platinum, in recognition of next year being the 70th year of the Queen’s reign, and Brexit in accord with the Prime Minister’s alleged wishes, has an official name: UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK.
£150k award for civic arts
Invitations for applications were opened today for the second Award for Civic Arts Organisations, with £100,000 to the winner and £25,000 each to two runners up.
MY STORY Blood and wonder of the gipsy opera
Carlo Rizzi, artistic director, Opera Rara
Opera Rara, the company that rediscovers, restores, records and performs lost operatic masterpieces, is reviving Ruggero Leoncavallo’s second most popular opera (after Pagliacci), Zingari, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Cadogan Hall in December. It will be conducted by Carlo Rizzi, the former music director of Welsh National Opera and Opera Rara’s artistic director since 2019.
Oldest astronomy map on show for the first time
The 3,600 year old Nebra Sky Disc, the world’s oldest map of the stars, is to go on display in Britain for the first time next year.
Royal Docks to be London’s £5bn new cultural quarter
The mayors of London and Newham have declared the Royal Docks a new cultural quarter for the capital that could generate £5bn in investment over the next 20 years, as a new festival, Royal Docks Originals, opens.
Lost Tiepolo drawing turns up in Sitwells’ attic
An exquisite drawing by Tiepolo, one of the masters of Venice’s 18th century golden age, has been found in an attic, covered in bubble-wrap.
Anne Seymour Damer: the forgotten ‘female genius’
Horace Walpole described the sculptor Anne Seymour Damer as “a female genius”, yet her work is barely known now, almost 200 years after her death.
Rail boost for regional theatres
A railway company has teamed up with a group of regional theatres to boost their audiences following the Covid emergency.
Tiny Alnwick museum is UK's most friendly
The tiny Bailffgate Museum & Gallery in Alnwick, Northumberland, is the winner of this year’s Family Friendly Museum Award.
Cornwall and Durham longlisted for City of Culture 2025
The government has announced the eight cities and conurbations that will vie to be City of Culture 2025, in succession to Coventry this year.
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE Borough culture power versus Covid
In 2019 Waltham Forest was the first of mayor Sadiq Khan’s London Boroughs of Culture. Lorna Lee, assistant director of culture at Waltham Forest Council, shows how the structure built then helped its communities through the pandemic
Ex-director quits Science Museum board over sponsorship
Chris Rapley, the former director of the Science Museum, has resigned from its advisory board in the escalating row over its sponsorship by Shell.
£1m to give the world new British films
The UK Global Screen Fund is to give £1m to help 18 new productions to get international showings.
MIMA offers first curating apprenticeship degrees
In a ground-breaking move for careers in museums and galleries Middlesbrough’s MIMA School of Art and Design is offering the UK’s first combined masters and higher degree apprenticeship (HAD) in curating.
New £2m fund to help museums make ‘miracles on a shoestring’
Art Fund today announces the first round of a new £2m grant stream, Reimagine, to enable museums, galleries and historic houses to connect with their communities better.
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Into the Twilight Zone, 6.45pm, 25th September 2018, by Roger Jackson
Alan Sparrow with an image of St Paul’s and the City a sunset
Museum of Childhood’s £13m transformation – to Young V&A
Work has begun on the £13m transformation of the V&A’s Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, East London. It is due to reopen in 2023.
UK arts councils combine for international fund
The four nations’ arts councils have collaborated on a new fund to encourage international partnerships on arts projects.
Double sculpture makes Shard London’s international meeting point
A new public sculpture by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa that celebrates both internationalism and diversity has been unveiled at the point where the Shard, London’s tallest building, meets London Bridge Station.
Fund opens for ‘arts for social change’ projects
Two charities have combined to cdevise a fund that supports arts collaborations for social change.
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