Science Museum ends BP sponsorship
The Science Museum has ended its controversial 25-year partnership with BP after its relationship had “drawn to a close” at the end of August.
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
Bono at the Astoria 7 February 2001, The Independent, by Andy Paradise
TAITMAIL. Theatres losing trust
It could hardly have been a more appropriate way for the Theatres Trust, the national advisory body for theatres involved in the planning process, to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Thanks to its intervention with its unique expert advice, the Prince of Wales Theatre in Cannock Chase will not, as expected, be closed but will instead be refurbished and reopened by the council’s new Reform-led administration.
Export stop on £71m Rembrandt
In one of her first official acts since being appointed arts minster Ruth Mackenzie has put an export bar on a Remrandt painting valued at £71m, the most expensive object ever to have been accorded national treasure status.
Theatres Trust downgraded
The Theatres Trust, set up 50 years ago to be the planning advisor on theatre elements of development proposals, has lost its statutory status on England.
NHM to reopen ‘lost’ gallery after 80 years
A gallery of the Natural History Museum that has been closed to the public for more than 80 years is to reopen next month.
Beaulieu motor museum to move after 50 years
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
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
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 Princess of Wales in Camelford, Devon, May 12, 1993, Daily Mail, by Richard Lappas
Ruth Mackenzie joins expanded DCMS
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
Dorothy Sebastian, Joan Crawford and Anita Page, Hollywood, September 29th, 1928, probably Ruth Harriet Louise
Name your lottery good cause
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 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
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
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”.
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