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By Patrick Kelly
The Edinburgh Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival, and that’s its problem.
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Feelings are running high over what rights museums in the UK have to house certain objects, from a three-legged stool in Oxford that is claimed as a national treasure by Uganda to symbols of religious rites for native Canadians and New Zealanders to the Parthenon Sculptures.
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Alan Sparrow on another legend of photojournalism, Victor Console
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The CEO of Leeds’s Thackray Museum of Medicine, Nat Edwards, is to be the new Master of the Armouries and director general of the Royal Armouries.
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Sir Ian McKellen is offering up to £25,000 to producers to stage new plays and revivals, funded by his successful 80thbirthday tour.
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The new Royal College of Art in Battersea with its infinite spaces and possibilities opened to the public for the first time with its graduate show last month, showing some of the stunning fruits of the minds of young artists who have the latest digital technology at their fingertips, allowing them to fuse moving images, performance and installation in ways inconceivable a generation ago.
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Selladoor, the regional theatre producer behind the national and international tours of The Jersey Boys, 9 to 5 The Musical and Footloose, has a new executive director in Andrew Shepherd.
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Geraldine Collinge, director of public programmes at the RSC for 12 years, is to be the new chief executive at Compton Verney.
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The Royal Academy of Dance’s chairman is to switch allegiances to become chair of Northern Ballet.
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South London’s Horniman Museum, once a traditional Victorian museum but recast by its director to better reflect its diverse surrounding community, has won this year’s £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year award.
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Brett Rogers is to step down as director of the Photographers’ Gallery at the end of the year after 16 years.
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Truro’s Royal Cornwall Museum faces closure after more than 200 years after Cornwall Council suddenly refused a bid for continued annual revenue funding.
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Argentina-born Gabriela Salgado is the new director of the Showroom, the London gallery that specialises on experimental collaborations.
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Heidi Vaughan is to succeed Mike Tweddle as artistic director of Bristol’s Tobacco Factory Theatres.
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Gerard Lemos, chair of the prison and probation service, is to be the new chairman of English Heritage, to succeed Sir Tim Laurence in January.
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Wimbledon hopeful crashes out, 25th June 1993, by David Ashdown for The Independent
By Alan Sparrow
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Diane Lees is to stand down as director general of the Imperial War Museums next year, she announced today.
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The National Gallery is to mark its bicentenary - by going national in a £95m celebration of its foundation in 1824, which includes a major refurbishment.
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The national seven-day arts festival celebrating contributions made to this country by refugees is launched today.
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The co-executive directors of the British Chambers of Commerce are to continue their job sharing as join-CEOs of the Society of London Theatre and Theatre UK.
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Art Fund is making £2m available to museums in new funding schemes this summer.
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A new art prize is to feature in this autumn’s StART London Art Fair, the exhibition devoted to emerging talent at the Saatchi Gallery. The prize is sponsored by Martin Miller’s Gin and here the brand’s global head of marketing, Robert Eastham, explains how the partnership came together
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At Museums Connections 2022 The Revels Office consultancy led an exploration of how museums can combine innovation, experience and retail strategy to create new commercial programmes. The Revel Office’s project co-ordinator, Jeani Tamakloe, sifts the inputs