MY STORY Helping artists to value themselves
Jerwood Arts’ new director, Lilli Geissendorfer, has introduced three new funds to the charity’s operations, and for one is announcing bursary beneficiaries whose careers could be shaped by them
Heritage high streets get £62m boost
High street buildings are to be turned into creative spaces thanks to a new £62m government fund, the Department of Digital Culture Media and Sport has announced.
Hogarth, the noisy painter
A new exhibition at the Foundling Museum takes a single painting of 18th century life as its subject
First affordable CEZ artists’ studios open
Eighty-five affordable artists’ studios have opened in Deptford, South London, as part of the Mayor of London’s Creative Enterprise Zone scheme.
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE Dancing into the big top
Clare Limb, head of dance development & learning for Déda, the Derby-based dance and outdoor performance development agency, on bringing dance and contemporary circus together in learning and participation
TAITMAIL 2022, a year of two Roses
It was a coincidence of fate. At the moment the survival of the oldest Elizabethan theatre against the odds and its bright future were being celebrated, the probable closure of the modern one modelled on it was announced.
Lottery support for Northern arts organisations
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is backing a new scheme, to be run by Creative United, help cultural organisations in the North with business advice.
Fears over Brexit fuel art exports to EU
The value of art, collectors' pieces and antiques exported from the UK rose to a three year high of £5.4bn in 2018, up from £5.1bn in 2017.
AI PROFILE Cynthia Corbett and living with art
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery is in a former 1860s convent in a leafy corner of Wimbledon, not the kind of venue you would expect to be a nurturing place for artistic talent.
Peter Hall’s theatre facing closure
Kingston Council’s withdrawal of funding may see the closure of the Rose Theatre, created by Sir Peter Hall and opened in 2008.
The Rose 30 years on: how it was saved
It was on a barmy early summer Sunday afternoon in 1989, exactly 30 years ago, when the Rose Theatre was saved. Simon Tait was there
Export block on judge’s Chatterley copy
The government has put a temporary block on the copy of D H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by the judge at the novel’s obscenity trial in 1960 – perhaps the most famous Old Bailey trial of the 20th century - complete with his wife’s annotations.
Cabaret’s automata delight returns to London
The automota show Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, for 15 years a feature of Covent Garden, has a new show in London with the artist Paul Spooner – thanks to the inspiration it gave a teenage visitor
Armitage the new Poet Laureate
Simon Armitage has been appointed the new Poet Laureate, following an unexpectedly troubled search for Dame Carol Ann Duffy’s successor.
THE WORD Where are non-western artists in contemporary galleries?
Faiza Butt is a Pakistani artist whose work is held in private and public collections including the British Museum and the Kiran Nadar Museum, Delhi
Wales consider arts for core subject
Arts subjects could become a core class for Welsh school children if a proposed new curriculum is put in place.
Bristol's Bricks aim to reclaim police station for the arts
Bristol's arts charity Bricks are hoping to create a new arts hub in one of the city's old police station.
Arts Council Northern Ireland pays executive £12k in discrimination case
Arts Council Northern Ireland has paid £12,000 to its chief executive Roisin McDonough after settling an age discrimination case.
The David Parr House: Cambridge's Arts & Crafts home opens to the public
The David Parr House, the Cambridge home of William Morris' Arts & Crafts collaborator, is to open to the public.
Saatchi Gallery covers artworks after complaints from Muslim visitors
The Saatchi Gallery in West London has taken the decision to cover up works by artists SKU that feature an Islamic declaration of faith, following complaints from Muslim visitors that they are blasphemous.
Anthony Caro: Seven Decades @ Annely Juda Fine Art - REVIEW
In our new review feature Adam Anderson considers the unending story of Britain's game-changing sculptor, Anthony Caro.
Poet Laureate – the job no-one wants
The search for a successor to Dame Carol Ann Duffy as Poet Laureate appears to have hit the buffers, with reports that the latest favourite, the Pakistan-born poet Imtiaz Dharker, has today ruled herself out.
TAITMAIL De Waal: viciousness of library cuts not just about books
The bibliophile, award-winning author and artist Edmund De Waal has made a Library of Exile, as AI reported this week, as an installation for the Venice Biennale. But what we are doing to our own libraries he says is simply vicious.
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