THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
The Prison of Technology, 26th December 2019, by Rafael Schmall
TAITMAIL Making a lifeline lead to something better
So did the culture department make praising the government a condition of getting money from the culture recovery fund? Well, yes… and no.
MY STORY What no-one is telling you – the truth about Covid’s impact
An exhausted Michelle Carwardine-Palmer, chief executive of Kneehigh Theatre, is leading the company through the pandemic crisis to the achievement of changes that were already needed before lockdown
Festival springs back in autumn
Belfast’s International Festival, now in its 58th year, is still the arts event that ‘never closes’ . Patrick Kelly looks at the latest programme
A new career for painter Philip Sutton - aged 92
The colourist painter Philip Sutton was 92 on October 20, and is using his experiences of eight months in lockdown to embark on the next phase of his career – as a gallerist.
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE Help at hand to make change happen
Professionals in the cultural and creative industries are having to rethink their working lives and acquire new skills, approaches and strengths to cope with the pandemic and its affects. To help them, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama is launching a series of free online workshops for practitioners, entitled Change Makers. Sian Brittain, the school’s head of Innovation, introduces it
THE WORD Moving Music
For more than 200 years the Royal Philharmonic Society has been creating opportunities for musicians - notably Beethoven from whom the society commissioned his 9th Symphony - and the annual RPS Awards have been a gauge of the excellence of our musicians. The shortlist for 2020 has just been announced, and here the RPS’s chief executive James Murphy discusses why they are more important now than ever
South London and the heart of art
The South London Gallery in Peckham is one of the five winners of this year’s Art Fund Museum of the Year Prize, sharing £200,000 with the Science Museum, Gairloch Museum, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum and Towner Eastbourne. Winning for the SLG is a personal triumph for the woman who has led it since 2001, Margot Heller
THE WORD We’ve never invested in people, and now it’s going to get worse
Arts workers have never had a good deal, and the prospects are even bleaker. Keith Jeffrey has started BreakThrough Coaching & Consulting to help leaders in the arts and their organisations navigate change for their workers post-Covid
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Evacuee children in Sussex on 17th March 1941, Daily Mail, by Frank Rust
Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image
Bradford, where culture shines out of an industrial past
MY STORY Shanaz Gulzar, artist and chair of Bradford’s City of Culture 2025 bid
TAITMAIL Time to target local arts funding
It’s always gratifying to get a proper think tank endorsing a one-man sort of inkwell tank (ink tank?) and this new report takes on a Taitmail bee - decentralising arts funding and dealing with local shortfalls – with an inarguable opening statement.
