The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
The Princess of Wales in Camelford, Devon, May 12, 1993, Daily Mail, by Richard Lappas
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.
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.
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
Dorothy Sebastian, Joan Crawford and Anita Page, Hollywood, September 29th, 1928, probably Ruth Harriet Louise
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.
THE WORD Creating an end to ‘equal misery’
Nicky Goulder, founding CEO of Create, the charity devoted to making opportunities in the arts accessible, on a special week for community wellbeing
TAITMAIL Open house
If there’s an art form that is especially British, its 2026 season gets under way right now.
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
All the Fun of the Fair, 14th May 1951, uncredited photographer, Associated Newspapers
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
Spithead Fleet Review, 15th June 1953. Daily Mail, by Herbert Mason
TAITMAIL Don’t frighten the Hodge
Margaret Hodge is worried, she told the Commons culture select committee last week.
AI PROFILE: The Big idea that’s getting creativity into higher education
Creativity and the arts have been notoriously missing from the UK schools curriculum. To help tackle the problem, SACHA CORCORAN opened a creative arts sixth form college in Walthamstow, Big Creative Academy, founded 12 years ago and in 2021 opened in its own building at a cost of £21m. She is its principal. It now has 450 pupils aged 16 to 19 specialising in the creative arts, and is open to more.
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
A Portrait of Evil, 5th May 1981, Daily Express, by John Rogers
