By Jordan Mullineaux
Arts Council England’s 2028–33 National Portfolio Investment Programme has been published, following Margaret Hodge’s review which called for ACE to become less bureaucratic and prescriptive and to radically simplify its application and reporting requirements. There’s genuine simplification here.
Bono at the Astoria 7 February 2001, The Independent, by Andy Paradise
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.
The Princess of Wales in Camelford, Devon, May 12, 1993, Daily Mail, by Richard Lappas
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.
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.
Dorothy Sebastian, Joan Crawford and Anita Page, Hollywood, September 29th, 1928, probably Ruth Harriet Louise
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.
Nicky Goulder, founding CEO of Create, the charity devoted to making opportunities in the arts accessible, on a special week for community wellbeing
If there’s an art form that is especially British, its 2026 season gets under way right now.
All the Fun of the Fair, 14th May 1951, uncredited photographer, Associated Newspapers
Spithead Fleet Review, 15th June 1953. Daily Mail, by Herbert Mason
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