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.
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Martin Luther King Jr, London, 1 September 1964
Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image
THE WORD Inside Belarus, where the KGB nurture their pot plants and the state theatre joins the demonstrators
EXCLUSIVE There are many stories about life inside Belarus, many apocryphal, but the writer and actor Nichola McAuliffe has her own experiences of the Janka Kupal theatre and fears for her heroic friends there
TAITMAIL Can you trust the board?
The issue of “governance” on running arts originations has always been a thorny one, mostly misunderstood and until fairly recently was never even given a name. Governance, to put it simply, is what boards do.
AI PROFILE Back to the storyboard
The action documentary Coup 53, about the ousting of the Iranian government exactly 67 years ago today in 1953, is released on the anniversary with new material and with the revolutionary techniques of animator and painter Martyn Pick bringing it to life
Blueprint for the Great Outdoors
There’s comedy on the beach at Brighton and in the bars of Brixton, opera with the ENO in the gardens at the Alexandra Palace and theatre in a circus tent in Norwich, all part of Without Walls, as Patrick Kelly reports
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE Culling Culture
The arts face an uphill battle for survival post-Covid and post-Brexit, especially with new restrictions on touring. Even loops in the new rules may not help much, reports Olivia Bridge, political correspondent for the legal consultancy the Immigration Advice Service.
TAITMAIL The cost of joy
Could this have been true? The story goes that when Keir Starmer recently rang Boris Johnson to ask for theatres to be reopened he got the usual non-committal response of “as soon as we safely can”. But at the end of the call Johnson didn’t hang up properly, and the unmistakable voice of his Senior Adviser could be heard exclaiming: “The last people we’re going to allow back to work is those fucking dancers!”
THE WORD Collaboration – the catalyst to save culture
The Catalyst Network is a gathering of entrepreneurial, strategic and operational expertise from across the creative industries that meets regularly to discuss strategic challenges faced by the arts. Kate Rolfe (pictured), the co-chair of the latest Catalyst Thinks discussion, reports on its latest exchanges
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Skegness Beach, summer of 1999, by Tom Pilston
Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image
