TALK OF THE TOWN HALL But they persisted….
Patrick Kelly on the arts champions on local authorities who have made cultural revolutions happen
DEA BIRKETT Paris – where the show never closed
In the first of a series marking the 250th anniversary of the circus, Dea Birkett– the official Ringmaster of Circus250 – goes to Paris where circus is defying the gilets jaunes
DEA BIRKETT Fifteen years ago, a museum visit changed my life
Last week we reported on the reopening of the V&A’s Cast Courts. Here, Dea Birkett recounts her own especial memory of them
Victorian art world – recast by the V&A
The Cast Courts at the V&A, two of the museum’s original 1850s galleries, have reopened after a seven year programme, restored and refurbished as they were 160 years ago.
Bullet Tongue and the red raw world of excluded teens
AI PROFILE Maggie Norris, artistic director, The Big House
MY STORY Nurturing the seedlings of song
Since 1996 Samling has nurtured the artistic development of exceptional young singers and piano accompanists at the start of their careers through its artist programme. Founded by Karon Wright, its artistic and executive director, and businessman Roger McKechnie the charity has embarked on a new era with a change of name.
Horse sense
In the new year, a museum centre in Cambridgeshire will be offering a new and unique service no other could: horse therapy.
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Harrow, London, 8th October 1952, by George Phillips
THE WORD Rapping it up: Royston responds to Azealia Banks' UK rap comments
An explosive American rapper has turned her fire on her British counterparts. Royston takes her on
TAITMAIL Governing the not so ungovernable
Governance, the formulation and implementation of policy, has long been the slippery soap of the cultural sectors, arts and heritage.
THE WORD A Brexit doomsday for UK arts?
Olivia Bridge is a content writer and political correspondent for Immigration Advice Service London, the UK’s leading immigration law firm.
Class act
Leeds’s iconoclastic theatre company, Slung Low, is running its own college. Patrick Kelly investigates
