TaitMail Class action - literally
It’s hard to find a headline these days that doesn’t feed back into the dreadful impact of the coronavirus and the economic freeze which has followed.
The creative crunch
In an exclusive interview with AI Caroline Norbury, the new chief executive of the Creative Industries Federation, reveals the inside story of the fight to ensure the cultural desert looming in the coming economic downturn is turned into a bountiful garden for the economy, and why the sector and the country need an urgent funding package
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
The 40th of a second that changed a life, 14th June 1958, by Roger Bamber.
Former Fleet Street picture editor Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image
THE WORD Widely read
Arts Council England is spending £151,000 to help public libraries buy e-books and e-audio products to meet demand during the lockdown, with library membership having gone up 600% in the last month compared with the same period last year. Here Sue Williamson, ACE’s director, libraries, outlines what libraries are doing to help their communities
Players of the lockdown orchestra bring live performance - from their kitchens and gardens
Forty members of the Orchestra of Opera North have performed a concert from their own Yorkshire homes – conducted from a church in Stockholm.
MY STORY The am-dram romance lives on
Andrew Foulkes, secretary, Northenden Players
All arts organisations, particularly theatres, are suffering financially through the Covid-19 lockdown, and amateur dramatic societies are no different.
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Will Carling outpaces the Welsh defence at Cardiff Arms Park, 6th February 1993, by Pete Jenkins for the Sunday Telegraph
Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image
Carlos Acosta gets Birmingham dancing
The arrival of international ballet star Carlos Acosta as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet at the beginning of this year has inspired a new dance gala for Birmingham, as Diane Parkes reports
MY STORY The gifts of the outsiders
Monica Bohm-Duchen, creative director, Insiders/Outsiders Festival
Insiders/Outsiders has been a year-long nationwide festival celebrating the accomplishments of the artists, photographers, writers, architects, designers, actors, film-makers, dancers and musicians who fled Nazi Europe in the 1930s, and how they enriched British culture. Its director is Monica Bohm-Duchen, author of Art and the Second World War (2013) and contributing editor of the companion volume, Insiders/Outsiders; Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/113882).
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Harry Benson and The Getty Party, Sutton Place, Guildford, 5am on 30th June 1960
Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image
TAITMAIL We have to grow up about race to keep the soft power pedal down
Sonia Boyce has been chosen to represent Britain at next year’s Venice Biennale. Boyce is 58 and a lauded member of the art establishment: an OBE, a Royal Academician, a UAL professor. She’s been chosen, not a moment too soon, for her innovative art-making that uses performance, drawing and photography which has been stunning us for 25 years.
Barbican and Guildhall, making music together
Milton Court is a rare venue combining performance, concert-going and teaching. Simon Tait finds a unique artistic partnership there between an arts centre and its conservatoire neighbour
