Click goes the election starting gun
Alan Sparrow on the trials of election photojournalism
TAITMAIL Council cash crisis? Flog the art
By Patrick Kelly
It may surprise you to know that the TaxPayers’ Alliance, that secretive lobby group that promotes low taxes and free market fetishism, has long had a fixation about art, particularly that art owned by the public.
REVIEW Reverspective: the inside-out-world of Patrick Hughes
This is a self-portrait of the surrealist artist Patrick Hughes. It looks like a conventional convex life mask, but it isn’t: it’s concave, a paradigm of Hughes’s “reverspective” world.
AI PROFILE Helen Wallace and the nature of music
What Kings Place’s 2020 season Nature Unwrapped – Sounds of Life is emphatically not about is climate change. It is so much more.
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE The twittering of governance
A year ago the Cultural Governance Alliance (CGA) was set up by the Clore Leadership Programme, with partners such as UK Theatre, Cause 4 and Association of Independent Museums, writes Simon Tait.
THE WORD The operatic canon in crisis?
Following an international research project and a meeting of stakeholders at the Royal Opera House earlier this month, the picture remains complex, writes Cormac Newark.
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Fireworks on Blackheath, South London, tower over the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich, Nov 4, 2017 (a three image combo), by Roger Jackson
Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image
Drama of Becket's assassination, back in the cathedral
Great drama has a way of always being relevant whenever it is performed, even if, like T S Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, it isn’t performed very often, writes Simon Tait.
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE RSC/Barbican see new hope for arts in Ofsted move
Figures show that arts subjects in schools are still declining but, following the announcement of their joint conference series starting in January, Jacqui O’Hanlon of the RSC and Jenny Mollica of the Barbican show a new Ofsted framework offers renewed hope
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Black Saturn, 2019, by Martin Lewis
Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image
THE WORD The art of reviving a high street
Historic England is the caretaker of a £95m fund to help struggling high streets. Its chief executive, Duncan Wilson, explains how his organisation will involve arts and culture to help these areas get their mojo back.
TAITMAIL The Fed’s road map away from the abyss
Just over a year ago the Creative Industries Federation was facing an abyss. Staff were leaving, so were the members that provide its revenue, and a large part of its reserves was being spent on non-disclosure agreements.
