AI PROFILE Bringing the palace back to the people
Louise Stewart, chief executive of alexandra park and palace Charitable Trust
AI PROFILE Bringing the palace back to the people
Louise Stewart, chief executive of alexandra park and palace Charitable Trust
PASSING BY… The Nick of time
With the appointment of Sir Nicholas Serota as the next chair of the Arts Council, Antony Thorncroft reflects on some of his predecessors
BREXIT Coping with the unknown
How should arts organisations proceed into such an uncertain international future? Callum Lee of BOP Consulting has this advice
MUSEUMS Heaney’s Homeplace
A new internationally flavoured arts centre dedicated to the great Irish poet is opening in a small rural village. Patrick Kelly reports
UK CITY OF CULTURE Everyone back to ours
Hull is preparing to throw its doors open to the world as it looks forward to culture providing the economic boost it badly needs. Simon Tait reports
DEA BIRKETT Panel beating
Dea Birkett finds too little in common among those planning future arts funding
FESTIVALS All in the mind
Sheffield University’s Festival of the Mind brings science and art to the heart of the city
THE WORD Transforming for Rio
Graham Sheffield, director of arts at the British Council, on how cultural connections that challenge exclusion and inequality were forged for Rio 2016
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AI's pick of the best to come
PASSING BY... Beyond the Fringe
Antony Thorncroft casts an eye from afar over this year’s Edinburgh festivals
VISUAL ARTS mima's metamorphosis
Middlesbrough’s contemporary art gallery is undergoing some radical changes, discovers Patrick Kelly
