Penny Macbeth, the dean of Manchester School of Art, is to be the new director of crisis-hit Glasgow School of Art in succession to Irene McAra-McWilliam. She will start in May.

English Heritage has apologised after the games industry criticised an advertising campaign which they claimed “dismissed the huge heritage aspect to games”.

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

Jenny Waldman, director of the successful 14-18 NOW arts programme commemorating the First World, is to be the next director of Art Fund, the membership charity that supports museums and galleries and helps them to buy and display works of art.

The Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce has been chosen by the British Council to be Britain’s representative at next year’s Venice Biennale.

A major row between York’s Theatre Royal and its venerable pantomime star Berwick Kaler means there will be two pantos vying for audiences this Christmas.

The artist and writer Edmund de Waal’s Library in Exile of more than 2,000 books of translation written by exiled authors and painstakingly gathered together by the writer and artist is to open in the British Museum next month.

Anti-fossil fuel activists sneaked a large wooden Trojan horse onto the British Museum’s forecourt today in protest against BP’s sponsorship of the museum’s current Troy exhibition.

Glasgow Museums has acquired a 17^th century painting key to Scotland’s Gaelic culture, for a discount price of £500,000.

Michael McGregor, director, Wordsworth Trust/Wordsworth Grasmere

Punch Line, Brighton, July 1992, by Roger Bamber 

Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image

By Patrick Kelly 

“Sustainability” is one of those yawn-inducing words that has suffered through overuse, especially in those tick box council reports that have become a too regular feature of local government.