Arts Industry Picture Of The Month Roger Bamber
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month

The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month

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The Amish, January 1989, Roger Bamber 

Universal free admission remains for national museums

Universal free admission remains for national museums

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Admission to England’s 15 nationally funded museums and galleries is to remain free, culture secretary Lisa Nandy announced today, and there will be no special admission charges for foreign visitors.

TAITMAIL. Post-Hodge ACE: slicker, clearer, fairer

TAITMAIL. Post-Hodge ACE: slicker, clearer, fairer

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By Jordan Mullineaux

Arts Council England’s 2028–33 National Portfolio Investment Programme has been published, following Margaret Hodge’s review which called for ACE to become less bureaucratic and prescriptive and to radically simplify its application and reporting requirements. There’s genuine simplification here.

ACE introduce simpler grant applications for longer funding cycle

ACE introduce simpler grant applications for longer funding cycle

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Arts Council England are issuing new guidelines for National Portfolio applicants and introducing a five-year funding period instead of three to give organisations more stability.

TAITMAIL As one Gate closes, another fails to open

TAITMAIL As one Gate closes, another fails to open

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The die is cast, the gamble of a tourism tax – will it raise enough to offset the downturn in foreign visitors some predict, will it be the bonanza many others are promising it will be, what will the income be spent on ? – is on. And the squabbling begins.

Gate Theatre to close

Gate Theatre to close

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London’s award-winning Gate Theatre is to close after nearly 50 years of presenting innovative drama with a panoply of theatre greats, becoming the most significant victim so far of the current theatre funding crisis. It will close at the end of October.

New Forest theatre to open next year

New Forest theatre to open next year

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A fundraising campaign has been launched for a new woodland community theatre to open in 2027.

Science Museum ends BP sponsorship

Science Museum ends BP sponsorship

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The Science Museum has ended its controversial 25-year partnership with BP after its relationship had “drawn to a close” at the end of August.

The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month

The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month

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Bono at the Astoria 7 February 2001, The Independent, by Andy Paradise

TAITMAIL. Theatres losing trust

TAITMAIL. Theatres losing trust

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It could hardly have been a more appropriate way for the Theatres Trust, the national advisory body for theatres involved in the planning process, to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Thanks to its intervention with its unique expert advice, the Prince of Wales Theatre in Cannock Chase will not, as expected, be closed but will instead be refurbished and reopened by the council’s new Reform-led administration.

Export stop on £71m Rembrandt

Export stop on £71m Rembrandt

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In one of her first official acts since being appointed arts minster Ruth Mackenzie has put an export bar on a Remrandt painting valued at £71m, the most expensive object ever to have been accorded national treasure status.

Theatres Trust downgraded

Theatres Trust downgraded

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The Theatres Trust, set up 50 years ago to be the planning advisor on theatre elements of development proposals, has lost its statutory status on England.

NHM to reopen ‘lost’ gallery after 80 years

NHM to reopen ‘lost’ gallery after 80 years

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A gallery of the Natural History Museum that has been closed to the public for more than 80 years is to reopen next month.

Beaulieu motor museum to move after 50 years

Beaulieu motor museum to move after 50 years

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The award-winning National Motor Museum, founded by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in the grounds of his stately New Forest home more than half a century ago, is to move, the museum has announced.

‘Terrified’ Norris takes on Beckett in stage return

‘Terrified’ Norris takes on Beckett in stage return

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Former National Theatre director Rufus Norris will return to the stage for the first time, directing an acclaimed soprano in her first acting role as part of a Beckett festival.

V&A deputy returns to head English Heritage

V&A deputy returns to head English Heritage

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Tim Reeve, currently deputy director and chief operating officer at the V&A, is to be the new CEO of English Heritage (EH), succeeding interim CEO Geoff Parkin.

The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month

The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month

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The Princess of Wales in Camelford, Devon, May 12, 1993, Daily Mail, by Richard Lappas

Ruth Mackenzie joins expanded DCMS

Ruth Mackenzie joins expanded DCMS

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Ruth Mackenzie, since last year director of arts at the British Council, has been appointed an arts minister under Lisa Nandy at DCMS with a seat in the House of Lords.

TAITMAIL Rates bombshell worth millions to museums

TAITMAIL Rates bombshell worth millions to museums

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This could be ground-shifting, it could cost the Treasury billions and put beleaguered museums’ accounts in the black for the first time in years. The word “floodgates” is being mentioned. And this is the first you’ve heard of it.

Lisa Nandy keeps - expanded`? - culture portfolio

Lisa Nandy keeps - expanded`? - culture portfolio

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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy is to keep the job in the Andy Burnham administration she was appointed to by Keir Starmer two years ago, in which she may be given an enhanced role.

Jessica Morgan to run Tate

Jessica Morgan to run Tate

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Jessica Morgan, director of New York-based Dia Art Foundation, is to be the next director of Tate, succeeding Maria Balshaw. She will take up the role on January 1.

NHM £12m rates ruling throws lifeline to museums

NHM £12m rates ruling throws lifeline to museums

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A landmark ruling by the Valuation Tribunal for England has slashed the Natural History Museum’s business rate from £12m a year to just £1 in what could be a ground-breaking decision.

NHM £12m rates ruling throws lifeline to museums

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A landmark ruling by the Valuation Tribunal for England has slashed the Natural History Museum’s business rate from £12m a year to just £1 in what could be a ground-breaking decision.

Shetland’s capital in race to be UK Town of Culture

Shetland’s capital in race to be UK Town of Culture

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The list of 15 small, medium and large towns competing to be the first UK Town of Culture n 2028 has been revealed.

Watts’s new curator

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Cicely Robinson is to be the new Brice curator of Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village, succeeding Nicholas Tromans on April 3.

Dr Robinson had been assistant curator from November 2016, having been at the National Horseracing Museum for here years before that.

A specialist in 19th century British art, she co-curated the Watts’s current exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite art from the Cecil French Bequest, and last year curated the show on the life and work of Helen Allingham.

Dr Tromans is joining Christie’s Education after five years at the Watts.

 

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