Airey slams racism in the arts in first speech as ACE chair
Dawn Airey, the new chair of Arts Council England, has chosen her inaugural speech in post to point the finger at racism and Islamophobia in the arts in Britain.
Hamlyn's Moira Sinclair to chair Rowntree
Moira Sinclair, chair of Clore Leadership and for ten years CEO of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, is to be the new chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Shona McCarthy takes over at troubled Irish Arts Council
Shona McCarthy, for nine years the CEO of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe whose fortunes she revived recording the most successful Fringe year in 2019, has taken up her new post as director of the Arts Council of Ireland.
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
The Amish, January 1989, Roger Bamber
Universal free admission remains for national museums
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.
ACE introduce simpler grant applications for longer funding cycle
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
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
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
A fundraising campaign has been launched for a new woodland community theatre to open in 2027.
Science Museum ends BP sponsorship
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.
