Heritage high streets get £62m boost
High street buildings are to be turned into creative spaces thanks to a new £62m government fund, the Department of Digital Culture Media and Sport has announced.
First affordable CEZ artists’ studios open
Eighty-five affordable artists’ studios have opened in Deptford, South London, as part of the Mayor of London’s Creative Enterprise Zone scheme.
Plymouth to reopen Elizabethan House museum
£2m restoration will finish in 2020
Lottery support for Northern arts organisations
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is backing a new scheme, to be run by Creative United, help cultural organisations in the North with business advice.
Fears over Brexit fuel art exports to EU
The value of art, collectors' pieces and antiques exported from the UK rose to a three year high of £5.4bn in 2018, up from £5.1bn in 2017.
Peter Hall’s theatre facing closure
Kingston Council’s withdrawal of funding may see the closure of the Rose Theatre, created by Sir Peter Hall and opened in 2008.
Export block on judge’s Chatterley copy
The government has put a temporary block on the copy of D H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by the judge at the novel’s obscenity trial in 1960 – perhaps the most famous Old Bailey trial of the 20th century - complete with his wife’s annotations.
Armitage the new Poet Laureate
Simon Armitage has been appointed the new Poet Laureate, following an unexpectedly troubled search for Dame Carol Ann Duffy’s successor.
Wales consider arts for core subject
Arts subjects could become a core class for Welsh school children if a proposed new curriculum is put in place.
Bristol's Bricks aim to reclaim police station for the arts
Bristol's arts charity Bricks are hoping to create a new arts hub in one of the city's old police station.
