Welsh arts get £15.4m Omicron boost
The Welsh government is creating a 15.4m emergency fund to support the arts and culture through the Omicron Covid emergency, deputy culture minister Dawn Bowden announced today.
Stoke ditches curators for museums to become film locations
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is making its ceramics curators in two museums redundant in order to turn the venues into film locations.
Southbank’s Bengi Unsal to be new ICA director
Bengi Unsal, the Southbank Centre’s head of music, is to be the next director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, succeeding Stefan Kalmar.
Blazwick to leave Whitechapel
Iwona Blazwick is to stand down as director of the Whitechapel Gallery after 20 years, she has announced today. She will leave in April.
Congratulations…
…to recipients of new year honours in the arts and heritage.
Sunak doubles arts rescue to £60m
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has doubled the £30m emergency rescue fund for the arts following criticism from the sector that it was too little too late for many organisations.
Rosetti poem becomes carol of the year
A musical setting of a Christina Rosetti by a lawyer and mother of two has won the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition.
Scotland’s £21m for culture and freelancers
The Scottish government is committing £21m in a support package for cultural and events organisations and freelancers hit by cancellations in the latest Covid crisis.
Sunak adds £30m to culture recovery fund as emergency bail-out for the arts
Arts organisations hit by the Omicron Covid-19 variant are to get help from a £30m addition to the culture recovery fund (CRF), Chancellor Rishi Sunak said today.
Extra £5.25m to help Wales’ arts survive
The Welsh government is making £5.25m to get the principality’s cultural organisations through the winter.
