British Museum backs BP
The British Museum’s director is backing BP as a sponsor amid growing pressure on arts institutions to distance themselves from the oil company.
Moon – or balloon? Horniman plastics poser
One of the most popular aquarium displays at the Horniman Museum in South-East London is the moon jellyfish, common in the waters around Britiain.
‘Don’t be arts job cheats’ employers told
A new toolkit aims to remove socio-economic barriers to jobs in the arts sector that are causing a class crisis.
Jerwood becomes Hastings Contemporary, the beach gallery
The Jerwood Gallery, opened in 2012 and purpose-built on the historic waterfront Stade at Hastings to hold the Jerwood Foundation’s collection of British Art, reopens tomorrow (July 6) as Hastings Contemporary.
Historic Wales wins Art Fund £100k prize
St Fagans, Wales’s national museum of history near Cardiff, last won the £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year award.
New Museum of London cost leaps to £332m
The cost of transplanting the Museum of London from London Wall to a converted meat market at Farringdon has leaped to £332m, £80m more than had previously been projected.
London’s £1.1bn East Bank under way
Work has begun on the cultural centre in the former Olympic Park at Stratford, East London.
Changes at Opera North
New artistic director appointed after two year gap
Russell Tovey curates Margate festival
The actor Russell Tovey, most recently seen in the BBC drama serial Years and Years, is to be the guest curator for the Margate NOW festival.
Top of ACE’s new 10-year strategy: defining ‘the arts’
Arts Council England has published its draft strategy for the next decade, with defining “arts and culture” top of the list of priorities.
