Public art grows on back of housing boom
New survey shows uneven regional picture
Kramer to lead ENO
Daniel Kramer, the American-born multi-disciplinary performance director, is the new artistic director of English National Opera.
Go-ahead for Globe of the North
A £19m Shakespeare playhouse for Merseyside has been given planning permission and should become operational in 2019.
Art Fund Prize: 'Bedlam' shortlisted for £100,000
The Museum of the Mind at Bethlem Royal Hospital, West Wickham – which gave the English language the word ‘bedlam’ - is one of four short-listed for the £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year Award.
Arts jobs up, says ONS
The number of jobs in the arts has increased by 4% in the past year, according to the Office of National Statistics.
James Runcie for BBC arts post
James Runcie, son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, has been appointed to one of the top BBC arts posts.
Charterhouse to reveal secrets after 660 years
The Charterhouse, originally a 14th century monastery built on a Black Death plague pit in Clerkenwell, London, and later the house where Elizabeth I called her first Privy Council meeting and James I stayed before his coronation, is to be opened to the public for the first time in its history.
Whittingdale under fire over NPG intervention
Culture secretary John Whittingdale is under fire over his intervention in the appointment of trustees to the National Portrait Gallery.
Turner for £20 note
J M W Turner’s Self Portrait of 1799 from the Tate is to feature on the new £20 banknote. The National Gallery’s Fighting Temeraire will also be used on the new note.
NPG acquires unseen Freud
A recently discovered self-portrait by Lucian Freud, who died in 2011, has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, in lieu of tax.
