Barbican artistic director stands down
Louise Jeffreys, artistic director of the Barbican Centre since 2010, has announced that she is to leave at the end of this year.
Gentle art to dispel violent myths
A tent town is growing today on a farm in Hampshire, big enough to accommodate the 35,000 people and more who will come from 100 different countries for this weekend. Many are coming to learn the arts of handwriting.
Milton Keynes Stables fight on to survive
The Stables, the Milton Keynes music venue built by Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine and opened in 2000, is appealing to the local planning authority to refuse permission to a new development that could destroy it.
Bradford enters 2025 City of Culture race
Bradford is the latest entrant to the competition to be UK City of Culture in 2025.
Archbishops’ coffins mean museum must raise funding target
The discovery of the coffins of four Archbishops of Canterbury in its precincts means a museum will have to increase its redevelopment funding target by £300,000.
Lowry’s Going To Work comes home
One of L S Lowry’s best known works, Going To Work, is being shown for the first time in Manchester, where it will be a permanent resident.
Row over fate of Usher Gallery
Lincoln city and county at odds over money saving plans, reports Patrick Kelly
Threat of museum strike at Bradford
Union to ballot members over planned cuts, reports Patrick Kelly.
Scarborough merges cultural organisations
Art gallery links with Woodend. Patrick Kelly reports
Nicky Morgan is new culture secretary
The former education secretary, Nicky Morgan, is the new Secretary of State for a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport following Jeremy Wright’s sacking.
