How can boards navigate perilous times?
Earlier this month trustees from arts organisations gathered for the flagship annual governance event Governance Now: Imagine it D…
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The future of heritage in England
In light of a complex funding landscape facing England’s heritage sector, Cause4’s Michelle Wright and Annie Jarvis explore the…
Research trips deepen curatorial practice
Art Fund supports UK curators, museum professionals and researchers to undertake activities that develop their curatorial practice…
Celebrating the hyperlocal: Re-thinking the place of arts festivals
To mark the publication of a new report on the state of British festivals, Fiona Goh, director of the British Arts Festivals Assoc…
The business model of place
With the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget committing to an as-yet-unspecified ‘package of cultural infrastructure funding’, Jason…
Skills for life: Transforming the arts through T Levels
Next week is Discover Creative Careers Week, a national government-backed industry-led initiative to inspire young people about ca…
How to create a business that thrives and survives
In our series exploring new business models, Gill Wildman, director of Upstarter incubator, argues they need to be designed in a w…
Producing dance: Hanging on, building back, reimagining?
As a small subsector of the performing arts, dance faces unprecedented challenges. Through his dance network, choreographer and ac…
How to solve a problem like affordability
Four years ago, Battersea Arts Centre launched a Pay What You Can scheme to widen access to live theatre. Robbie Kings has been ev…
Let’s get real: Tackling sector challenges together
A fundamental truth about change is that it’s rarely technology that’s the challenge, it’s the people. Here, The Audience Ag…
Reframing relationships with local authorities
At a time of increasing pressure on budgets for both arts organisations and local authorities, Gavin Barlow of The Albany explores…
Voyagers: Bridging the gap between arts and immersive tech
As co-founder and creative director of MBD, Paul Long has seen first-hand how the use of immersive technology is transforming the…
Intelligent risk-taking
In the second of three articles exploring how cultural organisations can use data creatively, Baker Richards’s Deputy CEO, David R…
Ensuring bread for all and roses too
At £1bn a year, local government is still the major funder of public culture. But local authorities are facing difficult decision…
Reimagining cultural data
Reflecting on the new book Pandemic Culture, Stephen Dobson, director of the Centre for Cultural Value, argues we now need smarter…
Tackling isolation: Know your neighbourhood
Can creativity have an impact on the rising issue of loneliness and isolation? And if so, asks Jessica Plant of Creative Lives, ho…
Radical system change in the workplace
In our series of articles looking at changing workplace culture, Fun Palaces co-director Amie Taylor explores the challenges and b…
Don’t underestimate culture in suburban towns
As a report published this week shows, the cultural sector is not a financial drain, it’s a driver of growth and opportunity, wr…
From overwhelmed to optimised: The AI revolution
As chief technology officer for The Audience Agency, Stephen Miller is often asked questions about technology and AI. Here are the…
Devolution revolution: Unlocking R&D for creative communities
Following the announcement this week that funding for the Creative Communities programme* has been extended until 2027, Lauren Bak…
Is community ownership a viable option for visual arts?
Two Queens, an artist-run gallery in Leicester, is now facing an existential crisis. One option to overcome its precarity and secu…
Civic role of universities improves access to the arts
As the first Associate Director of Arts and Culture at the University of Southampton, and the Director of Turner Sims concert hall…
Creating space
Collaboration drives opportunity, say Lucy French and Tom McKenzie. Here they discuss how collaborative and social enterprise…
What do we mean by being data-driven?
In the first of a series of articles exploring what it means to be data-driven, David Reece argues that, while data is a powerful…
