I tend to get quite hung up on what exactly ‘art’ is, and I have pondered seemingly endlessly on this matter. Recently I’ve been d…

Yesterday the movers and shakers and grey old men of the arts industry met at State of the Arts, a conference ‘to debate iss…

Being advertised at is easy to ignore. I barely glance at the right-hand side of Facebook now, and if you have tweeted about how a…

At a recent Devoted and Disgruntled satellite event, I met two members of Filskit Theatre – a company using innovative proje…

Sitting at my desk this week I had two really rubbish pieces of news in less than half an hour. First, I was told AFoundation was…

Politics, as Andrew Neil recently pointed out, has gone posh. The music scene has never been posher. So what about arts and cultur…

The latest statistics published by VIDA have re-sparked debates in the blogosphere on the under-representation of women in literar…

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year was an international jamboree for all things mobile – a industry much more…

As well as working in the arts, I am a scriptwriter, so it might surprise you to find out that I didn’t enjoy a live play, p…

Arts & Business has been conducting the annual Private Investment in Culture Survey (PICS) in one form or other for more than…

Last Friday saw me speaking at ‘A Space for Learning’, Irish Architecture Foundation’s first symposium on archit…

With February upon us, it may sound stupidly self-evident to say that the holiday season is over. But being American, I can justif…

Rosalind Riley (AP231) makes many telling points when arguing that the arts should be state funded. Unfortunately, all her argumen…

I read with interest the articles in your last issue (AP232) about arts funding. As the Chairman of a large UK public company, wit…

Laura Brown’s article Do arts organisations REALLY need business to tell them how to do their job? struck me as simple polem…

Continuing my series on emerging women, this post focuses on Amy Nettleton, a conceptual artist working in installation and sculpt…

When I decided to leave my job last year and go “freelance”, I wasn’t really certain of what I was letting mysel…

The beginning of a new year for me as a freelancer has always been met with a certain amount of trepidation. Looking down the long…

I’m guessing that some of you might have had an iPhone or android phone for Christmas. And you might have made some New Year…

We will never have it so bad. The only thing that’s going to save us now is business. Business is the only saviour the arts…

Having recently joined a contemporary Art Gallery in Surrey on a traineeship, the first couple of exhibitions I have assisted on h…

It seems abundantly clear to me that small arts organisations are facing a real battle at the moment, by which I mean organisation…

I herald from a small town in the West Midlands known as Shrewsbury; the folk of Shrewsbury have just one theatre and the repertoi…

Last weekend I read Vanessa Thorpe’s article about gallery rage and felt compelled to respond to the piece from the point of vie…