Mike Ingham on ACE’s decision to cut funding to the Audience Development Agencies

As a sucker for the double entendre, I’ve always had a soft spot for the phrase, ‘lie of the land’, which turns…

For the vast majority of arts organisation in England (and pretty much all those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) 30 March…

For years you could hear the cry of education funding bodies, the sound echoing through the corridors of drama schools; “wid…

The arts in Northern Ireland have won a temporary reprieve following a huge campaign against the cuts: rather than the proposed cu…

ACE undermined by Select Committee report, just days before its major funding announcement

Jamie Perry considers the role and value of media in twenty-first century art galleries and museums

Details emerge of a new Government-backed initiative to boost philanthropy

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

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…

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

Conference speakers fail to boost morale over public sector spending cuts

The National Union of Teachers and the Musicians’ Union have joined together to oppose cuts to music services. In a new part…

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

Proposed cuts were not fully assessed for gender, disability and race equality impacts, judicial review finds

Sean Egan on the changing landscape for local authorities and the arts

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 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…

This article is about the arts sector, but it’s also about arts venues, those supposed crisp and modern chapels of culture that sh…

The rich can do exactly what they like with their money, and philanthropy is just one option. So what do philanthropists make of t…