Tate or tat?

Tate Director Nicholas Serota wields too much influence over what is considered good art, argues Ruth Dudley Edwards

Good reads

Good intentions and empty pockets

Lisa Nandy's Labour Party conference speech may have made all the right noises, but Mark Lawson wonders, with little in the way of practical plans, how can UK culture recover after 14 years of ‘violent indifference'.

The crisis in playwriting

Trust between artists and institutions is at an all-time low, says Royal Court Artistic Director David Byrne, who hopes to turn the tide with the introduction of The Writers’ Card.

Action not words

A recent report from the left-wing think tank, the Fabian Society, offers Keir Starmer some 'sane and imaginative' actions to help fill Labour's arts policy vacuum, writes Richard Morrison.

Opinion

From Olympians to musicians: What sport can teach the arts

18 Sep 2024 Opinion

Why are athletes praised for being elite, while the same epithet applied to musicians carries a connotation of being exclusionary? asks Michelle Robinson.
Research

Music
Developing AI policy for trustees and CEOs

18 Sep 2024 Opinion

Do your governance and leadership teams have a strategy for the use of AI? Or are your teams just experimenting without direction? Cath Hume thinks now’s the time to develop robust policy.
Governance

Management

Artificial Intelligence
Dynamic disaster? Lessons from the Oasis ticketing row

12 Sep 2024 Opinion

With headlines raging around Ticketmaster and Oasis, will there be fallout for arts organisations that price dynamically? Robin Cantrill-Fenwick thinks it’s time to get ahead of a growing conversation.
Ticketing
Unrest, rest and action

11 Sep 2024 Opinion

Part of the point of art is the lens it offers us to look at the world in a different way, to converse with people and perspectives that are not our own, to learn, to disagree and to share, writes Clare Reddington.
Human resources

Diversity

Equality

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