Digital
Dinenage highlights AI legislation ‘concerns’
The chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Caroline Dinenage has written to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, raising concerns that the government may intend to revive…
Growing ticket bot use ‘threatening’ gig industry
Consumers will eventually be unable to purchase gig tickets to in-demand events without using automated solutions like bots, cybersecurity experts have warned. NordVPN says the num…
Seat-filling ticket agency suffers serious data breach
A ticketing agency that provides customers with cheap seats to struggling shows has issued a warning following a major data breach. Central Tickets, which launched in 2017, offers…
National Youth Theatre and Microsoft team up on AI workshops
The National Youth Theatre (NYT) is partnering with Microsoft to offer a national programme of free workshops to help young people use generative AI to make creative content. A tot…
Digital modelling centre for heritage sector to launch
A new £1m digital modelling and analysis centre for the conservation and heritage science sector will open next year, it has been announced. Heritage organisations will be ab…
BBC arts boss defends commitment to cultural programming
BBC’s Head of Arts and Classical Music TV, Suzy Klein, has countered suggestions that the broadcaster is not supporting its cultural broadcasting. Speaking to The Guardi…
DCMS data indicate creative industries slowdown
Signs of a slowdown follow years of rapid growth for the creative industries with both the previous Conservative government and the current Labour government hailing them…
Launch of Museum Data Service ‘a major milestone’ for culture sector
A digital platform that will bring together more than 100 million object records from 1,750 accredited museums and other collections across the UK has launched today (13 September)…
Digital arts projects in Northern Ireland receive over £75k
Eight artists from Northern Ireland will share £75,835 of funding toward the creation of art projects using digital technologies. The investment is part of Arts Council…
Smaller arts organisations facing worst financial struggles
The latest in a series of articles investigating the state of arts sector finances explores how different sized organisations are faring in the current economic climate.
Illuminate audience data reporting suspended for a further year
Arts Council England (ACE) says it wants to make improvements to the Illuminate software platform to make it 'straightforward' to use.
Big tech firms told to end ‘unlawful’ use of creators’ content
A coalition of trade associations and unions representing creatives has written to big tech firms telling them to end the "unlawful" use of creators' content. The Cre…
IT outage hits arts and culture sector
Arts and culture organisations among industries worldwide affected by major IT outage.
Firm urges culture sector to save Google Analytics data
Arts and culture organisations will be able to access free support tools to save historical data from Google Analytics before the previous version goes offline next month. One Furt…
EXCLUSIVE: NPOs profitability in dramatic decline
Continuing a series of articles investigating the state of arts sector finances, the number of National Portfolio Organisations breaking even has shrunk at an alarming rate.
Labour labels Frazer ‘disingenuous’ over culture funding claims
In a hustings held by Creative UK, Labour said it would review arts and culture funding and seek to encourage philanthropic giving.
EXCLUSIVE: Arts finances in worst state for five years
The first of a series of articles investigating the state of arts sector finances highlights a huge decline in the financial health of organisations across the UK.
Museum and gallery visits hit four-year high
Visitor numbers across the 30 museums and art galleries sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, show year-on-year rise but remain more than 10% below pre-pandemic…
Frequent engagement with the arts decreasing
Proportion of people attending arts events on a weekly basis has fallen by 14 percentage points over the last two years, according to government data.
Concerns of ‘digital divide’ across cultural organisations
Research finds a 'huge range of effectiveness' between different cultural organisations when it comes to web pages focused on similar goals.
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