http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/featureMon, 21 May 2012 16:39:19 Europe/LondonKohanaPHPhttp://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/the-nationals-future-perfect/183  When Nicholas Hytner announced that the Budget measure to cap tax relief on chari- table giving had lost the National Theatre £250,000 it started the debate that may yet get the government to change its mind about charitable giving. It was seriou...Arts Industry18.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/its-a-dogs-gallery/186  Museums are always look-ing out for new visitor groups to entice through their distinguished doors. Manchester Museum, which has long been at the forefront of widening access to culture, is developing its outreach to a section of the populatio...Arts Industry18.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/courses-for-dark-horses/189  Picture this if you will. A scenario common to the evolution of many theatre practitioners. A theatre director comes into a prison once a week to deliver a theatre workshop to a group of detainees. After many years, and shifts in ambition, the worksho...Arts Industry18.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/making-social-collections/190  Museums and heritage organisations around the world are being recruited to repair shattered social connections by making what the main sponsor of the new website describes as citizen histori- ans of us all. First launched in July last year to ge...Arts Industry18.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/our-simon-bolivars/188  As a highlight of Festival 2012 Venezuela's famous youth ensemble, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, will perform in Scotland with some young musicians from Stirling, and then in the Royal Festival Hall in London. The Bolivar, as concert-goers know wel...Arts Industry18.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/the-sitwells-and-another-jubilee/185 The Sitwell siblings, Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell, were the young literary lions of the 1920s, challenging the Bloomsbury Set’s artistic hegemony and the fashion- able Georgian poets, and championing the likes of Wilfred Owen and the compose...Arts Industry18.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/to-rule-a-wooden-world/174  Neil Constable is the shining exception that tests the rule which says that the- atre companies are run by artistic directors. He has never directed a play in his life, and had expected his career to be as a stage manager. But after establishin...Arts Industry19.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/filling-the-digital-gap/175  The arts and cultural sector in the UK produces some of the most exciting work in the world, continuously creating, reimagining and throwing out fresh challenges and ideas. But only a small percentage of the population gets to experience this work...Arts Industry19.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/the-outsiders/178  It took Artichoke and a giant puppet elephant, imported from France, to define what is being recognised as a particularly British talent. In 2006 Helen Marriage and Nicky Webb, Artichoke's directors, brought the 42 ton 35 feet tall Sultan's Elephant...Arts Industry19.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/nostalgias-not-what-it-used-to-be/177  There's nothing wrong with weeping. We all need a bit of a cry every now and then. But this weekend I've witnessed more public wailing than I consider seemly. I've just returned from Belfast, where the Titanic "celebrations" (their word, not mine...Arts Industry19.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/keeping-tamil-kool/180  When I think about the loss of my culture, I am really trying to home in on an amorphous, niggling feeling that erupts, not when I feel safe and comfortable but when the ground beneath me shifts even slightly, in a look, an expletive, a dismissiv...Arts Industry19.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/new-life-online/182 A museum about the Internet? It’s a paradox that occupied the best brains at the National Media Museum for some time. Surely any exploration of the history and development of the phenomenon which has transformed our daily lives, could only be don...Arts Industry19.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/titanic-task/170  The Titanic used to be an embarrassment in Belfast. Locals were not keen to be reminded that the Great Unsinkable, which sank on her maid- en voyage, was built in the shipyards of the city. "It was fine when it left here," was the invariable laconi...Arts Industry20.3.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/the-not-fame-school/171  It is an extraordinary claim to make, as it does on its website, sounding almost like a pine from a Lloyd Webber musical: "Our job is to develop the soul as well as the intellect... at the same time we would deny that we are a stage school. Wha...Arts Industry20.3.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/the-art-of-economic-growth/173    Much has been said and written about the requirement for higher education to support science, technology, engineering and maths subjects in order to help Britain's economy recover and grow. Against this backdrop - and advocacy of the so-calle...Arts Industry20.3.2012