http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/featureThu, 23 May 2013 10:30:41 Europe/LondonKohanaPHPhttp://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/turning-a-royal-peculiar-into-a-public-particular/255  The government's attitude to the Royal Academy puzzles its president. Here is a £25m a year national institution which is in receipt of not a bean of subsidy and yet survives commercially with internationally acclaimed presentations - the las...Arts Industry11.5.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/what-next-reinvent-the-wheel/256  What Next? began a couple of years ago with two of us at a café table bemoaning the 30% cut in public investment in arts and culture that was coming down the line. We invited arts organisations from across the country to a meeting and we calle...Arts Industry11.5.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/the-sound-of-the-new/257  Sound and Music, an Aerts Council-funded orgainsation, was created in 2008 to give new music more impact and change its profile. It has a new chief executive, Susanna Eastburn, and has just launched an ambitious new programme framework to achiev...Arts Industry11.5.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/all-in-the-family/258  We all want to be family friendly. It's mother- hood and apple pie. No one in the arts is going to stand up and shout "We don't want families!". But there's a huge gulf between saying and doing, policy and practice. And there's as big a gulf betwee...Arts Industry11.5.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/the-fight-to-survive/259  An April 2012 Northumberland Theatre Company (NTC Touring Theatre Company Ltd) had all its core funding from Arts Council England cut, 65% of its income. One year on we are still here; we have raised over £158,000 from a wide range of sources...Arts Industry11.5.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/paula-rees/260  You have been with Chicken Shed for 25 years this year. How did you come to join? I have been judged from the day that I was born. My family were being judged even more because they wanted me to be accepted for who I am, not on the label that I ha...Arts Industry11.5.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/globally-local/249  When her predecessor, Vikki Heywood, came to the Royal Shakespeare Company a decade ago she had behind her an enormous and successful capital project, the remaking of the Royal Court Theatre, and ahead of her the reconstituting of a fractured theatr...Arts Industry15.4.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/museums-dont-ask-me/250 We’re being asked what we think – again. Muse- um visitors like me, and those who have yet to visit, are being asked their opinion about museums. If you’re not an arts professional, I expect your eyes will be rolling at this point too. As on...Arts Industry15.4.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/historic-grip-on-a-citys-cultural-future/251  Derry~Londonderry is beset by history, you might say besieged by it. The historic walls, 400 years old this year, represent the oldest completely walledc city in the kingdom, and there is still a sense of the "inner" and the "outer". It is a histor...Arts Industry15.4.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/young-early-emerging/252    When and why did you found P Artist Management? Three years ago as a company for art- ists that supported their transition into the fine art market, offering advice on building and sustaining their career in the current climate. Unsurprisingly...Arts Industry15.4.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/code-play/253  A musical box that triggers memories, a kinetic lampshade that responds to touch and transacting payment using everyday gestures - all items inspired by a collaboration between craft and technology that was celebrated in a showcase in Bristol las...Arts Industry15.4.2013http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/whats-bowie-doing-in-the-va/254  The Victoria & Albert Museum is one of the greatest museological institutions in not just Great Britain but the world. It holds the largest collection of decorative art and design anywhere, comprising more than 4.5m permanently exhibited objects. Davi...Arts Industry15.4.2013