18.04.2012 / News
Sheffield Museums chooses new chief
Streets steps up from director’s role
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12.04.2012 / Heritage
Cash boost for Hadrian’s Wall
Grant will protect threatened sections
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Welsh museums’ visitor success
NMW posts best ever year with £1.6 million visitors
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Creative Skills theatre survey
ACE backs online poll on impact of public investment
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Theatres Trust welcomes new planning rules
Success for lobby to restore culture to planning framework
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Home Office climbdown on visas
New system will ease artists’ entry to UK
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Standstill budget for Northern Ireland arts groups
ACNI shares £13 million between 93 bodies
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Grant scheme for young musicians
Charity backs emerging careers
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Liverpool museums in cuts warning
NML may have to cut more than 100 jobs
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Surge in heritage crime
Nearly one in five listed buildings affected
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‘Censorship’ claim in NI arts
Culture minister denies ‘gagging’ Northern Ireland Arts Council
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£3.2 million boost for Edinburgh Festivals
City will also host international culture summit
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Latest appointments
Brining moves from Dundee to West Yorkshire Playhouse
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National Museum of Scotland doubles visitors
ALVA figures show boost for revamped museums and galleries
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British Council: ‘Arts are back’
New director announces £16m 2012 package
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28.02.2012 / Museums
Sheffield museums: Dodd steps down
CEO goes in cost cutting restructure
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Henley wants arts on equal footing in schools
Review of cultural education warns on impact of ‘Ebacc’
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Trusts offset arts sponsorship slump
Individual giving is up
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‘Consolation’ funding for Sheffield Museums
ACE’s £341K will save jobs till summer
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Three groups win £7 million to increase audiences
AMA, ABO and Audiences Plus share development pot
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Reprieve for Belfast festivals
Ministers agree funding for a further year
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Creativity key to business future
Conference to explore economy’s artistic potential
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LSO’s Trafalgar Square gift
Free summer concert in BMW sponsorship
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£230,000 boost for library/arts projects
ACE teams up with Local Government Association
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ACE’s £1.25b boost
Vaizey announces lottery bonanza forecast
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Row over cut to Belfast arts fund
Grant loss threatens popular arts festivals
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Lanternhouse to close
Lake District pioneering facility lost ACE grant
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14.02.2012 / Arts funding
ACE announces international artists’ fund
£750,000 joint plan with British Council
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New West End theatre planned
Westminster Theatre saga ends with St James
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09.02.2012 / Museums
Ten vie for £100k museum prize
Scotland challenges England in Art Fund run in
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Merger plan for music education
FMS and NAME in talks to create single organisation
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Sheffield Museums get council backing
Pledge to maintain grant despite Renaissance rejection
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Wizard success for Octagon
Best ever box office take for Bolton theatre
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ACE appoints acquisitions chief
Scott Furlong moves from National Maritime Museum
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Double dip in creative arts applications
University applications down by 16%
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Historic find at Yarmouth theatre
300 year old decorative features found in St George’s
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24.01.2012 / Museums
£80m Design Museum goes ahead
Conran launches transformation of Commonwealth Institute
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Tokens boost for theatre box office
Sales up despite recession, says SOLT
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Fitzmaurice wins Northern Art Prize
Wirral based artist takes away £16,500
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New Cultural Quarter at artsdepot
£ 1 million for arts centre’s North Finchley base
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New art for churches
£10,000 prize for commissioning new art for parish churches
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18.01.2012 / News
Roundhouse turns 360 degrees
Venue makes global links for all-round events
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17.01.2012 / Museums
Like, museums are cool, right?
Teens' plea in new museums manifesto
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Boost for Scotland’s National Trust
Members raise £110,000 for urgent conservation work
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Hill steps down from MOSI
Another museum chief leaves merged NMSI group
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Call for design apprenticeships
Three quarters want places for young people
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£ 1 million boost for Scots museums
Hyslop announces funding for museums and galleries in 2012-13
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22.12.2011 / Museums
ACE’s 12 gifts for Christmas
Acceptance-in-lieu brings yule treasures
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21.12.2011 / News
Public art attack
The theft of Barbara Hepworth's wo Forms (Divided Circle) from Dulwich Park this week is the latest tragedy to hit public art, but there are other headaches too, as Miles Salter reports
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21.12.2011 / Museums
Plea to save Wedgwood Museum
High Court rules collection can be sold
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Council drops theatre backing
Barking and Dagenham’s Broadway faces closure
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Fears over museum review
Leicestershire pulls out of HLF application
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Media museum chief steps down
NMSI parent will not be looking for replacement
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15.12.2011 / Arts funding
McGough to lead poets out of storm
Merseybeat poet president of troubled society
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ACE sets museums new test
New accreditation rules for better visitor experience
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Advice service to avoid theatre cuts
TMA to share good practice on efficiency savings
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MOSI merger agreed
Manchester flagship to become part of Science Museum group
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01.12.2011 / Museums
Museums celebrate decade of free admission
'Massive success' in visitor boost - NMDC
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Warning over music education "hubs"
Music teachers concern over speed of handover from councils
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ACE publishes new rules for arts interns
Joint guidance devised with Creative and Cultural Skills
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24.11.2011 / Arts funding
Bristol spares the axe on arts funding
Standstill budget for arts groups but cuts in arts team
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23.11.2011 / News
Sky's first Ignition winners
£30,000 bursaries for opera director and visual artist
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London’s Fire Brigade Museum faces Closure
Collection may be broken up in cost-saving exercise
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23.11.2011 / Theatre
Hamlet's spotlight
Seven foot elephant star of Theatre by the Lake show
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Plans to sell Darlington Arts Centre
Council says its too costly to run
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Audiences Central to close
West Midlands audience development agency folds after grants cut
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10.11.2011 / News
Lloyd Webber’s £3.5m for ArtsEd
Donation will transform performing arts schools
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Barking’s Broadway Theatre under threat
Council suggests cutting entire subsidy
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Greatest show on earth
Festival 2012 to be Cultural Olympiad big bang
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Northern Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre win Lottery award
Companies’ joint Leeds HQ voted Best Arts Project
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04.11.2011 / News
Report shows arts improves children’s life chances
Cultural Learning Alliance warns of threat to arts in education
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ACE announces spending plans
New programmes for touring and capital
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31.10.2011 / Heritage
Tyntesfield’s Angels
Orangery wins first heritage volunteers’ top award
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Labour promise on arts in the regions
Jarvis attacks government treatment of creative industries
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Fewer students for arts courses?
Drop in early applications for university arts courses
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Creative Aprenticeships 'thumbs-up from industry
Survey shows employers keen on scheme set up in 2008
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Scots invest £10 million in youth arts and crafts
New centres to be set up in Glasgow and Stirling
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Liverpool Museum hits half million
New galleries to open next month
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Plea to save arts in Derby
Cuts will affect Quad, theatre and dance venue
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New director for Belfast Festival
Former Mayoral adviser Mark Prescott appointed
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06.10.2011 / News
Renaissance revision wins Threadneedle £25k
Sponsor extends Mall Galleries commitment
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Historic theatre to re-open
£250,000 grant completes restoration of St Georges in Great Yarmouth
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ACE: new Catalyst details
£100m fund opens with new grant schemes
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28.09.2011 / Museums
£28m ‘Golden Banana’ opens
Colchester’s firstsite gallery claims ancient site
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Visual arts boosts North West
New report reveals major benefits for local economy
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Economy ‘threatens heritage’
English Heritage chief warns on future of historic buildings
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No theatre for many primary schools
Survey reveals 30% of primaries have no theatre opportunities
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20.09.2011 / News
Chipperfield wins critics' first prize
Galleries in Margate and Wakefield clinch award for architect
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Arts groups' fears over planning change
Ixia and studio providers attack government plans
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16.09.2011 / News
Audience agencies to merge
Five regions to create single organisation in England
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Shortlist for museum art prize
Contemporary Art Society names five proposals
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'Arts needs help from planners'
More arts groups exprees fears over planning changes
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Heritage row over planning reforms
English Heritage fears government plans will harm historic environment
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Heritage battle over school
SAVE wants courts to block demolition plan
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Maltings loses its director
Gregory leaves Berwick venue for New Zealand return
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Visitors flood to new museums
Liverpool and Glasgow beat visitor targets
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ACE announces visa criteria
Artists must show exceptional talent to get UK visa
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Scotland plans three year culture showcase
£6.5 billion programme will include two international Games
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York Archives win £100,000 grant
First stage in a planned £1.2 million revamp
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30.06.2011 / News
Hepworth notches up 100,000 visitors
Numbers outstrip targets in less than 5 weeks
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27.06.2011 / News
Cash strapped theatre appeals for help
St Andrew’s Byre Theatre needs volunteers to replace paid staff
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Gainsborough’s House crisis
Trustees at artist’s birthplace lay off director
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Councils' arts spend down £200m
DCLG figures show plummeting local budgets
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14.09.2011 / News
Amanda Davey moves to Greenwich Dance
Switch from East London for general manager
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06.09.2011 / News
Shakespeare to lead Cultural Olympiad
BP to sponsor 'greatest Shakespeare festival ever'
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31.08.2011 / News
Lennon ‘hymn’ commemorates 9/11
Exeter Cathedral chooses Imagine for unifying bell ring
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11.08.2011 / Arts funding
ARTS CUTS: Featherstonehaughs/Cholmondeleys to close
Dance companies are biggest casualty of cuts
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05.08.2011 / Museums
Museum of Scotland smashes visitor expectations
100,000 in first six days
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ACE fields 28 funding appeals
Only one gets decisions overturned
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Theatres combine for 9/11 tribute
National and Bristol Old Vic co-produice new play
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Half creatives may quit - survey
But nearly 70% would fund own training
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Museums ‘devastated’ by local cuts
MA report that a fifth cut by more than 25%
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Museums ACE move criticised by Estelle Morris
Peer's framework report published
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11.07.2011 / News
Dench, Kapoor among Imperiale winners
British names in Japanese roll of honour
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06.07.2011 / Arts funding
Theatre by the Lake's biggest donation
Lady Sainsbury gives £30k for community work
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Hunt launches £55m endowment fund
But Labour dismisses scheme as ‘lost opportunity’
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01.07.2011 / Heritage
Gormley leads new £9m Watts appeal
Painter’s museum saved, now fight is on to save home and studio
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ACE’s £40m philanthropy lever
Catalyst Arts ‘will build resilience’
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Conran's £17.5m to Design Museum
Gift will help move to Kensington
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New tax rules on giving by next year
Government launches consultation
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28.06.2011 / News
Folkestone's Grand day out
Michael Stainer responds to Taitmail with news of a revival of the seaside town's golden days
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25.06.2011 / News
Folkestone’s art showcase opens
19 new works of art on free display
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24.06.2011 / News
Nation’s pictures go on line
Your Paintings gives access to 60,000 oils
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Dance ‘hothouse’ created in Ipswich
Choreographic labs will fill international gap
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21.06.2011 / News
Britain's finest to design 2012 posters
Emin, Creed, Hodgkin in Olympic line up
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18.06.2011 / News
Pye's 'Water Pavilion' unveiled
Sculptor's £1m work to regenerate Norwegian town
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Bristol's £27m city museum opens
M Shed traces history of city's people
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'100 Objects' scoops Art Fund Prize
BM's A History of the World project wins £100k
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15.06.2011 / Theatre
Butetown Somalis get Gulbenkian award
£175k goes to National Theatre Wales Project
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15.06.2011 / News
Unions launch ‘Lost Arts’ campaign
'Time for a coalition of our own' - Maggie Steed
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15.06.2011 / Museums
Lady Anne's inheritance comes home at last
Triptych finally reunited at Abbott Hall
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Plymouth wins £100k ACE grant
The city of Plymouth has landed a £100,000 Arts Council grant to convert a disused slaughterhouse into a venue for the British Art Show later this year.
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Council arts funding slumps
Spending down by third, says survey
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09.06.2011 / News
Young artists get own website
Vuitton sponsors online boost for young contemporaries
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£1/2m for digital art research
ACE/NESTA partnership announces new fund
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31.05.2011 / News
Submarine, cathedral and pier in £11m bonanza
HLF picks five heritage sites for funding
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24.05.2011 / News
Barbican wins Rattle for Olympic high point
Maestro to conduct jazz symphony
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23.05.2011 / Museums
Scotland's £46m national museum to open
Radical recasting of collections, 80% unseen before
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English Heritage’s radical new focus
35% cut means new priorities, says Thurley
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23.05.2011 / Museums
Wakefield's £35m salute to Hepworth and future opens
Chipperfield building at heart of industrial city's rebirth
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£100k museums shortlist announced
Four for Art Fund Prize run-in
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09.05.2011 / Museums
Olympic Museum set for London visit
Covent Garden to host exhibition
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06.05.2011 / Museums
South West museums go contemporary
Renaissance funds new commisioning programme
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01.05.2011 / News
Pope icon's first show
Painted in memory of martyred relative, modern icon centrepiece of rared exhibition
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ARTS CUTS: Blue Eyed to close
Blow for disabled dance says director
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26.04.2011 / News
MLA archive role transferred
The National Archives to take over in 2012
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26.04.2011 / News
Long gets V & A Dundee post
Modern design expert in Scotland will lead design centre project
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24.04.2011 / Arts funding
ARTS CUTS - New challenge to ACE decisions
WAC follows Northern Ballet in questioning cut
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24.04.2011 / Arts funding
ARTS CUTS - Manchester's Greenroom to close
ACE cuts force decision
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18.04.2011 / News
Southampton reveals privatisation plans
City council invites tenders to manage gallery and museums
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18.04.2011 / Museums
'Adam' goes home
Epstein masterpiece back for Harewood House show
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15.04.2011 / Museums
Margate's homage to Turner opens
£17.5m gallery welcomes first visitors
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Vaizey reviews cultural education
Darren Henley asked to submit report by end of 2011
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08.04.2011 / Museums
Mansfield Museum is most family friendly
Surprise choice for Guardian prize winner
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Sky's £1m arts ignition
Channel seeking new projects, artists
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04.04.2011 / Museums
Sheffield Museums cut opening hours
Up to 13 staff will lose their jobs
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04.04.2011 / Heritage
Stonehenge plan may go ahead after all
£25m centre gets government money
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01.04.2011 / Arts funding
ARTS CUTS - Row over ballet cut claims
ACE hits back at 25% figure quoted by Northern Ballet
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01.04.2011 / Arts funding
ARTS CUTS: Audiences UK slams ACE
'Strange' decision - Brownlee
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31.03.2011 / Arts funding
ARTS CUTS: Peter Hall attacks decision
'Slap in the face' for Rose
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31.03.2011 / Arts funding
Chilling impact of disproportionate cuts to the arts
Labour condemned the “chilling impact of disproportionate cuts to the arts.”
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30.03.2011 / Arts funding
ARTS CUTS: Director of The Poetry Trust responds.
The Poetry Trust has not been awarded NPO status from Arts Council England for the period 2012-15.
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30.03.2011 / Arts funding
‘Wider reach, future vision’ - ACE
Local authorities, audience research big casualties
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30.03.2011 / Arts funding
ACE challenges Vaizey’s 11% cut claim
Davey stands by additionality rule
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30.03.2011 / Arts funding
Quick round-up of ACE funding
Whilst waiting for the full news story since the announcement, here is a quick round-up of the latest figures:
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30.03.2011 / Arts funding
Northern Ballet told to accept 25% cut
Leeds-based Northern Ballet, though still funded has been told it to accept a 25% cut (£800k) in grants from next year.
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30.03.2011 / Arts funding
ACE press release prior to announcements
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND ANNOUNCES FUNDING DECISIONS AND NEW NATIONAL PORTFOLIO OF ARTS ORGANISATIONS
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30.03.2011 / Arts funding
ACE announces new look finding after 30% cuts
Half applicants fail, 206 RFOs turned down
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28.03.2011 / Museums
V&A chooses Selfridges designer for new look
£35m scheme starts now
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28.03.2011 / News
Parliamentary report slams ACE
MPs have attacked the Arts Council in a highly critical report.
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24.03.2011 / Arts funding
Duffield gives £8.2m for education projects
11 organisations to benefit
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24.03.2011 / News
Larkin project generated £1 million in Hull
Arts initiative attracted 120,000 visitors
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'Big freeze' funding for Scotland
Culture bodies get compensation for losses due to weather
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22.03.2011 / Heritage
UK chooses its World Heritage nominees
Darwin’s House gets second chance
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Gold hoards saved for nation
Treasure in Scotland and Somerset to go on show
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21.03.2011 / Arts funding
ACE delays funding news to beat Twitter
Applicants will hear decisions half an hour before public announcement
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21.03.2011 / News
Scotland aims to top culture league table
Creative Scotland in pledge to grow cultural economy
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21.03.2011 / News
Boris head-to-head with government on artists' visas
'Unnecessary bureaucratic burden', says London mayor
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18.03.2011 / Arts funding
Leading accountants call for arts tax cuts
'Vital for health of sector'
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17.03.2011 / Arts funding
NAO slams DCMS cuts
Cost implications not taken into account, spending watchdog says
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17.03.2011 / Museums
Museums' purchase fund threatened after 120 years
Art Fund rejects MLA plea for help
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15.03.2011 / Arts funding
U-turn over cuts in NI arts funding
The arts in Northern Ireland wins reprieve from swingeing cuts.
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14.03.2011 / News
Brown steps down from West Yorkshire Playhouse
Artistic director to leave in 2012
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Theatre leaders fear biggest threat in decades
‘Cuts will cause lasting damage’ say famous names
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Glasgow's still better
Report shows massive increase in culture since 1990s
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08.03.2011 / News
Foster wins £17bn W Kowloon arts contract
Brit plan choice follows Sheffield's departure
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07.03.2011 / News
Council sells £148,000 of art
Leicestershire plans a further £50k in sales
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04.03.2011 / News
EXCLUSIVE: Surprise Balshaw appointment signals power share for Manchester galleries
City/university in joint funding and admin agreement
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03.03.2011 / News
City Festival dedicated to disaster victims
Australian and NZ composers and players dominate line-up
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03.03.2011 / News
Cultural Leadership Programme to close
Funding cuts blamed for ACE decision
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03.03.2011 / News
'Make LAs responsible for arts' - Smith
Ex-culture secretary calls for statutory role to safeguard culture
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02.03.2011 / News
Sky high ‘typhoon’ for Merseyside
Sculptor’s Olympic art harnesses nature
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02.03.2011 / News
Music business tackles Gove
MIA joins campaign on English Baccalaureate
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01.03.2011 / News
Sheffield in British Council switch
Ex-Barbican arts chief new international director
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28.02.2011 / News
King's Speech acclaimed by Film Council
Investment ensured Oscar smash could go ahead
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24.02.2011 / Arts funding
North Yorks slashes culture by 80%
Funding down from £145k to just £30k
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24.02.2011 / News
Sky report slams ‘badge slapping’ sponsorships
Call for ‘innovation’ in arts partnerships
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24.02.2011 / News
Derry appoints culture year chief
‘We’ve won the cup, now we must play the game’ – chair
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23.02.2011 / News
Music Industries Association joins campaign on GCSEs
Trade body wants Gove to include music in list of 'approved' subjects
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21.02.2011 / Arts funding
Ikon Eastside to close
Birmingham gallery victim of funding cuts
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16.02.2011 / Heritage
HLF rescues places of worship fund
£9 million grant will allow joint scheme with English Heritage to survive cuts
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11.02.2011 / News
Vaizey: I won't intervene on local cuts
MInister tells arts to be ' creative' about alliances Forgan attacks cuts to ACE
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10.02.2011 / Arts funding
ACE chair calls for 'respect'
'Our artists valuable as North Sea oil, but more enduring'
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08.02.2011 / News
Gove protects music education spending
Henley Review recommends higher status for music in schools
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07.02.2011 / News
Mastercard relaunch Oliviers
Credit card sponsorship brings theatre awards back to TV
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07.02.2011 / News
Abstract is back
Exhibition aims to restore popularity of non-figurative art
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07.02.2011 / News
EXCLUSIVE: Ouija nightmare halts film
'Possessed' actor attacks girl
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04.02.2011 / Museums
Museums Assocaition condemns Renaissance cuts
Move comes as MLA chair to observe ACE switchover
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03.02.2011 / News
£35m Hepworth Wakefield opens in May
Largest new gallery outside London a tribute to community
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Ten for Art Fund £100k announced
BM to Polar Museum vie for 2011 prize
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Behind the 3D camera
AI joins Sky Arts at the Royal Academy as TV history is made
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02.02.2011 / News
Google’s ‘street view’ of art
National Gallery and ‘Ambassadors’ joins online scheme
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Self employed arts sector to grow - report
Research shows sole traders are a third of creative businesses
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ISM: Cuts to music lessons 'too far, too soon'
Musicians body says councils should wait for Henley
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01.02.2011 / Museums
BBC’s Cox calls for support for science museums
BBC TV science presenter Professor Brian Cox has called on funders to support science museums.
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27.01.2011 / Arts funding
Vaizey promises £1 million technology fund
ACE and NESTA will back scheme
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English Heritage “No” to Liverpool docks plan
Major development 'may damage' underground heritage
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26.01.2011 / News
‘Poirot’ wins theatre award
Suchet honoured by critics for Miller performance
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25.01.2011 / News
Dame Judi gets top Southbank/Sky Arts award
Low budget Misfits beats Mike Leigh
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24.01.2011 / News
Northern Art Prize awarded
Sheffield’s Haroon Mirza takes £16,500 prize
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21.01.2011 / News
Boris's Olympic river park
Futuristic £20m floating Thames showcase wins Mayor's prize
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20.01.2011 / News
Southbank 'tonic' to echo 1951
Homage to Festival of Britain 60 years on
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20.01.2011 / News
Globe's multingual Olympic marathon
All Bard's plays in everything from Urdu to Maori
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Liz Lochead is Scotland's National Poet
Poet succeeds Morgan as Makar
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Jazz worth £80 million to UK - survey
Research shows jazz musicians earn less than £25k
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Hollywood steps in to Hitchcock rescue
Scorsese foundation’s largest single donation to BFI campaign
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11.01.2011 / News
Folkestone chooses its mermaid
‘Free spirit’ mum to be sculpture model
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11.01.2011 / News
ICA appoints Muir
ACE-funded gallery looks to commercial sector for new director
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07.01.2011 / News
Sheffield quits Hong Kong after six months
Ex-Barbican arts chief cites ill health
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06.01.2011 / News
Derby festival makes £2million
ACE report shows festival success as 2011 funds sought
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31.12.2010 / News
London cancels arts funding
ACE ‘disappointed’ at failure to see importance arts to local life
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30.12.2010 / News
Philanthropists get New Year honours
Inclusion part of government plan
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22.12.2010 / Arts funding
Northern Ireland arts face heavy cuts
Draft Budget slashes arts spending by 9%
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20.12.2010 / News
Museums merger plan in West Yorkshire
Kirklees and Calderdale in talks about merging museums and galleries
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20.12.2010 / News
Libraries chief hits out at cuts
CILIP writes to all MPs urging opposition to closures
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20.12.2010 / News
Scots survey shows impact of children's culture opportunities
Research proves link between children's access to culture and adult participation
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17.12.2010 / News
Audiences ‘shunning arts’ shock report
But DCMS figures against other indicators
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16.12.2010 / News
Falmouth's Brian Stewart dies
Inspirational curator who revived gallery
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14.12.2010 / News
Brum slashes arts funding by 17%
Performances Birmingham and CBSO among big losers
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14.12.2010 / News
‘Creative industries need cross-government leadership’
Labour says laissez faire policy could kill success
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10.12.2010 / News
Nalgao agrees name change
Local government body to extend membership to all arts workers
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09.12.2010 / News
Riding accident inspires Olympic music
Sally Beamish commissioned for piece about her paralysed friend
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09.12.2010 / News
ACE agrees to take on museums and libraries
Renaissance redesign part of package
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08.12.2010 / News
Hunt's £80m philanthropy fund
Government to use lottery to boost private giving
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07.12.2010 / News
Sound artist Phillipsz wins Turner
‘Vocal sculpture’ scoops £25,000 prize
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07.12.2010 / News
ACE cuts Olympic funding
Glittering array of early commissions for Cultural Olympiad
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07.12.2010 / Arts funding
No new art gallery for Leicester
Council abandons £2.4 million plan
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07.12.2010 / News
Row over Edinburgh Fringe venue
Council at odds with festival organisers over future of Assembly Rooms
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06.12.2010 / News
Vaizey's select moment
Cartoonist captures arts minister's committee appearance
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02.12.2010 / News
Dulwich’s masterpiece celebration
The world lends treasures for first gallery's bicentenary
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30.11.2010 / News
‘Lost’ Maugham paintings go to Bath’s Holburne
Refurbished museum to open with 18c theatre masterpieces
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25.11.2010 / News
Scott, Science and sex for NHM
Museum reveals new thinking with spectacular programme
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23.11.2010 / News
RSC’s £113m world hug
Transformed Stratford theatre ‘opens it’s heart’
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23.11.2010 / News
ACE to take over MLA functions
Ministers in talks to switch Renaissance to arts body
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23.11.2010 / News
Last Eros ready for show
Highland foundry produces final version of Gilbert masterpiece
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22.11.2010 / News
Brueghel goes home to York
Appeal to save masterpiece reaches £900,000
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19.11.2010 / Arts funding
Darlington may hand over theatre
Council in talks to prevent Civic Theatre closure
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18.11.2010 / News
£10m for Stonehenge
HLF grant rescues scheme government pulled out of
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18.11.2010 / News
Laugh-aloud Louises take Dahl prizes
Winners of funniest children’s books
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Major regional museums to lose funding
Chop hidden in DCMS business plan
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17.11.2010 / News
Zoffany's cheeky secret
Exhibition to reveal painters' 'little joke'
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Scots arts cuts held at 4%
Creative Scotland cash held level next year, flagships trimmed
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17.11.2010 / News
National Gallery's £1m gift
US industrialist's cash will go to education centre
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15.11.2010 / Heritage
Lords call for treasure protection
Eminent archaeologist calls for help for museums in treasure bidding wars
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15.11.2010 / Arts funding
Anger over museum charges plan
Opposition is growing to a proposal by Stoke City council to charge admission for the city's museum.
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15.11.2010 / News
Boris pleads for London’s arts
‘This is not a time to be lowering our ambitions’ mayor tells government
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11.11.2010 / News
Ebbw Vale theatre loses funding
ACW considering arts centre feature for Beaufort
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09.11.2010 / News
Courtauld fund raising success
The Courtauld Institute has announced that it has raised an extra £7 million in private sponsorship.
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09.11.2010 / News
Contract row sees Scottish Ballet ‘saviour’ quit
Scottish Orchestra loses head, Scottish Opera faces musicians’ walk-out
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05.11.2010 / Heritage
HLF eases grant conditions
Heritage body wants to help in hard economic times
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04.11.2010 / News
ACE launches biggest funding transformation for a generation
'Manifesto for ambition' - but 100 RFOs may go
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Somerset goes ahead with arts cuts
Somerset Council is pushing ahead with plans to cut all grants to arts organisations in the county.
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02.11.2010 / News
New Serpentine gallery for Olympics year
Zaha Hadid to transform listed Kensington Gardens former arms store
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28.10.2010 / News
NT’s £10m gift for the Future
Cottesloe to be renamed for Travelex boss
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‘Frontloading will be devastating’ – Labour
CSR is unravelling, say Ivan Lewis
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26.10.2010 / News
‘Companies will close’ – Spalding
Sadler’s Wells will have to tighten belt despite record year
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‘Young people losing access to arts for ever’
CCE’s funding halved in first year of cuts
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A&B facing closure
Funding decision ‘extraordinary and potentially very damaging’ – Tweedy
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ACE hands out 6.9% cut in first year
But council ‘concerned’ about its own ability to operate with 50% slash; A&B lose funding by 2012
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Young ‘alienated’ by classical concerts
Report calls for complete rethink on music presentation
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ROH chief calls for exemption for migrant artists
Royal Opera House chief Tony Hall has called on the government to exempt top artists from immigration controls.
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Derry appeal for support
Organisers of the Derry City of Culture in 2013 have appealed to Northern Ireland politicians to honour their commitments to support the event.
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Plus Tate draws 18 regional galleries together
Scheme will pool resources and build collaboration
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21.10.2010 / News
Davey: ‘We’ll try to keep cuts to 10% next year’
Pledge from beleaguered ACE chief – ‘It’s our decision’
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‘15% for RFOs still tough’ - NCA
Louise de Winter calls cuts an endorsement, but warns about impact of MLA, Film Council closures on ACE
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Renaissance stays – with 15% cut
Doomed MLA welcomes our more years for regional museums scheme
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Cuts ‘too deep, too quick’ - Lewis
Shadow culture secretary says its ‘bad news for economy, bad news for society’
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It’s 30% cut for ACE
National museums kept to 15%, Creative Partnerships scrapped
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Arts bracing for 25%+ cuts
Fear of 'front loading' which would put weight of cuts on first year
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Watercolour competition
Emma Haworth has won the £10,000 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition with this painting, Snowy Woods.
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Vaizey admits private cash easier for London
Coalition culture minister Ed Vaizey has admitted that arts organisations outside London will find it harder to attract private investment to replace government funding.
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Sheffield axes ‘world class’ exhibition
Sheffield Museums have had to axe a top exhibition from its schedule because of cost pressures.
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Rochdale cuts plan angers MP
Cuts of up to 50% in Rochdale’s arts and heritage department are being considered by the council.
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16.10.2010 / News
Liverpool petition names urging ministers to protect funding
More than 18,000 people have signed a petition urging central government to maintain adequate funding for National Museums Liverpool.
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English Heritage/HLF remain separate
There were no new major shocks for the arts and heritage sector in the ‘bonfire of the quangos’ announced by the government, in which 192 have been scrapped and another 118 merged.
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Arts cuts
More than 80% of arts organisations would be unable to cope if next weeks arts cuts are more than 25%, according to a new survey by the research organisation Arts Quarter.
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Life after cuts?
Latest image in artists' campaign arts cuts is released
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GMTV’s Gloria on Labour’s culture team
Labour’s pin-up girl, former journalist and GMTV presenter Gloria De Piero, has joined the shadow culture team.
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Leeds probes arts grants
Leeds City Council is to set up a special working group to look into its grants to arts organisations in the city.
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Heritage 'vital' for economic growth - survey
New research by heritage organisations has underlined the importance of heritage to the UK economy.
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Plan to revive Penzance arts centre
Acorn Arts Centre in Penzance, which was forced to close in May, may re-open as an arts venue.
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80% of arts organisations 'won't cope'
Less than half could match cuts with cost reductions
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Arts ‘scaremongering over cuts’ – Tory MP
Culture select committee member accuses arts and heritage sector of exaggerating effects of 25-30% cuts
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Lottery reform from 2012 to mean £150m boost
Heritage minister sets parliamentary wheels in motion as arts braced for 'bleeding stump' cuts.
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English Heritage/HLF remain separate
Arts spared new quango bonfire, ACE stays independent
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Ivan Lewis is shadow culture secretary
Ivan Lewis, the 43-year-old MP for Bury since 1997 and former Foreign Office minister, is Ed Milliband’s choice as shadow culture secretary.
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NT gets refurb go-ahead
The National Theatre has got the green light for a £70m refurbishment, with planning permission being granted by Lambeth Council.
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Philanthropy to the rescue?
Philanthropy is not coming to the rescue of beleaguered arts organisation - yet.
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Vaizey announces Renaissance changes
The government is to change the existing Renaissance in the Regions programme by replacing the hub system with a group of core museums and creating a challenge fund to give all regional museums access to Renaissance funding.
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'Arts facing Blitz' - Serota
Sir Nicholas Serota, director of Tate, has ramped up the growing campaign against the expected slashing of arts funding by describing the proposed 25-30% cuts as 'the greatest crisis in the arts and heritage since government funding began in 1940...
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‘YouView is arts’ TV future’
The combination of the internet and television could be the next dimension for the arts
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BFI expects ACE to take on film funding
Responsibilities for the film industry are to go to ACE after the abolition of the UK Film Council, the BFI believes
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‘Lay off education’ warns Hunt
Culture secretary tell cut theatres tp maintain education responsibilities
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‘The arts are to Britain what the sun is to Spain’
Artists are leading an on-line campaign against the expected arts cuts, with Mark Wallinger's modification of Turner's The Fighting Temeraire (pictured) bearing the legend 'If 25% were slashed from arts funding the loss would be immeasurable' the latest. ...
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Creative Partnerships for the axe
ACE has told the Creativity, Culture and Education charity that the Creative Partnership programme it took over a year ago from ACE is to be scrapped.
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