http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/newsMon, 21 May 2012 17:17:14 Europe/LondonKohanaPHPhttp://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/ace-to-cut-150-jobs/504 Arts Council England is expecting to lose 150 posts, 25% of the workforce, by 2015 to meet the 50% administration cut demanded by the government. ACE is proposing to replace its nine regional offices to five – in the North, the Midlands, the Sout...Arts Industry17.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/bfi-announces-273m-film-investment/503  The British Film Institute has revealed a five year programme with a planned investment of £57m a year for film in the UK. Of that, £28.2m will go to increasing support to film making, a 30% increase over five years, find new talent, and skill...Arts Industry16.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/art-fund-shortlist-announced/502Four museums have been shortlisted for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, celebrating ten years this time. The four are - The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter - The Hepworth Wakefield - The Watts Gallery, Surrey - The Scottish National Portrait Gallery...Arts Industry16.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/museums-share-8-million-development-cash/501 Arts Council England has announced the nine successful applicants to the Museum development fund. The award winners, who will share £8 million worth of funding,  include a group of museums and galleries from south-west England,  Herefordshire Heritag...Arts Industry14.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/five-museums-share-75000-collect-fund/500 The Art Fund and the Crafts Council have announced the five museums which take a share of the annual Collect Fund, worth £75,000. The five, National Museum of Scotland, Whitworth Art Gallery,  Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery,  Museums Sheffiel...Arts Industry11.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/keating-takes-over-british-library/499  Roly Keating, director of the BBC's archive content and former controller of BBC2, is the surprise choice to be the next chief executive of the British Library. He succeeds Dame Lynne Brindley in September. Despite having no experience of libraries...Arts Industry11.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/sharon-ament-to-direct-museum-of-london/498Sharon Ament, director of public engagement at the natural History museum, is the next director of the Museum of London, replacing Jack Lohman who left in March. She will start in September. Ament, who has been at the NHM since 2000, is behind th...Arts Industry9.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/ace-announces-network-of-music-hubs/497 Arts Council England has announced the network of 122 music education hubs designed to deliver the government’s pledge to give every child the chance to experience a high quality music education. The new hubs aim to “join up” schools, professiona...Arts Industry8.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/sunderland-quits-tyne-and-wear-museum-body/496Sunderland Council is pulling out of the Tyne and Wear Museums Service.The council wants to renegotiate the current arrangements where the city’s museums are run by a regional body which includes museums in Newcastle, Gateshead, and North and Sout...Arts Industry8.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/sea-odyssey-boost-for-liverpool/495Liverpool’s Sea Odyssey street theatre spectacular made a huge impact on visitor numbers in the centre of the city.  The city’s central Business Improvement District (BID) reported of 990,000 over the three days - 53% higher than the Grand Nationa...Arts Industry1.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/john-peels-discs-takes-space/494  The Arts Council's new Space site went live today, and among its offerings is a unique introduction to the fabled record collection of the DJ John Peel, who dies eight yeas ago. Legendary for discovering and nurturing inventive new bands, he amasse...Arts Industry1.5.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/biggest-ever/493  If the Cultural Olympiad has had a limited impact so far, Festival 2012, its £70m 12-week extravaganza, will be inescapable. Across the country there will be 12,00 events involving 25,000 artists and all 204 of the Olympics participating nation...Arts Industry26.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/heritage-bodies-join-windfarm-battle/492Britain’s two heritage bodies have joined together in an unprecedented move to oppose plans for a windfarm near a listed site.The National Trust and English Heritage have backed East Northamptonshire Council in its opposition to plans for a 127-metr...Arts Industry25.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/tates-tanks/491  Tate Modern's underground industrial storage tanks - used to keep oil when the building was a power station and decommissioned in 1981 - have been transformed into the first dedicated performance spaces for a museum. They will open in July 18 fo...Arts Industry24.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/7m-kept-from-opera/490Fifteen per cent of British adults would like to go to the opera, but can't largely because it is too expensive, according to research by ICM. The online survey carried out for Investec Wealth and Investment found that 52% were put off by the cost...Arts Industry19.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/dont-scrap-dcms-cameron-told/489Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has today called for assurances from David Cameron that he will not scrap the Department of Culture, Media and sport and leaver the arts without a voice in cabinet. Writing in the London Evening Standard Harman...Arts Industry19.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/arts-stakeholders-worry-for-aces-future/488 Arts organisations are worried that the Arts Council will be unable to do its job after the 50% cuts to administration costs imposed by the government in the 2010 comprehensive spending review. ACE’s latest stakeholder report of research carrie...Arts Industry19.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/school-visit-blow-at-sheffield/484  Museums Sheffield has scrapped school visits to one of the historic properties in its portfolio. The museums group has ended its school visits to Bishop’s House because it can no longer afford to staff them. The move follows cuts in Museums Sheffiel...Arts Industry13.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/forgan-slams-philanthropy-blunder/485  Dame Liz Forgan, chair of the Arts Council, has spoken out against the government's plan to cap tax relief on  charitable giving, saying she fears £80m may already have been lost from potential arts donors. Speaking today on the BBC's World a...Arts Industry12.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/drawing-with-leighton/481  Leighton house, the restored home of the Victorian president of the Royal Academy Frederic Leighton, is being opened to the the drawing public on Monday evening or a series of classes and workshop led by the present Head of the RA Schools, Eilee...Arts Industry11.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/dance-world-honours-bob-lockyer/479  The Place, the London dance centre near Euston, is mounting an evening of specially commissioned contemporary dance in honour of Bob Lockyer, the BBC television producer, on his 70th birthday, April 13. Some of the most celebrated names in danc...Arts Industry6.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/garsington-chief-to-stand-down/478  Anthony Whitworth-Jones, who took over as general director of Garsington Opera after the sudden death of its founder, Leonatrd Ingrams, in 2005, is to retire at the end of October. Ingrams created the open air summer opera festival in the ground...Arts Industry3.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/ace-museums-share-63m/477  Three year grants ranging from £5,211,000 to £2,203,658 have been announced for the Arts Council's 16 Renaissance partner museum and galleries, and the final transitional budget for museums leaving the old Renaissance scheme has also been announced. AC...Arts Industry3.4.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/southbank-lead-capital-grants-list/475  Arts Council England have announced 26 arts projects that could share its first £114m handout in its new capital funding programme. They have been successful oin the first phase of the process Heading the list are the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcel...Arts Industry29.3.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/arts-cuts-10-of-ace-losers-close/473  A survey or organisations which lost their Arts Council funding in cuts which comeinto force next week has shown that 10% of them, have either already closed as a result or are closing. In a survey, by the Stage newspaper, of 206 companies acros...Arts Industry29.3.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/forgan-to-leave-ace/469 Dame Liz Forgan is not to be reappointed chair of the Arts Council, culture secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today. The decision is a snub to Forgan and the Arts Council coming at, as Hunt acknowledges in his letter to Forgan, "one of the most difficul...Arts Industry23.3.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/budget-fears-for-philanthropy/468 The chancellor’s new cap on tas relief or donations could mean troble for giving to the arts. The National Campaign for the Arts responded to the yesterday’s Budget by welcoming corporation tax relief for film being extended to animation, T...Arts Industry22.3.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/ace-picks-artsmark-deliverer/465 Trinity College London, the international qualifications provider that specialises in  the performing arts, has been chosen by Arts Council England to deliver its £4.5m Artsmark to schools across the country for the next three years. Artsmark enable...Arts Industry22.3.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/doran-get-rsc/463The director Gregory Doran is to succeed Michael Boyd as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, it was announced today. He will take over in September. Boyd and executive director Vikki Heywood have announced they will leave at the en...Arts Industry22.3.2012http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/latest-news/aeolus-lands/476  This is Aeolus, an acoustic wind pavilion that landed this week at Canary Wharf in East London. It is the work of Bristol sculptor Luke Jerram, a structure which sings as the breeze passes through it thanks to the harp strings attached to 310 stainles...Arts Industry29.3.2012