Legacy art commissions from IWM’s WWI movie blockbuster
Income from the Imperial War Museum’s 14-18-NOW film by director Peter Jackson, They Shall Not Grow Old, is to fund art commissions across the country.
Rees-Mogg may scrap Arts Council
Arts Council England and other national cultural organisations face being abolished as Jacob Rees-Mogg turns his attention to arm’s length government funded bodies in his review of government efficiency.
Dacs chief takes over at Whitechapel
The new director of the Whitechapel Gallery is to be Gilane Tawadros, the CEO of Dacs, the guardian of artists’ copyright.
Nightingale Museum defies closure fears to reopen
The Florence Nightingale Museum in St Thomas’s Hospital, London, which more than two years ago closed its doors with fears that it might never be able to open again, reopened yesterday on what would have been Nightingale’s 202nd birthday.
TAITMAIL Museums of the Community Age
“Why can’t we sit in a comfy armchair, drink coffee and chat while we look at art?” Kenneth Hudson liked to posit. “Why do we have to treat a visit to the museum as if it were a sepulchre where you have to stand in silence and awe?”
Museum of the Year 2022 shortlist of five
Five museums from Derby, London, Manchester, Oxford and Wrexham nave made it to the shortlist for the £100,000 2022 Art Fund Museum gif the Year award.
£23m for communities' cultural rebuild
Cultural organisations across England will share £22.7m from the Arts Council’s Cultural Investment Programme to help them reset and prepare for development after the Covid lockdowns.
McBrinn leaves Clean Break for Dublin’s Gate
Joint artistic director and CEO Róisín McBrinn is leaving Clean Break Theatre after eight years with the company to become artistic director at the Gate, Dublin.
Ukrainian artist wins Royal Society portrait award
Ukrainian-born painter Tania Rivilis has won the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual award.
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Parole beer, Wakefield, 2nd May 1953, by Thurston Hopkins for Picture Post
Alan Sparrow on Thurston Hopkins
TAITMAIL Munnings, riding back into the light
We get cynical joy out of taking apart the characters of great artists, and usually we wait until they are dead before we lay open their dark sides: Caravaggio, Turner, Millais, Eric Gill.
Historic £6m endows musicals professor
A £6m donation from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation will fund a new professorship for the Royal Academy of Music.
Swallow to leave Courtauld
Deborah Swallow, who spearheaded the biggest development in the Courtauld Institute’s history, is to retire as its director after 18 years in the post.
Davidson-Houston to be Glyndebourne’s new MD
Richard Davidson-Houston, Glyndebourne’s director of audience development, is to be the opera house’s new managing director.
Doran steps down at RSC
Gregory Doran has stood down as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company with immediate effect after 35 years with the company and ten years at its head.
TAITMAIL The Metal in a new city’s culture
On March 1 Southend-on-Sea became a city, completing a 20-year campaign by its MP David Amess. Its qualification for city status is obscure: it has no cathedral or university, the customary prerequisites, and mostly getting cityhood does little more than feed local pride.
Actors’ Benevolent Fund under investigation
The Actors’ Benevolent Fund is under investigation by the Charity Commission over concerns about its governance.
British Museum urged to halt new BP deal
The British Museum has been urged by a panel of scientists and climate experts to abandon plans for a renewed sponsorship deal with BP.
Rachel Thomas to be Hayward’s chief curator
Rachel Thomas, head of exhibitions at Irish Museum of Modern Art for 20 years, is to be the chief curator at the Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre.
Phillipson, Pollard, Ryan and Sin Wai Kin up for Liverpool’s Turner Prize
Four artists have been selected for the Turner Prize shortlist this year: Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin.
MY STORY Kyrgizstan culture’s world premiere
Janet Rady, curator of the Kyrgyz Republic Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale
Covid bringing new audiences to music
A report for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra shows that Covid lockdowns, while starving orchestras and musicians of much needed income, have driven new audiences to classical music.
Throwing a new light
Three lighthouses around the UK coast have been transformed by the light artist Claire Luxton in a partnership with Hendrick’s Gin.
ALRA goes bust
The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts - ALRA – has declared itself “no longer financially viable” and has closed both its campuses in Wandsworth and Wigan with immediate effect.
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