McPhee’s unforgettable Orgreave images
Today is the 34thanniversary of the Battle of Orgreave, the confrontation between police and pickets at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire and a pivotal event in the miners’ strike of 1984-85.
Great art in the classroom
More than 70,000 schoolchildren from 125 schools are to get world class works of art in their classrooms as part of the largest ever sculpture project undertaken in Britain.
TaitMail Bilbao’s King Gugg
It’s almost 21 years since the Guggenheim Bilbao opened, controversially and changing museum aspiration for ever. It was paid for by the Basque government, looked like nothing anyone had ever seen before, and after it opened every city wanted one.
Summer Flight
Peckham artist Remi Rough has created a new public art installation to welcome visitors to the transformed Wembley Park this summer www.wembleypark.com.
Producer Winter switches West End for Tunbridge Wells
Carole Winter, the West End and Broadway producer with more than 30 shows to her name, is to be the permanent producer at Tunbridge Wells’s Assembly Hall Theatre.
Opera festival’s moving Hope for Grenfell gala
Gareth Malone led a choir of almost 200 children and local residents and celebrities last night in a moving memorial concert at Investec Opera Holland Park to mark the first anniversary of the Grenfell disaster.
Ed Vaizey and Tom Watson to be Achates judges
The third Achates Philanthropy Prize, awarded for first-time cultural giving in the UYK,is to have former culture minister Ed Vaizey and shadow culture secretary Tom Watson as judges.
Guide for museums to diversify visitors
Arts Council England and the Museums Association have launched a new ‘how-to’ guide to help museums increase visitor diversity
Top Scottish arts organisation in shock closure
NVA blames loss of funding and strains of ambitious restoration plan
Sadiq’s £1.1b cultural vision for Olympic Park
The Mayor of London has set out plans for East Bank, the new cultural sector in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in the East End, with the BBC being added to the mix.
Lost Donizetti opera gets world premiere
On July 18, Opera Rara and the Royal Opera House will present the first ever performance of an opera by the great Italian composer, 179 years after it was written. Simon Tait reports
ACE backs fundraisers scheme
Arts Council England and the Institute of Fundraising have joined forces to develop more arts fundraisers in the sector.
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