Disabled artists to get widest audience via Southbank
Disabled artists are to get a global audience for the first time in January with the Southbank’s Unlimited festival.
Rules eased for drink sales in music venues
The government has announced that alcohol sales will be permitted for music venues in England’s Tier 2 regions.
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Wenceslas Square, Prague, 17th November 1989, by Brian Harris
Wembley switches Christmas on
A 24-metre high Christmas tree – Aurora Park – was lit up last night in Wembley Park.
TAITMAIL Free the freelancers
The Comprehensive Spending Review isn’t comprehensive and it doesn’t spend: it’s selective and it only promises to do things, mostly cut. One word is particularly missing from Rishi Sunak’s statement this week: freelance.
Thames Estuary becomes festival venue
The Thames Estuary is to host a large scale festival celebrating the history and culture of the riverside from Tilbury to Southend-on-Sea.
90-year-old novice potter gets first show
Colin Anderson, who threw his first pot on his own wheel on his 90th birthday in January, is to have his work shown in an online exhibition.
Freelances left out in cold in spending review
Self-employed freelance workers, the backbone of the creative industries, have been ignored in the Spending Review announced today by the Chancellor.
THE WORD To survive, the arts must tackle inequality of opportunity
To combat the corrosive effects of racism, exclusion and Covid-19, the cultural sector needs to act now, says Maria Adebowale-Schwarte, CEO of the Foundation for Future London
Hockney portrait returns to Covent Garden
The David Hockney portrait of its former general director that was sold last month by the Royal Opera House is going back – courtesy of Covent Garden’s new chairman.
Music PR guru Dvora Lewis dies
Dvora Lewis, known as the “godmother of music PRs”, has died of a heart attack, her family has announced.
Kaarina Meyer 1946-2020
The music manager Kaarina Meyer has died of cancer aged 74 after more than 40 years in the business.
Bloomin' Father Christmas is back
For many the image of Father Christmas is the one drawn for thousands of children by Raymond Briggs for his best-selling books, and now he’s back.
Queen’s masterpieces stripped from palace walls
Works by Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Canaletto, highlights of the royal collection, have been removed from Buckingham Palace’s Picture Gallery, one of the state rooms, so that it can be refurbished.
Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom to get ‘lifeline’ facelift
The Blackpool Tower Ballroom, a mecca for formal dancing, is to get a £764,000 facelift thanks to the government's Culture Recovery Fund.
60% of museums ‘may not survive pandemic’
Almost two-thirds of museums and galleries fear they may not survive the pandemic crisis, according to a new Art Fund survey.
London unveils street art galleries
For decades host to nests of art galleries, the exclusive districts of Mayfair and Belgravia are to become an outdoor art gallery.
Banned Belarus theatre wins human rights award
Belarus Free Theatre, which we highlighted in August as the only national theatre to be banned by its country’s government, has won the Magnitsky Prize for courage under fire.
British Library acquires unknown medieval psalter
A hitherto unknown copy of the psalms from the 1480s has been acquired by the British Library.
£3m race to create Festival UK 2022
More than 500 arts and technology practitioners have been selected as parts of 30 consortia to bid to create the Festival UK* 2022.
Philanthropy prize morphs to salute art’s community work
The Achates Philanthropy Prize, launched five years ago to recognise small and imaginative examples of arts sponsorship, has reformed this year to recognise the work of arts organisation in communities affected by Covid.
Hall sisters in online Tempest
Two of Sir Peter Hall’s daughters, Jenny and Rebecca, are to join forces for an online reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
MY STORY Online drama that is a cry against homelessness and mental health ignorance
The actor and writer Nell Hardy is to perform her own powerful and disturbing one-character play, NoMad, which is based on her own experiences of homelessness and psychiatric hospitalisation, in a live stream from Greenwich Theatre on November 27, supported by Tramshed’s Progression Programme of Artist Development.
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