TAITMAIL Don’t frighten the Hodge
Margaret Hodge is worried, she told the Commons culture select committee last week.
AI PROFILE: The Big idea that’s getting creativity into higher education
Creativity and the arts have been notoriously missing from the UK schools curriculum. To help tackle the problem, SACHA CORCORAN opened a creative arts sixth form college in Walthamstow, Big Creative Academy, founded 12 years ago and in 2021 opened in its own building at a cost of £21m. She is its principal. It now has 450 pupils aged 16 to 19 specialising in the creative arts, and is open to more.
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
A Portrait of Evil, 5th May 1981, Daily Express, by John Rogers
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
‘Superman Catch’ by David Ashdown for The Independent, Trent Bridge, August 27 2005
TAITMAIL City of Culture - ‘Now we feel we come from somewhere’
During its year as the UK’s City of Culture in 2025 Bradford’s railway station decorated its gates with poems by young Bradfordians. One, by a schoolgirl called Iqra Khan, ends with: "I come from hope/I come from Bradford."
But is hope all that Bradford can look to after its frantic year of demonstrating its integration and creativity?
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
The advent of television, Daily Mail, by Frank Rust
TAITMAIL Playing the last ACE
So, another shape-shifting swerve in the tortuous 80-year history of the Arts Council. But the Arts Council Margaret Hodge envisages in her review published this week is not the Arts Council of Darren Henley, certainly, nor even of John Maynard Keynes.
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
St Paul's Cathedral, 29 December 1940, by Herbert Mason, Daily Mail
TAITMAIL Future arts funding: ‘Good people talking’…
“We need to stress the importance of philanthropy to museums and universities in particular.
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
Wenceslas Square, Prague, 24 November 1989, The Independent
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
The Rowe Sisters, Daily Mail, Paris 1929, by Victor Console
TaitMail The nationalisation of art
When Neil Macgregor was director of the National Gallery in the 1990s he had a complete and intricately devised rehang, bringing out some of the less well-known pictures from the reserve collection instead of just highlighting the best known as before, and with labels challenging the viewers. “You have to make the public work a bit” he said. “What’s the point if they’re not engaged?”
