Name your lottery good cause
The government has asked the public to help shape National Lottery Good Causes funding by nominating their own good causes.
Plymouth’s ‘jewel’ Box wins £120k Museum of the Year prize
Plymouth’s museum, art gallery and archive, The Box, has won this year’s Art Fund Museum of the Year award, at £120,000 the world’s largest museum prize.
Judi Dench gets her own theatre
The Shaftesbury Theatre, the largest independent theatre in the West End, is to be renamed the Judi Dench Theatre in honour of the actress’s “unparalleled contribution to British theatre and the performing arts”.
Birthday honours in the arts
Congratulations to:
David Hockney dies at 88
Britain’s best known and most influential contemporary artist, David Hockney, has died aged 88.
Beryl Cook exceeds targets for Plymouth’s Box
Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy, which celebrated the centenary of the birth of the Plymouth-born artist, exceeded its visitor target by almost 30,000, The Box announced today.
Airey to chair ACE
Dawn Airey, currently deputy chair of Channel 4, is to succeed Nicholas Serota as chair of Arts Council England (ACE), taking up the post on August 1 for an initial four-year term.
ACE scraps 10-year programme after Hodge recommendation
Arts Council England is abandoning its ten-year Let’s Create strategy halfway through in accordance with recommendations in the Hodge Report resulting from her DCMS commissioned independent review of ACE.
TAITMAIL Unseating the chair?
The dogs are out for Misan Harriman, the Southbank Centre’s chair, demanding his resignation.
The Art of Photojournalism: Image of the Month
World Cup Final, 1966. Wembley, England. 30th July, photographer unknown
