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Professor HUA DONG is to join London's Royal College of Art (RCA) as head of the school's longest-running research centre.
The government has pushed back against concerns from major cultural and heritage charities, who say that the introduction of ...
The rate of decline in entries for GCSE arts subjects is showing signs of plateauing after 15 years of steep decline, according to an analysis of today's results by the Campaign for the Arts. Although ...
ANNA BERENTZEN has been named the first Jerwood associate artist, at ThickSkin, as the Wigan theatre company lays the ...
An auction of dozens of guitars donated by bands such as Oasis, New Order, and Elbow will be used to generate funding for a new scheme designed to support musicians from Greater Manchester with their ...
Dr Clive Gray of the University of Warwick assesses how local government cultural services in the UK have transformed over the last fifty years.
Manchester's "original 19th-century home of literature and learning" profited from the transatlantic slave trade and individuals connected to it, research funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund ...
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has named Dr DAVID MCMENEMY the inaugural chair of a ...
A projected £15 million building project aimed at honouring the late comedian and actor Ken Dodd has been cancelled after ...
A year-long pay dispute between Welsh National Opera (WNO) and its chorus members has come to an end after the company ...
A pledge by the BBC to guarantee musicians in its performing groups a 'tutti' salary of more than £40,000 will “set an ...
Playwrights working under the Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) and UK Theatre's collective agreement are to enjoy a 3% ...