Five UK museums are competing for the title of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016. Photographer Rankin took portraits of the teams behind the entries The winners will be announced at an award cere...
From shooting music videos for John Lennon to filming life-sized documentaries in space, Toni Myers talks about her eclectic career in film “It was the rock and roll 60s, we were all kids. It...
Spoken word is expressive and free, enabling performers to speak openly and honestly about issues in a controlled and safe environment Spoken word (or performance poetry as it’s also known) h...
From Thursday 12pm BST we will be hosting a panel discussion at the Continue conference about the untapped value of games to the cultural establishment Miss the live stream? Watch the discussion ...
Archaeology classrooms are becoming more representative, but we need practitioners with more varied backgrounds and perspectives As a British Asian woman, I am one of a small handful of black, ...
Big or small, interactive art is about making allowances for time, responding to space – and always looking after the audience We at Home Live Art (HLA) specialise in producing site-specific...
From jargon busting to getting started, London Sinfonietta, the National Holocaust Centre and more share their tips for good R&D As the £7m Digital R&D Fund for the Arts runs its course after...
Tate Modern will show more women’s art and Freelands Foundation’s £100,000 award for female artists marks progress, but there is more work to be done Nowadays there are more than twice as ...
The @52museums Instagram project sees a different international museum take over the account for each week of 2016, engaging museum-goers around their award-winning collections and buildings Con...
Videogames speak culture with ever increasing fluency, but cultural policy doesn’t speak much videogame (yet) A year ago, we opened the National Videogame Arcade (NVA). We made a statement, ...
Kate Bryan, Tamara Rojo and Elizabeth Freestone among those joining scheme to help bring on the next generation of women leaders in the arts University Women in the Arts is a new scheme to ment...
Marian Goodell talks about the 75,000 person-strong experiment in temporary community, from litter and leadership to fundraising and festival culture WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT BURNING MAN? B...
Bill Bailey’s ability to blend music with comedy has made him one of Britain’s most eclectic standups. He explains where it all went right At a small pub in Bath in the early 80s, a goatee-...
From procurement in Kent to a tourism levy in Liverpool, local authorities are finding ways to sustain libraries and museums. The Arts Council is here to help The single biggest challenge facin...
Connecting with staff around a coherent brand strategy can improve happiness, productivity and collaboration What’s your biggest expense but also your biggest asset? Staff. So how are you goi...
From illustration to innovation, more than 60 of the design world’s rising stars have been picked to present their work in One Year On , an exhibition for designers and artists in their first y...
From interning to making yourself indispensable, some of this year’s Creative & Cultural Skills awards winners share their arts sector career tips Music Skills award winner Continue reading.....
Yasmin Khan highlights the key points from a recent event where power, patriarchy and gender politics were taken on More than 130 museum professionals crammed into the Imperial War Museum’s a...
The Guardian’s professional networks are delighted to announce our competition for a fully-funded place at the Henley Business School The Guardian’s professional networks and Henley Busines...
I fought to keep my local museum open for the staff, volunteers, community, and children – but my voice was ignored Austerity has killed my museum. I was a volunteer for two and a half years,...
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