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Tag Archives: art
Did the Culture Recovery Fund actually work?
Yes, on the whole – if you’re a large institution… Read my full Telegraph report here
Posted in Art, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged art, arts, covid, culture recovery fund, freelance, freelancer, freelancers make theatre work, funding, government, jazz, jazz club, london, music, pandemic, paule constable, play, royal albert hall, telegraph, theatre, west end
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‘Galleries are safe, but visitors need to feel that’: can the Royal Academy survive without funding?
Axel Rüger, secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy, is “cautiously optimistic” about this week’s vaccine news. “We live in hope every day that this vaccine will work.” Read my full Telegraph article here
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Tagged art, axel ruger, christmas, covid, december, exhibition, finance, funding, gallery, government, interview, london, museum, royal academy, telegraph, vaccine, visitors
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Can the Tate galleries survive in an era of mass Covid fear?
There are very few winners in the Government’s draconian new tier system, which has forced closures of arts venues in the new Tier 3 and placed capacity caps on those in Tiers 1 and 2. But Helen Legg, director of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Journalism
Tagged 2021, art, christmas, covid, december, gallery, government, helen legg, interview, liverpool, museum, tate, tate liverpool, telegraph, tier 2, tier 3, tier system, vaccine
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Grayson Perry’s uplifting lockdown art exhibition cancelled – thanks to lockdown
The new, more restrictive tier system has created a high-stakes national lottery for arts venues. Land in tier 3, and your luck is out: no galleries or museums are allowed to open at all. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Art, Journalism, TV
Tagged Alistair Hudson, art, cancelled, channel 4, christmas, closed, covid, december, exhibition, gallery, grayson perry, graysons art club, interview, lockdown, manchester, Manchester Art Gallery, museum, telegraph, tier 3, tv, Whitworth
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Public cash for billionaires? The questions hanging over Oliver Dowden’s Cultural Recovery Fund
This week saw some succour for the arts. The award of £257 million in grants to British organisations has finally been announced. This money will come from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, and it’s designed to tide businesses over … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged art, arts, arts council, boris johnson, comedy, coronavirus, culture, David Ross, dcms, freelancer, freelancers, Frog and Bucket, funding, funds, government, grant, grants, img artists, london palladium, mission mars, money, music, nevill holt opera, oliver dowden, pandemic, Paradigm Agency, reopening, rescue fund, rescue package, secret cinema, select committee, social distancing, telegraph, theatre, west end, wigmore hall
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Preludes, Southwark Playhouse
Where does music come from? That’s the vital question posed to Sergei Rachmaninoff in Dave Malloy’s extraordinary 2015 chamber work, as the great late-Romantic Russian composer – stuck in his third year of harrowing writer’s block – tries to relocate his gift. It comes … Continue reading
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Tagged alex sutton, art, artist, chekhov, composer, concerto, dahl, dave malloy, depression, failure, hypnotherapy, keith ramsay, london, mental health, mind, music, musical, musician, pianist, piano, prelude, preludes, rachel chavkin, rachmaninoff, rebecca caine, review, russia, southwark playhouse, symphony, theartsdesk, theatre, therapy, writer, writers block
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London’s Top 10 family-friendly theatres
Continuing our London Theatre Guides series, we’re celebrating half-term by highlighting some of the capital’s most welcome and exciting venues for younger audiences. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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Tagged activity, art, baby, backstage, best, birthday party, broadwayworld, cafe, child, children, class, dancing, education, family, family friendly, film, free, fun, garden, half term, holiday, kids, london, music, musical, national theatre, orchestra, parent, play, playground, puppet, puppetry, school, show, singing, song, theatre, theatre guide, toddler, top 10, tour, toys, workshop, young, young audience, youth theatre
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Home Futures, The Favourite, Michelle Obama and inspiring libraries
In my February MoveTo Town and Country Arts pages: Exhibition Avant-garde visions in Home Futures at the Design Museum Film A right royal romp in award-winning The Favourite Theatre Sondheim reborn in the sensational musical Company Commuter corner Candid reflections from Michelle Obama … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Dance, Fiction, Film, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged architecture, art, article, arts, becoming, best, best libraries, book, book tickets, buy art, circus, cirque eloize, commute, commuter, company, cosi fan tutte, dance, design museum, exhibition, february, film, gallery, home, home futures, hotel, house, libraries, london libraries, magazine, march, michelle obama, moveto, moveto town and country, movie, mozart, museum, musical, olivia colman, opera, oscars, parallax art fair, peacock theatre, read, royal opera house, sondheim, the favourite, theatre, things to do, visit london, west end, white house
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Renaissance rivals, A Star is Born, and The Height of the Storm
On my November MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Exhibition Brothers-in-law Mantegna and Bellini offer competing Renaissance visions at the National Gallery Film Lady Gaga impresses in the latest incarnation of A Star is Born Theatre Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce lead Florian Zeller’s The Height … Continue reading
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Tagged a star is born, art, book, bradley cooper, commute, commuter, eileen atkins, exhibition, film, florian zeller, gallery, jonathan pryce, lady gaga, london, magazine, mantegna and bellini, moveto, moveto town and country, movie, national gallery, novel, paris echo, play, read, renaissance, sebastian faulks, the height of the storm, visit london, west end, wyndhams theatre
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