Visual Arts
Say less, mean more
Earlier this month the Arts Council of Northern Ireland launched its Public Art Handbook for Northern Ireland but is it…
Everything old is new again
The world's oldest and most lionised contemporary art show, the Venice Biennale, has delivered a 51st installment of precedent setting…
Florida Defrocked
Richard Florida's Rise of the Creative Class was published in 2002. Since then, in between speaking engagements, he has written…
Thinking Big: the conceptual background to strategy, marketing and planning
Arts Hub UK is pleased to bring you a contribution from one of this country's experts on audience development and…
Charitable Instincts
Increasingly, art and artists are being used as financial tools for charity groups and organizations. Charity art is any art…
Art for the Market’s Sake?
Even the most idealistic and independent artists in the US must rely more and more on private sources of funding…
Art in China – the lotus is in bloom
That China will become the next world superpower has been the argument of economists for decades, and few now doubt…
An Ancient Prejudice: Women Artists and the Struggle for Equality
In 1989, New York feminist collective The Guerrilla Girls dared to ask the question, 'Do women have to be naked…
Creative Clusters Conference 2005: Unlocking the secrets of a creative economy
The creative and cultural industries are now big business. Sources suggest that, creative industries in the UK are growing twice…
Is it war on terror or war on the arts?
Last year, Arts Hub UK carried the story of US citizen Steve Kurtz, a Buffalo University Professor of Art, who…