Visual Arts
Past, present, future - which way heritage?
Heritage. It’s what Britain does best. We are famous for it. Brand Britain and heritage are synonymous. Stately homes; crumpets…
Urban Art: coming to a place near you
With the increasing acceptance and popularity of the phenomenon commonly labelled ‘Urban Art’, such approaches to the realm of artistic…
Homeless art
In an effort to combat many of the problems associated with the state of homelessness in modern Britain, the medium…
Watch this space
British audiences across the economic spectrum have a wealth of great art and performance literally at their fingertips. And one…
Creativity in the classroom
Children across the UK will learn their arts ABC’s from an army of volunteer practitioners when Big Arts Week rolls…
After a month of argument and scandal the Scottish arts needs to regroup
Over the past month the arts in Scotland have been embroiled in an increasingly heated argument about the way in…
The British-Indian cultural exchange
Arts Hub's Stephen Rhys offers a careful examination of Indian and British life as they stand today as evidence of…
Is digital switchover a political and logistical catch 22?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past six years you could hardly fail not to have noticed…
Designing for the 21st Century – A call for proposals
The most recent Creative Industries Mapping document estimated that design-related activity within the UK employed one million people in around…
Queer as folk art
Throughout history, art has been used as a driving force behind political activism and as a catalyst for social change…