Visual Arts
A marriage of art and social science - Part 1
Tom Cockburn is a social scientist at the University of Bradford who together with colleague Rory Francis – an artist…
Art and the City
Critics love it and hate it by turn. Contemporary art, that is. The only time it is likely to be…
Coffee and Cultureshock
It's the first day of the last month of spring, and summer is definitely in the air in Melbourne -…
New compositions for Huddersfield
Next month, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival celebrates 25 years of bringing cutting-edge classical music to Britain's shores. Artistic Director…
Art, medicine, and the corpse
A spate of anatomical-based art exhibitions in recent years have sparked controversy over issues surrounding the public display of human…
The State of Youth Arts
Director of the London Youth Arts Network, Anne Engel, takes time out from the hectic schedule of the first Festival…
Children embrace Creative Partnerships
When poet Bob Beagrie joined other artists to collaborate with a group of boys at Tollesby special school in Middlesbrough,…
Musical Theatre joins International Festivals
One of the world’s oldest and most loved art forms is about to experience its first ever festival, an international…
Artists take refuge
Two years ago, Artistic Director Caryne Chapman Clark had a dream to start a theatrical organisation for refugee artists in…
Agriculture Crisis, or Culture Crisis?
The English countryside is not what it used to be. Faced with the reality the rural industry might soon be…