Museums and Art Galleries

Bold blocks of colour, searing images in words - abstract painter Sir Terry Frost and Spanish poet Lorca had a lot in common... [read more] […]

Drawings by Moebius, HR Giger and Chris Foss will feature alongside work by three international contemporary artists in a new exhibition at Plymouth Arts Centre this spring... [read more] […]

Shells, wire, plastic bags and old toys are just some of the materials being used by a group of artists who make art out of what other people might consider rubbish... [read more] […]

Visitors to a Cornish attraction will be taken on a journey back in time, courtesy of some 19th-century artefacts... [read more] […]

You can’t help but spend time looking at a drawing by Cornish artist Jon Tremaine – there’s just so much to  see... [read more] […]

Actor James Purefoy hits cinema screens this Friday as sword wielding puritan hero ‘Solomon Kane’ but last night (16 February) he surprised theatre-goers at London’s Soho Theatre by manning the box office. He was there to help celebrate A Night Less Ordinary – a scheme which is giving away more than half a million free theatre tickets to under 26 year olds i […]

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Theatres across England and stars of stage and screen are backing Arts Council England’s A Night Less Ordinary scheme as it celebrates its first anniversary. […]

Arts Council England has made a seventh round of awards from its Sustain fund for organisations under pressure as a result of the recession. […]

Arts Council England today (26 January 2009) announced the appointment of 152 people to write assessments on the artistic work of its regularly funded organisations. […]

Arts Council gives budding musicians a helping hand with online tutorials […]

Arts Council England today (19 January 2010) launched Achieving great art for everyone - a consultation on future priorities for the arts.  The results of the consultation will inform a ten-year strategic framework and the Arts Council’s future investment decisions. […]

Over 500 leading artists, entrepreneurs, cultural leaders and policy makers will meet today (14 January 2010) to discuss the future of the arts in England. […]

Arts Council England today announced the appointment of Jim Tough as Area Executive Director, North. The appointment is the final one to its new Executive Board – the streamlined national leadership team that will lead the re-structured organisation from April 2010. […]

As previously announced, Arts Council England will suspend applications to its Grants for the arts programme for a period of six weeks between Monday 18 January and Friday 26 February. […]