Next year will mark the culmination of the Public Catalogue Foundation’s ambitious project to photograph the nation’s entire collection of oil paintings. These paintings are being shown on the BBC website. As Andrew Ellis, the PCF’s Director, explains this project will reveal to the world the UK’s extraordinary art collection.
A week is a long time in politics, as the achingly weary old cliché goes. But it’s no time at all in the history of the National Lottery, which is seventeen years old in November. And did you know, each and every week it raises an eye-watering £28 million for good causes? That’s around £3,000…
In the latest update from the DCMS Jerwood Creative Bursaries Scheme, Anna Bergström gets a taste of what her fellow graduates have experienced at a special event at the Manchester International Festival.
Dinah Caine, CEO of Skillset and Chair of the Creative Industries Council (CIC) Skillset Skills Group discusses the big skills questions facing the creative industries.
Larry Godfrey is a GB international archer who competed at the Athens and Beijing Olympics and is hoping to compete at London 2012.
I‘ve heard it said that anyone who believes that ‘you can’t take it with you’ has obviously never packed a car for a family camping holiday. In the same vein, the person who said ‘you can’t be too careful’ has clearly never tried to put on a fund raiser in a community hall or organise…
Rosy Greenlees, Executive Director of the Crafts Council, on the relevance and timeliness of the Crafts Council’s new exhibition with the V&A – Power of Making.
Tim Hollingsworth, Chief Executive of the British Paralympic Association (BPA) shares his excitement for the Paralympics.
Meeting famous artists, installing seven-tonne spheres and producing collaborations between opera companies and prisons – it’s been all in a day’s work for Andrea Rowbotham since joining the DCMS Jerwood Creative Bursaries Scheme. Here, she gives us the lowdown on her first six months on a placement with the Dartington Hall Trust.
So how was bank holiday Monday for you, eh? Manage to get away? Day trip somewhere?
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